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. ................ ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com --- from list postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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