Wednesday, January 17, 2007

UK big brother contestant

Bollywood yesterday whent into almost riot over racism in big Brother. An indian contestant was being called racail slurs and humiliating names such as a dog, or simply calling her the indian. What is most suprising to me is that none of this racism was edited out before the episodes aired. I as does the rest of bollywood and hopefully minorities such as myself should feel angered that the channel actully whent ahead and aired the uncut scenes. The act in airing the episode as is almost says the station condones or is ignorant of what happens. Charles Dunstone, the chief executive of Carphone Warehouse, the company which owns the show, stated that the firm is in no way for racism. What is most disturbing is how ignorant the other contestants where to say such things as " Do you live in a house or a shack?", "that Indians were thin because they were always ill as a result of undercooking food.". Could this be attributed to the way indians as a whole are showed in the mainstream media. Where the only image the public in general see's the poor side. Where in shows like the amazing race all that is seen is what we in the US call Ghetto's. While the country may not be the richest of all countries I as can others testify that all of the country is not poor and most of the country is literate. In fact 50 to 69% is literate. In fact Indias economy is among the fastest in the world at a growth rate of 9.2% GPD. ( refrenced from Wikipedia)
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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2551921,00.html

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