Is this political correctness gone mad?
By RieRie
@RieRie (820)
November 3, 2006 12:30pm CST
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=414098&in_page_id=1770
That's the link to the story if you'd like to read it, basically in part of East London they're not doing bonfire night, instead they're doing a weird bengali folk tale. What do you think, for those who don't know about bonfire night and guy fawkes it's a 400 year old English tradition.
I personally think that if they don't want to celebrate guy fawkes night, they should have stayed in whatever country they came from.
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@dorypanda (1601)
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17 Nov 06
Errrrm, what? So English people living in England can't celebrate an English tradition in case it upsets non-English people. Hmmmm, how does that work then? Why should people in England have to listen to some foreign story telling, we've got our own history, as a matter of fact we've got lots of it! So, why exactly did that have to happen? I don't actually think it's foreign people that have a problem with it, I think it's the political correctness brigade, you know white middle class English men with nothing better to do than ponder their own belly buttons, you know the ones, I bet they sit there in their offices saying...'hmmmm, I wonder who us English may have upset this year? What can we do about it? Oh, I know, we'll get rid of Bonfire night, I think that foreigners would get upset about that'. I mean, what are they going to do next? Cancel Christmas!
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@pumpkinjam (8876)
• United Kingdom
17 Nov 06
Didn't they try cancelling Christmas last year? Well, all the signs were saying "winterfest" which is fine in a way because that's what the time of year was before Christmas was invented but why shouldn't we be allowed to just say Christmas when we mean Christmas?
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@dorypanda (1601)
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18 Nov 06
Did they really do that? That's stupid, why can't Christmas be Christmas in a Christian country? That's really daft that is.
@pumpkinjam (8876)
• United Kingdom
3 Nov 06
I didn't read the article. I kind of get the gyst from what you said. I agree with you. Well, if people don't want to celebrate bonfire night, they don't have to but I don't think there should be a foreign celebration instead. That's not political correctness, that's racism AGAINST England and our history.
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@nannacroc (4049)
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16 Nov 06
I can only say I agree with you. There's too much burying of our history because it upsets others. I realise some of it is not to be proud of but if people don't know it how will they learn from it?
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