This country can be really confusing.https://twitter.com/cbcasithappens/status/1175154622975139840 …
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Stephen Marche Retweeted As It Happens
This country can be really confusing.https://twitter.com/cbcasithappens/status/1175154622975139840 …
Stephen Marche added,
yeah, the same take as my working-class, came-to-Canada-as-a-refugee Indian father. simply does not see it in any other way - says the outrage itself is elite!
It doesn't appear to be an uncommon response.
There's a generational divide on this issue -- similar but sharper than the divide on Apu.
Generational or class? Or do the two overlap?
They overlap -- the 1st generation immigrant who is working class will have a different take on this than their Canadian-born kids, who often go to university and are professionals.
Jeet is correct. And I get it: a generation who had to fight for basic survival, and to be seen at all, see these sort of matters as esoteric at best.
But other dynamic is that people can be convinced by one side or the other. I came to Canada in 1970s, so Apu on Simpsons never bothered me. But I learned problems with it from listening to younger Canadian and USA born Desi.
Yeah, but you're you Jeet. How common is that really?
I am the common man.
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