2007-01-25 23:27:15 · 7 answers · asked by monaUK 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
I don't think any rational person takes one ounce of notice of big brother. Its a garbage show. Its also a bit rich to expect people to be locked in a house and not say something they would say at home. Whether people like to see it on tv or not - freedom of speech is still a basic right.
2007-01-25 23:37:35 · answer #1 · answered by obenypopstar 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
In general the people from UK are one of the best-behaved in this mortal world. No doubt about it and one bad egg may have spoiled the lot, but I consider it as an individual case which has tarnished the Image of the whole nation.
However, I think that had the situation been with any other national from a developed country, rather than Shilpa Shetty of India, then the hue and cries would not have been in that magnitude.
The psychologist could better explain this weird obsession of superiority complex Indians are having at this moment when they got the whiffs that India is now counted as one of the leading members of the world power.
Think of the same situation just 15 to 20 years ago, would there been such hooplas? Indians are enjoying newly found taste of being the Mini-Super Power and behaving like any new college entrants who would find the taste of liberty and overdo in almost every move he/she takes, like a snob person visiting town for the first time, though he/she is one of the top-guy at his/her village. Grow up Indians and lead us, the followers from Asia and SAARC countries in an exemplary way.
By the way, India is by far superior to the countries surrounded by it, including China (in cultural and such artistic field). However, Chinese are much superior to India in technology and both are running neck-to-neck to become regional powerhouse.
Caution: Please do not attack me for being a bit critical of India. I know that the uniform is new and the ego is very high at this point of time (lol).
2007-01-26 07:46:04 · answer #2 · answered by Hafiz 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I really hope it hasn't.
I've written a blog entry on my 360 page on this. Here it is....
The big news story in Britain at the moment is not the war in Iraq or the cash for honours investigation of Tony Blair's government. No the lead item on all the news channels and in the newspapers is that reality TV celebrity Jade Goody has been evicted from the Big Brother house!
Nearly 8 million Britons watched Jade's exit from BB last night. The interest was so strong because Jade Goody had been racially abusing her fellow BB housemate - Bollywood beauty Shilpa Shetty. Questions have been asked in Parliament about this and even the government of India has condemned the broadcasting of this behaviour!
It's been blown way out of proportion now with the mayor of London Ken Livingstone commenting today that this could effect Indian business investment in London and it gives a bad impression of Britain to the rest of the world! I think he is half right.
Britain should have a bad reputation because of this. Jade Goody is a talentless loud mouthed bullying ignorant person who the British public have raised to the status of major celebrity and millionaire.
When Jade is on the cover of newspapers and magazines it increases sales. This reflects badly on the British public. My fellow Brits do seem to have a fondness for mediocrity. It wasn't always this way. We used to be world leaders in poular culture. Our music, our television, our fashion used to be popular all over the world. Something went badly wrong and I think it happened about the same time that the British "artist" Damien Hirst exhibited half a dead sheep and became a cultural phenomenon and icon! Yes he really did. He started what became known as the Brit-Art movement. A few decades ago we were (genuinely progressive) modernist and then we decided this was leaving too many people behind and we became (politically correct) post-modernist.
I think post modernism has been embraced in Britain more than in any other country. Maybe it's been a desperate attempt to re-invent ourselves after our politically incorrect imperialist past. We arrogantly imposed definitions of what was culturally sophisticated and what was backward to a large part of the world. Perhaps post modernism was an attempt to knock the cultural elite off it's perch. I think the baby is being thrown out with the bath water though!
In the absence of recognizable standards anything can be exhibited as art and often is. If someone wants to exhibit mediocre work and still be considered an intellectual then they put two little inverted commas round it smugly to show that they are being "ironic". This apparently is the key to making them an artist! London has plenty of millionaire philistines like (Damien Hirst's backer) Charles Saatchi to promote this trash and spuriously validate it.
It's not just in the visual arts that post-modernism has degraded British culture. Jade Goody is the ultimate post-modern celebrity: talentless and idiotic.
This is why I support Re-modernism - the call for a return to sincerity and meaning in our culture. We have irony overload and if this anti-art and anti-culture was meant to be light relief then the joke is really wearing thin now. There is a place in Britain for humorous insincerity but when it's in prestigious national art galleries and top rated TV programmes I think the joke is on Britain and the British people!
2007-01-26 07:47:58 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nope!!!
For the most part, I have always had a postiive impression of the UK and I still do.
That does not mean that there are not aspects or subcultures within the UK I'd have no objections to of course. But as a Canadian, I think the UK is mostly pretty cool.
2007-01-26 07:39:10 · answer #4 · answered by rostov 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No mine hasn't, apart from the fact I now know the UK can unite-its apparent from the united reaction to the comments. If this is the case, then we can unite against bullies who want to see the UK torn into shreds.
The UK nation are not racists.
2007-01-26 07:34:51 · answer #5 · answered by princessofpop1983 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No at-least not mine.They have shown their behaviour once again. Is this the way to treat a visitor in their home. God save them, Big brother showed once again how 'big' (all in small caps) they truly are. You can't brush away as one off incident. It's their true tradition. Bark Bark away .....
2007-01-26 07:44:45 · answer #6 · answered by jp 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
senceless people?????????????????????????
2007-01-26 12:44:55 · answer #7 · answered by ranganath gangannagmhalli 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