Monday, July 17, 2006

Asian or Hindu? Playing games with identity / AIM, 17 July, 2006

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Sunny Hundal
"The whole debate is getting absurd. There are some very poor and deprived Hindus, Sikhs and Muslims in the UK while there are some very rich ones too. It has very little to do with faith and more to do with other identities these very people want to negate. For the government and media to categorise groups differentiated by class, geography, language, caste, nationality and race into tightly defined faith groups - whether to alleviate poverty or to engage with - is as ludicrous as using the word 'Asian' to define anyone non-white."