Got this from yesterday's Emirates Today (ET). Lanjutan isu siri TV Big Brother (UK), bagaimana aktres India dperlaku. Diskriminasi oleh omputih UK. Kemudian meletup (bukan ala C4!). D India dan UK (juga d Dubai!). Hingga ke peringkat tertinggi - Blair pun turut masuk campur!
Surat pembaca ET ini "membongkar" diskriminasi antara selebriti d India. Bukan bermaksud nak fokus India, tetapi kedangkala kita tak sedar kita sendiri pelaku diskriminasi. Yang Arab komplen Barat diskriminasi, sedangkan mereka (Arab - tak semua) mendiskriminasi pekerja dari Bangladesh atau Filipina. Kita kena selalu "cermin diri".
Caste in Bollywood Marriage
India went overboard in its reaction to the Shilpa Shetty episode on some silly TV show in the UK and effectively manipulated the situation to ensure that she netted the prize money on misplaced sympathy.
Meanwhile in India itself, the well past his sell-by-date, Amitabh Bachchan, the darling of Bollywood, perpetrated an even worse act of racism – met only by a deafening silence.
His son, Abhishek Bachchan’s yet-to-be wife, Aishwarya Rai (both film stars in their own right) was first married to a Peepal tree in Benares, then to a Banana tree in Bangalore and then married to an idol of a deity in Ayodhya before she is allowed to marry her human betrothed Abhishek.
All this racist nonsense because Aishwarya is Manglika-born, and in line with the practice of Untouchables (Hindu Caste System) she is required to first marry a tree, deity or an animal prior to marrying a human.
Shame on this!
Mohammad Hamza, Dubai
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