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London, Jan 21: An outcry over alleged racist abuse during British reality TV show ``Celebrity Big Brother`` has exposed a wider problem of bigotry in Britain, a senior Cabinet Minister and commentators said.

Education Secretary Alan Johnson said schools must take a lead in promoting tolerance as newspaper editorial pages picked over the allegations that former dental nurse jade goody - evicted from the program by viewers yesterday - had subjected Indian actress Shilpa Shetty to racial abuse.

"For the truth be told, we are a society that is dripping in racism," the Guardian newspaper`s Martin Jacques said, one of a number of columnists who denounced both Goody and the show`s producers.

The show places several celebrities - or, in another version, members of the public - together for several weeks in a house where their every move is filmed and recorded. The set is sealed off from contact with the outside world - including television or radio - and viewers are asked to evict one person each week by voting by SMS or phone call. The last person in the house wins a prize.

Viewers filed 40,000 complaints with the country`s television regulator over the alleged abuse of Shetty, a Bollywood movie star.

It led to fierce criticism in both Britain and India, where protesters burned an effigy said to depict the show`s producers.
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From an Indian newspaper:
In the aftermath of the Goody-Shetty saga, Prime Minister Tony Blair, Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell, Leader of the Opposition David Cameron and London Mayor Ken Livingstone, have all felt the need to publicly condemn racism.

Chancellor Gordon Brown has found himself in an even worse predicament - on a state visit to India, Brown has had to field many more angry questions about Celebrity Big Brother and has hardly been given a chance to outline his prime-ministerial ambitions.

The British electorate, too, has been worried that the conduct of BB contestants can quite easily be mistaken for a reflection of modern Britain's manners, morals and culture. Over 95 per cent of the letters sent to newspapers express concern about the tarnishing of Britain's all-inclusive image.

This hullabaloo has led a commentator to note - "It is depressing that this country's race relations debate is now dictated by the ignorant views of a few attention seekers on a television programme."

For the British Asian community, however, this instalment of BB is a lot more than your usual television programme. It has helped bring to fore a cruelty that they eternally suffer; Shilpa allegedly being called 'Paki' was perhaps the most telling instance.

The BBC Asian network claims that the BB imbroglio has been its biggest story ever. As compared to Kashmir, the rise of the right-wing British National Party, and the Pakistani nuclear bomb, Shilpa Shetty has generated a lot more audience response.

The resultant uproar has also united the disparate South Asian communities of Britain. Despite a storm of 80 mph that crushed all hopes of a staged protest, an Indian TV channel crew found two Pakistanis holding ground.

"While we believe that Britain is a respectful society, racism does exist," says Rickie Sehgal, chair of Britain's Hindu Forum. "Indians are more likely to be employed in Britain, but the number of Indians at the board level can be counted on your fingers."

With the majority of British Muslim youth already alienated, the likes of Blair and Brown would have undeniably breathed a sigh of satisfaction seeing Jade Goody leave the house. A usual BB eviction vote had turned itself into Britain's referendum on racism.

The British population seems to have unanimously declared that racism will not be tolerated. They have thus deferred yet another crack in Britain's multi-cultural façade.
http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1905751,001100020014.htm
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For those who don't know her:

Shilpa Shetty

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Jade Goody, for those who don't know her:
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GOODY GOODY
http://www.bullshitnews.co.uk/Archive/jan2006fp.html

We're amazed to hear that Jade Goody - that inspiring and well known famous celebrity and former contestant of Channel 4's Big Brother (don't knock it she made a reputed 2 mill' last year) - has split yet again with her former lover Jeff Brazier, father of her children, with whom she had split the first time and then got back together with again - am I making any sense - anyway it's all off again and she's back with Ryan Amoo with whom she split... god I'm losing the will to live! It's not that so much that we're amazed to hear. It's that anyone would even want to be with that lard arsed, loud mouthed, thick, course lump of woman. Let's face it, even if the looks didn't turn your stomach, having to listen to it sounding off noon and night would be a total turn off. We're not saying she hasn't got good qualities - though her stock in trade seems to be mouthing off with a volley of bad language, a real potty mouth - it's just that she keeps them deeply hidden, probably below layer on layer of flab. I mean, imagine that sitting on your face!
Ugh, it's too early in the day to contemplate... no matter what time of day it is. But imagine, you go to sleep having got pissed enough to shag her in the first place and then you wake the following morning with a thick head and memory loss and turn over and there staring you in the face is Miss Piggy's arse. Uuuuuhhhhh! And what are her kids going to be like with her as a role model; foul mouthed yobs? Well watch that space! As astounding as that image is hearing how she has gone into the beauty industry with her own beauty salon. Alright it is appropriately named "Uglies". Talk about taking the piss! Hang on though, could it be that old Jade is not that dumb after all, thick yes but perhaps she's really a canny business women.... naaaah!
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Jade Goody is an obscene, talentless pig who - thank God, at last! - is destined once more for the obscurity she so richly deserves.

