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moviez

Sep 26 2007, 05:47 AM

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India colonial tribute Britons get angry reception
http://uk.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUKDEL7682620070925

Indian authorities have warned a group of Britons visiting India to pay homage to British soldiers who died during the 1857 revolt against colonial rule, to stay away from a historic site due to protests.

Should these Britons be allowed to visit India and pay homage to British Soldiers who killed so many Indians ???

froglee

Oct 16 2007, 08:45 PM

QUOTE(moviez @ Sep 26 2007, 05:47 AM)

Should these Britons be allowed to visit India and pay homage to British Soldiers who killed so many Indians ???

Most Indians thank the British for colonizing them.

JuicyFruit

Oct 16 2007, 09:31 PM

QUOTE(froglee @ Oct 16 2007, 10:45 PM)

Most Indians thank the British for colonizing them.

Um... right.

Tenjikuronin

Oct 16 2007, 10:51 PM

QUOTE(froglee @ Oct 16 2007, 06:45 PM)

Most Indians thank the British for colonizing them.

Forglee, don't troll. This is your last verbal warning.

Yuyutsu

Oct 17 2007, 12:44 AM

The brit leader in this bus tour/adventure actually used the "equal equal" argument; that is, both Indians and Europeans were equally guilty of atrocities, etc, etc.

Anyway, I'm quite glad the UP Bhaiyas stoned their bus and had them confined to their hotel rooms. Sardar Patel managed to kick these clowns out, or otherwise our favorite Edwina lover would have turned India into a South Africa clone, with remnant white vigilante claiming nationhood with all the affected sentimentality of Katherine Mayo. These type of characters only understand one language.

Asia is only beginning to recover from the depredations of these white colonialists:

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On Colonial Experience and the Indian Renaissance: A Prolegomenon to a Project

Let me repeat what I said in my earlier column: colonialism is not merely a process of occupying lands and extracting revenues. It is not a question of encouraging us to ape the western countries in trying to be like them. It is not even about colonising the imaginations of a people by making them dream that they too will become 'modern', developed and sophisticated. It goes deeper than any of these. It is about denying the colonised peoples and cultures their own experiences; of making them aliens to themselves; of actively preventing any description of their own experiences except in terms defined by the colonisers.

froglee

Oct 17 2007, 07:20 PM

QUOTE(Tenjikuronin @ Oct 16 2007, 10:51 PM)

Forglee, don't troll. This is your last verbal warning.

Tenjikuronin, I love you.

Suijen

Oct 17 2007, 08:35 PM

Holy $hit, that's so Yakasuni shrine.

jiggyiggy

Oct 20 2007, 03:23 PM

Honestly, those ppl throwing crap at the bus are too touchy. That pretentious bastard probably liked the attention. It's better to treat an idiot as an idiot rather than be an idiot as well.

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