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[Crimson Ghost]

Why are news stories finding it important to specify that the nurse was from India?
The fact that she possibly killed herself over this would be diminished if she was from Poland or China?

[xoxoxoBruce]

Maybe for the people scratching their head trying to figure out why she took it so seriously to off herself. That doesn't sound like keep calm and carry on.

But probably because there is so little facts to the story, you can tell the whole thing in a paragraph even if you use $2 words, they need filler.

[Ibby]

Originally Posted by Crimson Ghost

Why are news stories finding it important to specify that the nurse was from India?
The fact that she possibly killed herself over this would be diminished if she was from Poland or China?

Because there have been rumors that she was already suffering from workplace discrimination, like MANY people of Indian and Pakistani descent working in Britain do. There isn't major anti-polish sentiment in Britain, and not nearly as much anti-chinese sentiment as anti-Indian, either. It was the ridicule and racism connected to her screw-up on the phone that pushed her over the edge, supposedly.

[DanaC]

Originally Posted by Ibby

Because there have been rumors that she was already suffering from workplace discrimination, like MANY people of Indian and Pakistani descent working in Britain do. There isn't major anti-polish sentiment in Britain, and not nearly as much anti-chinese sentiment as anti-Indian, either. It was the ridicule and racism connected to her screw-up on the phone that pushed her over the edge, supposedly.

Not quite that simple. Different Indian and Asian communities are treated quite differently and face different levels of discrimination. There's a broad colour based discrimination which might hit anybody of Indian descent, but that kind of discrimination is as likely to hit someone of Chinese descent also. Of the various ethnic groups, people of Indian origin are second only to white british in terms of employment levels and economic status. The relationship between 'British' and Indian cultures and communities is a complex one.


Pakistanis almost universally face discrimination and outright hostility in mainstream culture. Anti-muslim violence generally, and anti-Pakistani and Kashmiri more specifically is rife. Much of what does exist of anti-Indian sentiment is actually a confusion of terms and a spill-over from this anti-muslim stance. Even the BNP draw a distinction between Indians (they claim to have a Sikh writer on their political newspaper, and they have definitely had Sikh members) and Pakistanis.

Poles on other hand are now facing rising levels of mistrust and racism because of the influx of new workers from the EU. Most of the 'they're taking our jobs' type muttering now is directed at Central and Eastern Europeans.

[Ibby]

Originally Posted by DanaC

Not quite that simple.

Never quite that simple, thanks for the detail!

[Lamplighter]

OregonLive.com
Emily E. Smith
12/12/12

Cornelius woman ordered to leave cul-de-sac after years of neighbor disputes

A lengthy neighbor clash in Cornelius punctuated by numerous calls to police, nearly a dozen court cases and one criminal conviction came to an abrupt halt this fall.

When Barbara Jeanne Wyatt, 62, told her neighbor, "Don't talk to me," that was the end. It was a violation of her no-contact order, a condition of her probation.

For that, Washington County Circuit Judge Don Letourneau ordered her to move out of her house, in the North Barlow Place cul-de-sac, where she's lived for 18 years.

The drama started, at least on paper, several years ago when Ed Legler put in a concrete parking spot for an RV on his property. Wyatt said the project created water runoff that damaged her house. Legler refused to help pay for repairs, and conflict spun from there.

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The rest of the story is too involved for TheCellar,
but I think it is an new extreme in court judgements.

[footfootfoot]

Originally Posted by Crimson Ghost

Why are news stories finding it important to specify that the nurse was from India?
The fact that she possibly killed herself over this would be diminished if she was from Poland or China?

The frist wave of stories I read only mentioned her name, no discussion of her roots.

[Crimson Ghost]

Originally Posted by footfootfoot

The frist wave of stories I read only mentioned her name, no discussion of her roots.

The second or third story I saw about it mentioned her nationality.
I guess I was looking at it in terms of light green and dark green.

[footfootfoot]

Originally Posted by Crimson Ghost

The second or third story I saw about it mentioned her nationality.
I guess I was looking at it in terms of light green and dark green.

or brown as the case may be...