Like the French, who’ve [url=http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/mpapps/pagetools/print/news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3619988.stm]banned wearing of “large Christian crosses” in addition to banning Islamic headscarfs in public schools[/url], now Cambridge has banned any wearing of any kind of national dress, [url=http://news.sympatico.msn.ca/Bell.Sympatico.CMS/Print.aspx?type=feed&lang=en&contentid=6d1a8e9583d24bb594b4e4f749e70095&show=False&number=0&showbyline=False&subtitle=]including the kilt[/url], at grad ceremonies… Never mind that the kilt has been worn for ages at their grad ceremonies…
However, note that religious dress is not banned, so Sikhs can keep their turbans, no doubt…
and I’m sure…
… that if ever a Fijian student at Cambridge were to wear one of their traditional kilts, the ban would be lifted immediately, but hey, that’s just my guess…
But what will Oxford’s response be, given their age-old rivalry?
look at that, some Scots actually want to preserve their culture
… and not have them adulterated by foreign influences: see http://news.scotsman.com/print.cfm?id=332282005&referringtemplate=http%3A%2F%2Fnews%2Escotsman%2Ecom%2Fscotland%2Ecfm&referringquerystring=id%3D332282005 here.
Didn’t they know they’re supposed to shut up and accept multiculturalism shoved down their throats? That to object to foreign tribal rituals being incorporated into their parades is “racist”?
I see the http://www.edinburgh-tattoo.co.uk/tattoo-experience/forum.html Tattoo’s website’s forum is “now closed for seasonal maintenance and will open early 2005.” in other words, they’re removing the “offending” postings… They never happened; down the Orwellian “memory hole”…
So, Scots have to put up with their cultural celebrations being
watered down by being mixed with Maori and Zulu rituals; at the same
time, http://www.therundown.co.uk/news/1112012347/ they can’t wear their national dress at grad ceremonies at
Cambridge….
Incredible.
I’ve removed what I originally posted here two hours ago…
… because I’ve learned that the newspaper article I originally linked to was just an April Fool’s joke, and one I don’t find very funny.
(I’d erase this altogether if I could, but I apparently can’t do that.)
Why remove good satire? Leave it up and laugh along with it.
Will, I had seen that article linked elsewhere, and I for one didn’t doubt for an instant it was true (neither, clearly, did the other blog where I saw it linked); there was absolutely no reason to doubt it, in view of all the multiculti/”inclusiveness”/”anti-discrimination” nonsense that’s going on in Europe and North America today. That fake story was tame in comparison to what’s going on in the real world! I’m glad if it was someone’s choice of an April Fool’s joke, because one purpose of such jokes is satire, a legitimate and often very important safety-valve and/or warning of more insanity in store if people don’t come to their senses. That particular choice of an April Fool’s satire served a good purpose, one that advances our side. I don’t see any reason necessarily to delete anything, now that the joke has been exposed. Just explain it was a joke, as you’ve done, and leave everything up.
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Long live Flanders!
alright…
http://news.scotsman.com/print.cfm?id=344812005&referringtemplate=http%3A%2F%2Fnews%2Escotsman%2Ecom%2Fedinburgh%2Ecfm&referringquerystring=id%3D344812005 Here’s the clever, frighteningly plausible April Fool’s joke from the Scotsman.
The phrase at the end of the article, “It’s as if these people sat there all day and made up this stuff.”, should have given it away…
Actually, re-naming of place names to satisfy the demands of political correctness, has already happened in Canada – a mountain in Alberta, “Chinaman’s Peak”, was renamed “Ha Ling Peak” (the name of the Chinese man in question, actually) – but people nearby still call it “Chinaman’s Peak”, despite officialdom. And I know of an island in Ontario previously called “Nigger Island”, which was officially renamed “Mekatewis Island” in 1966, but locals still call it “Nigger Island”, 39 years after the renaming… In these cases, one can well understand why these names might rub some people the wrong way (though the change was simply ignored by most others). But I can foresee people – bureaucrats and shrieking left-wing activists, that is – getting upset over “Blackburn” or “Blackhead” etc., one day. It will come…