File spoon-archives/postcolonial.archive/postcolonial_2000/postcolonial.0007, message 244


From: "Salil Tripathi" <salil61-AT-hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: My culture, right or wrong?
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 15:00:56 GMT



As a south Asian who has recently moved to Britain (legally, I might add), I 
thought some of you may find the following joke, popular among 
Asian-Britons, interesting.

................

Mr Smith returned to Britain after spending 40 years in Malaya as a 
plantation manager and thought it would be a good idea to drop in on his old 
neighbour in Ipoh, Mr Jones, who had retired somewhere in Edgware, 
Middlesex. With great effort, he finds the street--London has changed 
considerably in the last four decades--and he knocks on the door. Gurbachan 
Singh, a Sikh gentleman opens the door and looks at him with some surprise.

"Er, I'm looking for Mr. Jones, actually," Mr Smith says. "He lives here -- 
isn't this address right?"

Gurbachan Singh reads the address and is puzzled. "The address is right, but 
Mr. Jones?" Gurbachan Singh asks. "I have lived on this street for 15 years, 
but no foreigner lives on this street," he says, and shuts the door.

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