My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding

[5t3IIa]

the programme makers were racist too! it all makes sense.

Perhaps he recognised an Indian wedding from a Pakistani one?

 

[5t3IIa]

Well I'm interested. What's the deal with that? For a community that's so protective over its children, it seems odd that they're happy to let them make their own way to a massive ceremony like communion on their own with only a limo driver as adult supervision.

Is communion like a bar mitzvah? Now you are a man, type thing? I wouldn't know - I'm an atheist.

 

[skyscraper101]

Is communion like a bar mitzvah? Now you are a man, type thing? I wouldn't know - I'm an atheist.

Thanks. Really useful.

 

[rutabowa]

Perhaps he recognised an Indian wedding from a Pakistani one?

very presumptuous of him!

 

[5t3IIa]

Thanks. Really useful.

It's an idea in answer to your question Might help explain why there's a tradition of sending the kids off by themselves, eh?

very presumptuous of him!

Who?

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

very presumptuous of him!

Alcohol at Indian weddings, none at Pakistani weddings.

 

[Melinda]

I found it depressing this time round. Some of the cultural relativism on this thread is infuriating.

 

[rutabowa]

Alcohol at Indian weddings, none at Pakistani weddings.

?? don't be silly, even if that were true, which it isn't, there is no way the documentary maker had spotted loads of guests necking bottles of champagne outside that wedding and deduced from that that it was an indian wedding. he was just replacing a bad word with a neutral word, the meanign didn't really matter.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Well it wasn't really even a neutral word.

Swanley, "Well what's a non-racist word for them?"

Film bloke, "Indian?"


Indian can happily refer to anyone from the Indian subcontinent. Just try to avoid calling a Pakistani or Bangladeshi Indian. All very simple.

 

[Proper Tidy]

Perhaps it was a hindu wedding. We'll never know.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Sounded like a Jain one to me.

 

[rutabowa]

Indian can happily refer to anyone from the Indian subcontinent. Just try to avoid calling a Pakistani or Bangladeshi Indian. All very simple.

eh?? those two sentences totally contradict each other.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

No one said understanding the subcontinent was easy.

An white Aussie or a Kiwi would not take offence at being described at European, both may be miffed at being called English.

 

[Proper Tidy]

It's like Canadians being Americans I suppose innit

 

[rutabowa]

No one said understanding the subcontinent was easy.

don't patronise me, you were the one who said "all indian weddings have alcohol, all pakistani weddings are teetotal".

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

don't patronise me, you were the one who said "all indian weddings have alcohol, all pakistani weddings are teetotal".

In Pakistan they are.

 

[rutabowa]

i am sure you have been "travelling" around the indias and have lots of knowledge from that.

 

[Griff]

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

i am sure you have been "travelling" around the indias and have lots of knowledge from that.

Nope. Only been to India once, to Goa for one week.

Any other sneering presumptions you'd care to make?

 

[rutabowa]

you did bring it on yourself.

 

[girasol]

Perhaps he recognised an Indian wedding from a Pakistani one?

Confusing Indian and Pakistani isn't racist though, it's just ignorant... Sometimes people shout racism when there isn't any. He did stop and think that 'Paki' could be thought of as racist, does that make him a racist? I'm confused now!

 

[rutabowa]

Confusing Indian and Pakistani isn't racist though, it's just ignorant... Sometimes people shout racism when there isn't any. He did stop and think that 'Paki' could be thought of as racist, does that make him a racist? I'm confused now!

both about the same level to me, neither that big a deal.

 

[Melinda]

They should have bound her feet to complete the trussed up doll look.

 

[5t3IIa]

Confusing Indian and Pakistani isn't racist though, it's just ignorant... Sometimes people shout racism when there isn't any. He did stop and think that 'Paki' could be thought of as racist, does that make him a racist? I'm confused now!

He wasn't confusing Pakistani and Indian - he was using a derogatory word to describe brown people. Oh, wait hang on - do you mean the wiberal or the gyppo?

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

you did bring it on yourself.

Yes, how remiss of me to be factually correct

 

[rutabowa]

which bit was factually correct?

 

[skyscraper101]

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

which bit was factually correct?

All of it.

 

[skyscraper101]

Phwoaar

 

[Ground Elder]

Spot on. The Irish travellers I know think this programme is great.

Whereas all the Gypsies I've talked to about last night's programme hated it.