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As shares plummet in London, a bit of common sense from its Mayor
The Wilted Rose | October 6th 2008 by The Wilted Rose
And lunacy from the Treasury Shares continue to fall in London, as the credit crisis continues to take its toll on the banks and the economy, and on TV we still have to listen to that little Hobbit, Yvette Cooper - Treasury Minister and Mrs Balls, - read more
Looking at Europe from Asia
Islam, Muslims, and an Anthropologist | October 3rd 2008 by Dr Gabriele Marranci
Finally I have reached my destination and I am fully connected so that I can now go back to my blog after nearly two months of neglect. I am in Singapore, at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore. My new office has a window read more
Christian Find Help in Building Multi-Ethnic Churches and Ministr…
FromChurch.com | September 26th 2008 by Bishop James I Feel God Brown
Christian Find Help in Building Multi-Ethnic Churches and Ministries COLUMBUS, Ohio, Sept. 25 /Christian Newswire/ — Last week ReNew Partnerships launched TheNewCulture.org–an innovative new website which equips Christian leaders to build read more
The “vu cumprà” and the fishing crisis in Senegal
Islam, Muslims, and an Anthropologist | September 1st 2008 by Dr Gabriele Marranci
Recently I have been in Italy. Many things have changed since I was last there. Yet one of the features of the hot Italian summers, the so called ‘vu cumprà’ (literally ‘do you want to buy?’) were indefatigably patrolling the empty street read more
Are white middle-class men discriminated against? No, seriously.
evolution ... There is no spoon ... | August 26th 2008 by evolutionlondon
Well, they are, if you believe one Mr Jeremy Paxman. It seems that race relations have progressed so far in this country, that beyond mere equality, bigotry in its latest form means that white-middle class men have no hope of making within the televi read more
Positive discrimination is still discrimination
evolution ... There is no spoon ... | August 24th 2008 by evolutionlondon
It’s a tragedy that the ugly disease of racial and gender discrimination still plagues our society. Fifty years after the civil rights movement, one can’t but help feel that not much has changed, or at the very least, not enough. Rather t read more
Italy: Prejudice in life, indifference in death
Norte Sul Este Oeste | July 27th 2008 by Ricardo Portugal
By Peter PophamIt’s another balmy weekend on the beach in Naples. By the rocks, a couple soak up the southern Italian sun. A few metres away, their feet poking from under beach towels that cover their faces and bodies, lie two drowned Roma children read more
Italy: do not ask for a mosque but rather smoke your daily weed
Islam, Muslims, and an Anthropologist | July 11th 2008 by Dr Gabriele Marranci
It would be a good news, among the bad, if you were a Baye Faal Muslim of Gambia and, with your Muslim Rasta dreadlocks and ready to enjoy your daily dose of wisdom weed. Indeed, today you would have come to know that the Italian State, controlled read more
Italy: do not ask for a mosque but rather smoke your daily weed
Islam, Muslims, and an Anthropologist | July 10th 2008 by Dr Gabriele Marranci
It would be a good news, among the bad, if you were a Baye Faal Muslim of Gambia and, with your Muslim Rasta dreadlocks and ready to enjoy your daily dose of wisdom weed. Indeed, today you would have come to know that the Italian State, controlled read more
The ethnicity of dog training?
Mismorphic's World of Animal Behaviour | July 7th 2008 by Sarah Canadine
I've just come back from a weekend away, am very tired and should probably go to bed. However, I didn't have internet access all weekend, so of course the first thing I did when I got home was check my emails, and one of those emails really got me read more
Ethnic discrimination in Europe
Norte Sul Este Oeste | July 3rd 2008 by Ricardo Portugal
Although discrimination in general has decreased on the European continent in the past years, discrimination based on ethnic origin it is still perceived as widespread, with Roma in particular facing high levels of prejudice, according to a new Eurob read more
The dog, the hat, the police and Muslims in Dundee
Islam, Muslims, and an Anthropologist | July 3rd 2008 by Dr Gabriele Marranci
Have you read about the puppy dog, the police in Dundee and the Muslims? Do you want to know what actually happened and what is going on? If so, you can continue to read my post. As an anthropologist working and living in this region of Scotland, read more
Reporting terrorism: a reflection
Islam, Muslims, and an Anthropologist | June 29th 2008 by Dr Gabriele Marranci
It has been reported that a thirty-one-year old British Muslim stashed four home-made explosive devices, as well as bullets, swords, axes and knives in his flat. The police had found potentially lethal bladed weapons, 34 bullets for a .22 calibre fir read more
New UK bill discriminates against white males!