This isn't a comment on her alleged racism. I don't watch the show.
 
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Run lil tramp ruuuun!
I suspect from the look of them that it was good old fashioned jealousy masquerading as racism.

As for Shilpa Shetty I would sumbit to her every whim.:p
 
TimeTraveler said:
Well racism does accomplish one thing. It improves the odds of our species going extinct. It's suicide by racism for our species, unless we decide otherwise.
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What a ridiculous comment.
How, exactly, will our species go extinct via racism? We'll all implode with guilt?


On topic, from what I saw it wasn't racism at all, other than a someone making fun of an accent.Oh, wait - there was the "poppadom" coment. That must have hurt. Nope, plain old jealousy - and the three mentioned and shown in the short vids of the "incidents" that I saw aren't exactly blessed with brains. About par for the course with that kind of show really... and the fact that a tv show designed to appeal to the lowest common denominator engenders comment and newspaper articles all around the world is further proof that humans, in the main, are simply stupid.
 
Fenris Wolf said:
What a ridiculous comment.
How, exactly, will our species go extinct via racism? We'll all implode with guilt?


On topic, from what I saw it wasn't racism at all, other than a someone making fun of an accent.Oh, wait - there was the "poppadom" coment. That must have hurt. Nope, plain old jealousy - and the three mentioned and shown in the short vids of the "incidents" that I saw aren't exactly blessed with brains. About par for the course with that kind of show really... and the fact that a tv show designed to appeal to the lowest common denominator engenders comment and newspaper articles all around the world is further proof that humans, in the main, are simply stupid.
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Much ado about nothing!
 
I haven't seen this show, as I don't watch television, but this seems to be yet another nothing-issue fed to us by the Establishment and moron culture (same thing?) which keeps the attention away from the real challenges of the world (such as the poorest half of the world's population only controlling 1% of the world's wealth, and the richest 2% controlling 90% of the world's wealth).
 
Lord Hillyer said:
I haven't seen this show, as I don't watch television, but this seems to be yet another nothing-issue fed to us by the Establishment and moron culture (same thing?) which keeps the attention away from the real challenges of the world (such as the poorest half of the world's population only controlling 1% of the world's wealth, and the richest 2% controlling 90% of the world's wealth).
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Possibly. I think Indians are not used to the kind of abuse seen on these reality shows. Especially those who are used to being treated well in their own countries.:)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhAlFJjTMTU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPZsJevLR9w
 
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I don't watch 'reality' shows, but Shetty should have known better than to take part in one, or she should have done a runner like that singer because that would have been better publicity and she would have kept her credibility. Shetty got a small dose of British prole spite and there's a lot of it around.
 
tablariddim said:
I don't watch 'reality' shows, but Shetty should have known better than to take part in one, or she should have done a runner like that singer because that would have been better publicity and she would have kept her credibility. Shetty got a small dose of British prole spite and there's a lot of it around.
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Sorry not up with the lingo, what's prole spite?
 
tablariddim said:
Prole as in proletariat (poor, working class, sheeple), spite, as in talking from a basis of hatred and envy.
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The definitions at Urban Dictionary are equally negative. Written by the cynical sons of middle-ranking administrators. I'm fiercely proud of where I come from. I'm proud to be a prole. With several million in the bank - I can still scarcely believe that - Jade Goody has little to be envious of in that respect. She's just a fat, stupid, ugly, loud-mouthed slob with no manners and no sense of grace. There are people like that at every level of society.
 
samcdkey said:
Possibly. I think Indians are not used to the kind of abuse seen on these reality shows.
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I don't know how you can say that, Sam. Racism, class-ism and general hatred of outsiders is pretty rampant in India ....they should be accustommed to it on a daily basis!

What's the matter, Sam, do you turn a blind eye to all the hatred and racism in India .......yet post your expressions of horror at racism in Britian? Clean up your own fuckin' nation before you condemn others for the same things.

Baron Max
 
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