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Not a good advert for Multicultural Britain.....

posted 16 years ago by pr65
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This film portrays multicultural areas of Britain basically as....a toilet. White people are portrayed as having no culture other than drugs and petty crime; Asians much the same. Both 'cultures' (abandoned peoples used for cheap labour) seem quite racist towards each other, if anything the Asians seem more racist towards the whites than the other way around. All in all a realistic portrayal from my own experience. But what does it tell us about modern Britain? Quite simply that it is a failed society, failed by it's left-wing politicians and the liberal political elite who invariably live either in gated communities in urban areas - or in 100% white crime-free quaint English villages...

Of course the ending is a sop the viewer, a feel-good fantasy to take the bad taste from the mouth (the worst for me is the baby girl being taken back to her drug-addict mother). In the real Britain this does not happen. In fact it is much, much worse..... Depressing.

[–] keshav7732 13 years ago

Mate, first of all I am from Leeds - a similar area to Beeston although not as run-down (Harehills). That's the whole point of the film - they are showing a run down area! Their showing that there is trash from both communities, the Asian and the English.

You seem a little Biased yourself there pal - the film is basically showing racial segregation but at the end the families are becoming closer especially when the young Asian lad makes a friend with the young white girl.

Your reference to 'small white villages with no crime' is an irrelevant remark. What about places like Hull, Malton, York full of white English people and they are full of crime?

Your talking about segregation yet you seem to be wanting segregation by some of your comments there. Foremost - it is a film! The events in the film are exagerrated (I have been around Beeston where the film is shot - and trust me there is no women selling their kids for an ounce of crack cocaine). All in all it is supposed to be a light hearted comedy, the actors are great (yes they are actors not real people), and it is a fairly well directed film.

In general where I live In Leeds and Bradford (where this film is also shot) most whites, Asians, Blacks get on just fine - and there is no segregation at all.

[–] LovecraftAllanPoe 11 years ago

I'm from Hull, and whilst crime is rampant, it's not full of white English people at all: there's a healthy mix, just like Leeds.