Re: Sometimes you really *can't* get by in English

On 29 Feb 2008, Mike Lyle wrote
HVS wrote:

I found this really quite giggle-inducing; guess I'm
basically mean- hearted, or something:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bristol/7270401.stm
-snip-

I agree it's bloody funny. But Satish Kumar walked from India to
Britain with no money; I was so impressed that I never even
thought of asking him about the language thing.

I wonder if he perhaps benefitted from a sort of positive cultural
discrimination?

Western culture has long been aware of eastern ascetics, so an Indian
travelling on foot with no money might well be taken for a holy man,
and probably has a better chance of getting by than a 28-year-old
Englishman who looks like he's trying to blag his way around the
world.

--
Cheers, Harvey
CanEng and BrEng, indiscriminately mixed


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