http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090420/ap_on_re_eu/un_un_racism_conference
Ahmedinejad speaks the truth - and the west (as usual) doesn't like it. Where women have to give births at checkpoints, it is amazing that this country is respected by the west; a country that practices ritual assassination (Olmert had not ruled out the possibility of even taking out the Palestinian president), western hypocrisy stinks to high heaven. All these countries are seasoned killers, so human dignity mean nothing to them.
In India, the British government stood silently by while 3 million starved to death in 1943 - and they insist it was a good regime. In Orwell's novel, Burmese Days, we see the racist contempt that the British felt for the natives; and The World of Suzie Wong shows us that it was OK to have sex with a Chinese girl, but marrying one...simply not done, old chap. In Lawrence of Arabia, we see the present Israeli contempt for Arabs crystalising. When Lawrence excuses his ill-fitting uniform, he says that his had been stolen. The immediate response of the others is : "Wogs!"
My doctor friend in Britain says that they regard skin colour the way Muslims regard pigs. One of his patients told him to his face: "I don't mind coloured doctors, but my friends do".
Showing posts with label racism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label racism. Show all posts
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Friday, March 7, 2008
The Interpreter (fiction)
http://unlikelystories.org/sayeed0308.shtml
article at link above)
The theme of master and slave runs like a leitmotif through western civilization. This is the story of a Bengali-English interpreter, who has a clear vision of the relationship possible between white and non-white people – a relationship based on nothing more, or less, than work. (Some of the events recounted here, such as the segregation of the living quarters, are drawn from actual events.)
article at link above)
The theme of master and slave runs like a leitmotif through western civilization. This is the story of a Bengali-English interpreter, who has a clear vision of the relationship possible between white and non-white people – a relationship based on nothing more, or less, than work. (Some of the events recounted here, such as the segregation of the living quarters, are drawn from actual events.)
Friday, October 26, 2007
racism in england
A friend of mine is a doctor in England – a consultant, in fact. He came to Bangladesh a few months ago, and he told me that the English regard colour as Muslims regard the pig.
One of his patients came to him and said: "I don't mind coloured doctors, but my friends do."
He has to put up with such taunts regularly.
Another friend – also a doctor, but a Ph. D candidate at a prestigious university – says that he would never live in England because of the racism he has encountered.
My cousin's husband recently went to England to do his MBA, leaving his wife and new-born son behind. He planned to take them to England after finishing his MBA and getting a job.
He was little prepared for his experience there. Now he swears he will return because he doesn't want his son to go through what he has to go through.
One of his patients came to him and said: "I don't mind coloured doctors, but my friends do."
He has to put up with such taunts regularly.
Another friend – also a doctor, but a Ph. D candidate at a prestigious university – says that he would never live in England because of the racism he has encountered.
My cousin's husband recently went to England to do his MBA, leaving his wife and new-born son behind. He planned to take them to England after finishing his MBA and getting a job.
He was little prepared for his experience there. Now he swears he will return because he doesn't want his son to go through what he has to go through.
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