Comments on: Outsourcing Unrest

By: Accurateafrica

Accurateafrica — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 13:16:40 +0000

Great post! Outsourcing wouldn’t hurt a country. On the contrary it would help create more better paying jobs. That is what policy makers have failed to understand.

By: Sudhir Srinivasan

Sudhir Srinivasan — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:07:08 +0000

Brilliant facts. Every Indian needs to know the reality. Every Indian
as to make sure that it is never repeated again. Indians have to
realise life is a cycle as said in Gita and it is our time to rule.

By: Melissa

Melissa — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 21:31:47 +0000

How lofty and unifying. Not.

By: KL5

KL5 — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 21:24:28 +0000

Michael Kenny, you brag and grumble here freely, but when you ‘re asked or challenged, you don ‘t brag at all. i suggest, you shut up and disappear from dv. have a nice whisky!

By: KL5

KL5 — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 20:50:41 +0000

Michael Kenny, “the Brits are starting to realise that they are just Europeans like the rest of us and made the same long list of stupid (and deadly!) mistakes in the 20th century that we all did.”
many demarcation lines on the world map are british achievements. do you think that the brits would ever apologize to the primitive and uncivilsed for their royal demarcations?

By: Michael Kenny

Michael Kenny — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 19:16:03 +0000

Why now? Essentially, because the US, to which the British have hitched their post-colonial wagon since the mid 1960s, is collapsing! The European empires destroyed themselves in WWI, although nobody noticed it at the time. For Britain, the first big crack in the empire was India in 1947 But Ghana in 1957 was the big shock. Black Africans were perceived as primitive and uncivilised and the idea that they could govern themselves boggled everybody’s mind. From then on, highlighted by the generalisation of TV, the British saw s long string of ceremonies at which various royals stood to attention as the Union Flag was hauled down, funny-looking flags were hauled up in its place and funny-looking black, brown and yellow men stepped forward to salute them. By the mid-60s, the British new that they were no longer the world bully, so they made themselves the best boys of the new world bully, the “special relationship”. With the US on the skids, the Brits are starting to realise that they are just Europeans like the rest of us and made the same long list of stupid (and deadly!) mistakes in the 20th century that we all did. What we’re seeing is another step in the “re-Europeanisation” of Britain.