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Rudyard Kipling: East is East (poem) ►Pakistan / another source: Answer.com ►Migration History ( excerpt from MovingHere.org.uk): The partition of India into two successor states, India and Pakistan, resulted in the transfer of approximately eight million Muslims, and equivalent numbers of Sikhs and Hindus, across the Indo-Pakistan borders in the north-west and north-east of the subcontinent in 1947. The largest single refugee movement of the 20th century was accompanied by communal violence and atrocities committed on all sides of the religious spectrum, with a death toll calculated at approximately 1 million. In South Asia it has been referred to as a holocaust. Apart from the psychological scars, which have yet to heal, there were the practical problems of the fragmentation of refugee populations and loss of family land holdings, particularly in the Punjab, an area from which many migrants to Britain emigrated. It is no coincidence then that the vast majority (possibly as much as 75%) of post-war immigrants to Britain, prior to the 1970s, came from regions directly affected by partition. |
Christine + Klaus |
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East is East (movie) ►George's & Ella's fight (extract) |
Desirč + Claudia |
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►Meeting the Shaw family (extract) ►Marrying My Cousin BBC 2, 00:20-01:00, Mar 16 Documentary about British Pakistanis' arranged marriages to their first cousins, in particular the story of Neila Butt who married her cousin Farooq, which has turned out well for all concerned. The film also follows her brother Gark as he embarks on a journey to Pakistan to meet the cousin his family plan for him to marry, but Gark is quite clear that he has no plans for the wedding to ever take place. ►Pakistani, Actually BBC 2, 22:15-00:05 An evening of four programmes offering an entertaining, thought-provoking and revealing insight into the contemporary lives of Britain's Pakistanis. 9.15 British Paki and Proud: a documentary charting the British Pakistani experience. 9.50 Luton, Actually: writer Sarfraz Manzoor tells his personal story of arriving in Britain as a child in the 70's and growing up in a town that was the butt of national jokes. 10.25 Atta Boy: profile of aspiring actor Atta Yaqub. 10.45 Who Wants To Be A Mullah?: Navid Akhtar, a British born Pakistani Muslim, goes on a personal quest in search of a greater understanding of Islam and the way it's practiced in Britain today. |
Anne + Stefanie |
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►Rush: How Is Schwarzenegger Different From a Democrat? Rush Limbaugh ►Schwarzenegger's liberal views leave GOP flummoxed
►ArnoldForPresident: Pro - Con ►Schwarzenegger the Governator BBC 4, 00:00-01:00 (Oct 10, 2004) The story of the most bizarre American election to date, Arnie's 2003 triumph in California. The film follows the Schwarzenegger campaign and some of the funniest moments from the other 134 candidates, including the game show Who Wants To Be Governor Of California?
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Andrea + Frank + David |
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(Political) Satire |
Christopher + Steffi |
