britains wealthy elite exploiting indians? tale as old as time
The “wealthy elite” in this case are Indian. Goes on to show that it’s not a matter of race/origin but of class, the sooner we collectively realize this the better off we’ll be.
It’s both. Trying to erase actual issues people care about (race / gender / culture / sexual orientation) doesn’t work. You can’t just say “don’t worry about it”. Not all struggle is class struggle. People actually care about their culture.
Not trying to erase anything, I just think it’s the main issue we’re facing right now, and that we’d be better off on many of these other issues if we did something about that one.
That’s what someone who doesn’t care about race, gender, etc. would say. You may not care because none of those affect you negatively.
Many rich Indians in the west still treat people of lower castes like this. Even the “liberal” ones. Like in Silicon Valley there are Indians from higher castes who try to uphold the caste system and they look down on their Indian colleagues who were born in a lower caste. Even when the person of lower caste has a higher position in the company.
And Switzerland can you also go after the rich Arabs who have Filipino slaves in their mansions in Europe.
Even the “liberal” ones
Even?
I wonder how many people know that the CEO of Google participates in the caste system
Can you elaborate?
It seems a little reductive/whataboutist to bring that up in the conversation about rich british assholes, though?
They will try to behave like that with others too, can’t let shit like that slide. Got to educate them ;)
almost like the caste system was an artificial social construct invented by the elites to ensure they stay on top
Some of them even got raises
Let em go. Clearly role model employers
Putting the filthy in filthy rich.
TIL there are richer Britons than the Windsors.
The Windsors hide behind a technicality. The crown corporation is rich, not the family.
These guys are Indians, not Britons. I think you meant Brits.
“Briton” is generally used as the noun form of “British”, so when “Brit” is used as a noun - which is most of the time - it’s abbreviating “Briton”.
As for who gets to be called “Briton”: In the loosest sense, anyone with residence in Britain can be counted as British when they’re here, whether or not they’re considered ethnically British (by themselves or others).
Bear in mind that “Briton” originally mean “an inhabitant of the British Isles before any of the Romans, or various flavours of Germanics turned up”. There’s been quite a bit of admixture since then. It makes sense - to the chagrin of the Welsh, no doubt - that the term has mutated a bit over the centuries.
Residence does not suffice: you’re a Briton if you have British nationality (no matter of which of the 4 nations) so people have to apply for British nationality after at least a certain time as resident (5 years for Indians and a few other nationals, 10 for most foreigners) plus there are other mechanisms to get British nationality (for example, for descendants - resident or otherwise - of people born in Northern Ireland).
I lived for over a decade in Britain as an EU citizen but I’m not and never was a Briton since I never applied for British nationality.
Maybe not in any legal sense, no. How people and even news media use it, there’s plenty of wiggle room.
e.g. allowing the ambiguity of “British home owner” to go unclarified, that is as “home owner who is British” as opposed to “owner of a home in Britain”, and any similarly loose interpretations that go along with or derive from that.
I don’t remember ever hearing “Brit” or “Brits” being used for immigrants in Britain and definitelly heard it used for when Britons are living abroad as immigrants (in fact when living in The Netherlands I had some colleagues who were in their own words “Brits”)…
Always thought it was just another way of saying British and not going into the specifics of which nation in Britain did people come from (the whole “nations” thing for people abroad is generally irrelevant or even misunderstood).
I always thought of “Briton” in that last sense, while “Brit” has the meaning of anyone living in the UK (almost). But that’s from an outsider’s perspective.
As my English cousin corrected me, though, “I’m English, ‘British’ could be anything!”. She wasn’t, of course, talking about the difference between English and Welsh, or Scots.
Pity the person of Scottish (or Welsh) ancestry born in England who has to choose what they are on some forms, especially legal ones.
But then, there are worse problems to have.
You remember when a international crisis happened after the Swiss police apprehended Gaddafi’s son when he beat hotel staff?
They’re giving the royal family jail time?
That’s a joke by the way. I read the tagline, but the headline is inaccurate.
I mean other people are rich but very few families are ‘we own most of the land in Canada’ rich.
The royal family are not the richest. Sure they have assets but most of it they can’t really sell.
They’re scroungers and I hope one day we oust them. How can we bang on about equality whilst holding parasites on a pedestal.
I’m shocked, but happy, that they actually got jail time.
4.5 years for the parents and 4 years for the son and his wife respectively. I think jail time for people like this is the only way we can make sure they don’t do it again, a fine is no use when you’re richer than god.
Will they serve it though? They weren’t even present at the sentencing due to “poor health”.
Will they serve it though?
There is a thing called “international arrest warrant”. Of course they are rich enough to hide somewhere where the Swiss have no contract with, but I don’t think they would enjoy that…
Fuck em! Rich family, I mean. Not indians.
