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Originally posted by CharlotteSometimes
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Originally posted by Ruth
Erm...no it isn't prejudiced. As you yourself have said, Jo made cultural gaffes in the house. She clearly showed herself to be ignorant of Asian culture. I'm not even going to pretend that Jade might have much going on between her ears - even Jade herself would admit that she's not exactly the sharpest knife in the drawer ("why don't Eskimos turn into ice people?"). If any of the girls had asked for Shilpa's opinions on any of the problems in India that you listed, it would have been fair enough, and a reasonable question to ask. They didn't - they weren't even interested in her culture, except as a reason to get at her.
And if we only saw a snapshot of those girls - we only saw a snapshot of Shilpa as well. But you seem prepared to make several judgements about her.
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Yeah, she did. But to automatically presume that the three of them knew absolutely nothing is prejudiced. Unless you were there whenever any of them were talking, 24 hours a day, of course. All of the hm's have said that certain things weren't shown, including the supposed 'good guys'. Wouldn't your average English/British person be equally as naive about her culture? For all we know, they could've asked her plenty about her culture. Did she ask them about theirs?
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Considering Jade thought Cambridge was in London, 'East Angular' was abroad, and she didn't know who George Bush or Tony Blair are, it's not a hard stretch to realise that she's not going to have a clue about Asian culture.
Did Shilpa ask them about their culture? Well, I don't know. Unless you were there whenever any of them were talking, 24 hours a day, of course - you couldn't know either.
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Indeed. I don't think that she's a bad person at all. Much like anyone else, she has her good points and her bad points, too. But she's been painted as almost serene, somehow floating in a special aura that exists just for her. That's what I'm objecting to, because she hasn't done anything to justify being elevated to some kind of cod-sainthood.
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I'm not a particular fan of Shilpa. But I do think she handled herself with grace and dignity. I doubt that Jade could even spell grace or dignity. If that makes me prejudiced, so be it.