8/28/2023 0 Comments Noah hamilton writer![]() ![]() “You hear a lot of the people saying ‘Oh, they’re taking over, now the Indians are going to take over Great Britain and what’s next?’ And I always find myself going: ‘So what? What are you afraid of?’” “Watching the story of Rishi Sunak becoming England’s first prime minister of colour, of Indian descent, of all these things and then seeing the backlash, is one of the more telling things about how people view the role that they or their people have played in history,” Noah said in his response. ![]() We’re talking about England – 85% of English people are white.” The caller, who claimed to be a Tory party member, added: “Could you imagine me becoming the prime minister of Pakistan or Saudi Arabia? No. His polemic was inspired by a telephone caller on LBC radio who said Sunak was “not even British” and “doesn’t love England like Boris does”. He was reacting to a segment on the US satirical news show, the Daily Show, in which Trevor Noah, a comedian who was born in apartheid era South Africa, alleged that Britons were concerned that “Indians are going to take over Great Britain”. “This shows more solid anti-prejudice norms in our media and politics than in the US.” ![]() “There has been no racist backlash against Sunak from anybody with any public standing in Britain,” Sunder Katwala, director of British Future, a thinktank focusing on identity and integration, immigration and opportunity, told the Guardian. For many, how something across the Atlantic created such a kickback in Westminster is an example of the dangers of drawing direct cultural and political parallels between two differing nations – and the power of Twitter. ![]()
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