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Multicultural Britain

posted 9 years ago by southwestern71
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People go on about multicultural Britain which is true in the major population centres & nearby surrounding suburbs & towns & true to say over the last 30 years affluent British Asians have been moving to the shire counties but broadly speaking rural England is as homogenous as it was in the 1950’s yet the BBC drama "The Casual Vacancy" portrays the fictional village of Pagford which is firmly planted in rural England & allegedly based on real places such as Kelso, Painswick (where the series was partially filmed) & a conglomeration Newport Pagnell and Chagford as having a few inhabitants who though British born are obviously not of British decent. Would anyone living in rural England comment on how realistic this portrayal is or was the left wing BBC having a multicultural wet dream.

[–] ASaloka2010 9 years ago

That's quite a run-on sentence there..

The last Edward I read about had a crazy wife locked in the attic 

[–] southwestern71 9 years ago

Well spotted ASaloka2010 I was trying to out do Polish writer Jerzy Andrzejewski who in his 1960 novel The Gates of Paradise (Polish: Bramy raju) wrote 40,000 words in two sentences, with nearly no punctuation, making it an exercise in constrained writing. The second sentence contains only four words "And they marched all night" (I szli całą noc). The book tells the story of the Children's Crusade of 1212 trying to reach the Holy Land. However the sentence in my posting above from May 3rd 2015 consists of a paltry 135 words so Jerzy Andrzejewski needn’t worry. Maybe in my next posting I’ll try to out do Victor Hugo who in his novel Les Misérables wrote an 823 word sentence with 93 commas, 51 semicolons & 4 dashes. I’ll keep you posted.

[–] chicago85 9 years ago

William Faulkner was known for his long form sentences which were sometimes ungrammatical. I remember one was in "Light In August" but don't remember the length. Just that people all noted it. I think it ran at least a page and a half, maybe more.

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[–] Petit88 8 years ago

I didn`t see series but as i recall from the novel, only one family is of Pakistani origin and tehy are doctors. The guy who stalks that girl who came from London remarks how she has multiculti friends back there in the big city.