News, Views, Thrills & Spills! | June 26th 2008 by CharmaineZoe
Well this government has finally lost its marbles! Harriet Harman, the Equalities Minister, is about to introduce a Bill that allows positive discrimination out of the bag. It failed in America and it will cause more harm than good here. The Equality read more
Labour ‘plays the race card’ in desperate attempt to claw bac…
The Wilted Rose | June 25th 2008 by The Wilted Rose
In an excellent analysis, Newmania reports that: In a plan which is bound to be applauded by the BNP’s Nick Griffin, Labour intends to drop a plan to make families pay a cash bond for relatives who visit from India and Pakistan, instead there w read more
‘It’s time for brown people to switch to Tory’ - Sunny Hund…
The Wilted Rose | June 16th 2008 by The Wilted Rose
One aspect that many people forget about 42 days pre-charge detention is that almost all people who will be affected will be brown- or black-skinned. Sunny Hundal, Editor of Pickled Politics, is described on the site as: Academically trained as an read more
Losing the hearts, upsetting the minds: Brown’s 42-day detentio…
Islam, Muslims, and an Anthropologist | June 12th 2008 by Dr Gabriele Marranci
Today we are a less safe country than yesterday. Today, Britain has betrayed its own history, values and beliefs thanks to nine votes provided by a Northern Irish party, the DUP, no stranger to terrorist links. Today, the right to undermine even the read more
Canada apologises to aboriginal Canadians
Norte Sul Este Oeste | June 12th 2008 by Ricardo Portugal
Canada has apologised for forcing about 150,000 aboriginal children to attend state-funded Christian boarding schools aimed at assimilating them. Prime Minister Stephen Harper made the apology in parliament in Ottawa, in front of hundreds of ex-schoo read more
Japan officially recognises Ainu as indigenous people
Norte Sul Este Oeste | June 11th 2008 by Ricardo Portugal
Catherine MakinoIn a historic breakthrough Japan’s Diet has unanimously passed a resolution pressing the government to recognise the Ainu as indigenous people. “We are thrilled,” said a tearful Tadashi Sato, director of the Ainu Cultural Centre read more
What’s Labour up to in Birmingham, Ladywood?
The Wilted Rose | June 9th 2008 by The Wilted Rose
The Labour Party has traditionally been able to count upon the support of many people of South Asian and black (African-Caribbean) heritage. However, in recent years Labour has been losing the Muslim vote, primarily because of the war on terror - a read more
America’s race and gender issues in the 2008 election
Norte Sul Este Oeste | June 5th 2008 by Ricardo Portugal
The long wait is over. For the first time in its history, a nation that began by discounting the votes of African Americans will have a black man as a major party nominee.Barack Obama, the 46-year-old first-term senator from Illinois who effectively read more
Italia's first act of ethnic cleansing
Norte Sul Este Oeste | May 16th 2008 by Ricardo Portugal
By Peter PophamIn cruel and unusual concert, Italy’s new government, its police and paramilitary carabinieri, and even its gangsters, have turned their joint might against the nation’s enemy number one: the Gypsies.Yesterday Pope Benedict XVI and read more
And if Hitler were born in America?
Islam, Muslims, and an Anthropologist | May 8th 2008 by Dr Gabriele Marranci
Few people, both in the US and in the rest of the world, may know that the US has had its own Nazi Party, which under other different names (such as the Social Revolutionary Party) is still very active. I do not have statistics about how many Americ read more
Not only freedom: the dark ethnic side of the Tibetan Buddhist re…
Islam, Muslims, and an Anthropologist | April 28th 2008 by Dr Gabriele Marranci
No stereotype seems harder to die than the idea that Buddhists are peaceful and non-violent by default, as if they possessed a kind of genetic resistance to an illness affecting the majority of humanity: hate. Since the revolt in Tibet, the majority read more
Extreme-Right on Trial in Portugal
Norte Sul Este Oeste | April 11th 2008 by Ricardo Portugal
Mário de QueirozNeo-Nazis are on trial in Portugal for their “pathological and irrational hatred of ethnic minorities,” according to the charges filed by the Attorney-General’s Office against 36 members of the small but active local chapter of read more
Book Review | The Post-Soviet Wars: Rebellion, Ethnic Conflict an…
Social Science in the Caucasus | March 3rd 2008 by Aaron Erlich
The earliest books that came out about the Caucasus after the collapse of the Soviet Union were firsthand accounts of events. Now, a second spate of books, which attempt to apply analytical frameworks to the turbulent events that occurred have the br read more
Interview: How to Achieve Workplace Equality
Your Contact at DiversityWorking.com | January 25th 2008 by Steven Garcia
By Tony GrewEarlier this month gay equality organisation Stonewall published its 2008 Workplace Equality Index, showcasing Britain's top 100 employers for gay people.The top 100 were ranked according to criteria ranging from implementation of effecti read more
Labour enshrines racial discrimination
The Wilted Rose | September 11th 2007 by The Wilted Rose
Now we learn that Gordon Brown is enshrining racial discrimination in employment by promoting the abominable Local Employment Contracts. All Labour is doing is scrabbling for votes from working-class people now that the opinion polls are turning ag read more
Is the electorate sleepwalking its way to disaster?
The Wilted Rose | August 30th 2007 by The Wilted Rose
The Friday View If you were shipwrecked on a desert island and had returned to the UK for the first time in many years, you would realise that you were in a country in despair. The Labour Government is one of the most discredited, dishonest and mal read more
Labour is excluding black and Asian men from the House of Commons
The Wilted Rose | August 25th 2007 by The Wilted Rose
Two fascinating posts on Labour Home – here and here – reveal that Labour is implementing all women shortlists in the parliamentary selection in a number of London seats with significant black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) populations. Whil read more
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