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Originally Posted by Damien
Well I need to see the entire transcript but the articles allege that he is feels it is inappropriate for there to be multi-ethnic characters in the show because it's the 'last bastion of Englishness' as well as it's not common to see multi-ethnic village communities.
While I don't have an issue with the argument that such villages are not common I do have an issue that those villages would somehow not be English.
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You're drawing that conclusion for yourself, you have no idea what he really meant.
He may be referring to, as mentioned earlier, the picture postcard/biscuit tin version of an English village. Cricket on the village green, tea and sandwiches.
To much of the world that is the image conjured up when you mention English village, all he is doing is manufacturing that last bastion of Englishness.
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Unless he was misquoted I can't see how you can draw any other conclusion than he meant anything else.
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Well I've just drawn another conclusion from it.
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As for the 'chip on my shoulder' I think that is unfair. I am simply expressing a view you disagree with. Would rather you debate that view and the points I raise instead of raising assertions about me which, I believe, are untrue. Your post comes across a lot more aggressive than mine did after all.
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I say that because you are starting your assumptions from the position of he's racist because of either your background or beliefs, I don't think you are starting from an objective position
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Not everyone who isn't white is a Muslim. Muslims in villages would be much less common than, say, Black Britons.
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I don't know the percentages but as I recall ethnic minorities are still very much the minority in this country.
Given that most minoritieslive in cities, and in some areas they are actually the majority, I can safely assume that as you move out of the city and into the villages the minority is extremely minor - to non-existent.
I live in West Yorkshire nr Halifax. Halifax has a very large ethnic community, as soon as you come out of town where those communities are, and it into the surrounding villages, you don't see hardly any black or brown faces.
Just a fact, nothing else.