From: word_chemist@hotmail.com   
      
   'Blair on Parkinson was surreal. The thing that annoys me most about him is   
   the way he pretends to be down to earth and what some people call 'blokey'.   
   I turned over and watched part of a film about Indian immigrants in the   
   midlands in the 70s (Anita and Me). It was quite enjoyable and funny in   
   parts. Its faults were odd turns into melodrama, and the usual BBC - it was   
   funded by them - take on immigrant cultures (they are more rich and aren't   
   the white working class in need of some rigorous re-education).   
   The most interesting part about it for me was how a conservative outlook was   
   portrayed as being quite acceptable and understandable among the immigrants   
   but something inward looking and bad among the indigenous whites. Plus of   
   course the Indians were philanthropic to the whites but received   
   nationalistic violence in return.   
   The final scene seemed to be an allegory of the Cultural Revolution: an   
   Anglican vicar gives a right-on, hip-talking marriage service (the choir   
   sing a churchy version of Chicory Tip's Son of my Father) before stripping   
   off his vestments and driving off in a hippyfied Thames van (to be replaced   
   by a smiling black vicar who is looked on with horror by a white woman). The   
   message seems to be immigrant tradition good, indigenous tradition bad. The   
   Broadcasting Left needs to get its shit together over this because the gaps   
   in the reasoning and dogma are a trifle embarrassing for people so rich and   
   highly educated.'   
      
      
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