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I feel like I do need to try a curry in

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India because I'm sure these ones over

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here are like crap compared The Joker

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like the teas and spices there living in

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harmony appreciating life everything

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that's around them chicken tikka masala

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for example this this is not a

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traditional Indian dish it was developed

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in Scotland believe it or not in

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Scotland Yeah by bus driver

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s yeah wow

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I don't even have slippers of my own

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I think my introduction to Hollywood

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billionaire they're very very Hospital

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Indian people are if you go into their

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homes they'll they'll very easily

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volunteer food for you drink for you tea

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for you whatever you want you know how

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to easy English this week I want to know

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what Brits think about Indians in

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Britain we have a long-standing

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relationship with India and Indian

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culture so I want to know how much do

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Brits actually know about India before

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I was very fortunate I got to visit

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India when I was 17 and went up to the

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Himalayas I was in Delhi

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um for for a little bit and it was one

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of the best experiences of my entire

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life it was absolutely fantastic such a

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vibrant beautiful place so I do I do

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wish I knew more I need to go back have

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you been to India I haven't no I've had

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friends from India

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um I went to Art University and they

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were actually quite a lot of like

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different cultures which is really

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interesting we were sat on these

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thousand steps to the temple yeah and I

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had to take a break you know 200 steps

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in because it's it's 40 degree here and

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you're trying to get up the sets and

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this guy is going up with this tray of

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milk for this Festival they had all like

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piled up on his head yeah and he just

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sped past us and I was thinking now how

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does he do that probably three or four

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times a day when was the last time you

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went went back to India about 10 years

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ago okay your family out there I've got

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uh cousins out there in India in my

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hometown or my parents Hometown yeah

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where they were born I have a cousin

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with a big farm there but I haven't been

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there for years for my life uh

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surrounded by Indian culture really yeah

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I mean it's been so influential

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um

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just through food and yeah through

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Bollywood as well

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I think my introduction to Bollywood was

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through Slumdog Millionaire okay yeah

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and then through that I think I find

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Indian culture very inspiring why is

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that another Festival of Color and like

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their emphasis on religion as well I

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know there's quite a lot of difference

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in religion because you've got to do

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different types of Sunni and Shia

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Muslims but I think it's important to

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uphold religion you can sort of Define

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them super super friendly it's

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um it's it's wonderful I certainly

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obvious like wonderful technology and

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ability to understand something I'm

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always I'm always really excited when I

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get to talk to someone

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um about Mystic sometimes oh my God this

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person's Really Gonna know their stuff

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everyone I spoke to you there was really

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fascinating and they had like they were

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very friendly and personable and like

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wanted to like tell me about if you are

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still they'll happily talk to you I love

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the food I'm a massive foodie so I'm

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very excited I've got one friend who's

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Indian who's going to tell me lots about

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all the best places to go for India food

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in around Bradford it's a very very

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excited flower I want to take my family

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get that list of recommendations to get

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down there and eat some real food

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because it's just wonderful I'd say the

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hospital

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um like when I stayed around my friend's

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house

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um it's the same thing in my culture but

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like you you you want your guests to be

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as comfortable as possible because

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they're they're already uncomfortable

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from the fact that they're not they're

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in someone else's house right yeah and

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you want them like to treat your home

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like it's their home basically so like

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it's

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um

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I love the thing that like they come in

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you immediately like offer them slippers

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you offer them something to drink like

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let them slippers yeah wow

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like I I don't even have slippers of my

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foreign

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born in Tanzania and brought up in East

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London all Asians had the right to come

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to England in the 50s and 60s right as

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long as they paid for the rights which

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they used to pay those days five times a

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person I like India as a vibrant country

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especially Mumbai where I normally go

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and it's very vibrant City a very mixed

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culture in terms of different Indians

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okay and compared to British culture uh

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it's totally different yeah yeah totally

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different from British culture they tend

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to live together and eat together as a

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community security thing and within a

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household they'll share rooms that

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they'll you know they'll live in the

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same room although they're all Indian

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they all have um different religions

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different languages

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uh different way of doing things

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different way of cooking

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it's a big mix India is a big mix of

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population and how how long have you had

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this this place open for this one we

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only opened in March this year okay uh

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not very long

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um but it's very authenticated Indian

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food not the traditional food you're

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getting most Indian restaurants in this

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country food is a big part of British

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culture essentially now again the food

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in this country

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um 95 of it is not Indian it's it's uh

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cooked by Bangladeshi people which is uh

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known as East Pakistan or what used to

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be East Pakistan chicken tikka masala

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for example this this is not a

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traditional Indian dish it was developed

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in Scotland believe it or not in

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Scotland Yeah by a bus driver was the

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Indian he was Indian bastard he was

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Indian okay and his friends like chicken

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and they like something and you decide

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making uh chicken dick Masala with

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tomato soup our restaurant in particular

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here is very much authentic Indian

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cooked by Indian chefs and very Indian

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food what is a traditional Indian

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things like Rogan Josh Biryani is very

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big rice is the biggest thing is

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Indian yeah yeah very Indian

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um again in India most people their

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basic diet is rice how would someone

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without going to India get to experience

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real like yeah authentic Indian culture

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because there's enough in the UK I

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imagine there's enough I think the best

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way to do it was if you had Indian

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friends and you you went to their houses

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and you saw how they eat and live uh you

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would experience very much Indian

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culture within people's houses Indian

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people were acceptance of like British

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yeah I think in this country they're

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very much acceptance of British people

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it's maybe the other way around

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yeah that's a good point yeah they're

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very very Hospital Indian people are if

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you go into their homes they'll they'll

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very easily volunteer food for you drink

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for you tea for you whatever you want

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yeah incredible yeah I kind of

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stumped when it comes to empirical

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history in terms of like I could say

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about a Roman imperial history but I'm

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I'm not I honestly have no idea I would

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never learned it and why do you think

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that is why do things it was a bit

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embarrassing for the British for a long

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time uh you know white British people

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um said the East India Company went in

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there about 1750 British Empire took

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over 1850 and by 1950 Britain had taken

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13 billion pounds and that's a

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conservative estimate sorry trillion

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pounds out of India so really they kind

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of plundered it uh took a lot of money

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out of it and so it's probably been a

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bit embarrassing for Britain to come to

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terms with its its history its Colonial

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relationship with India and there's a

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bit of a guilt in teaching oh yeah

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massively there's anything you know

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about the Empire especially in this like

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when it comes to India yeah I mean not

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not really I mean I know a bit about

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Anglo-Saxons and things that I'm

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probably never gonna use

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um I think it's a little bit to try and

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be as inoffensive as possible like if

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you learn the easy history as opposed to

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the stuff that you know you if you have

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to learn about

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the UK and its recent history yeah

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there's good parts and bad parts yeah

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exactly yeah and for a teacher it's

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probably easier to not talk about any of

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it I love practicing teachers because

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they get it from above yeah they answer

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to someone and then that someone goes

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well I could we could look at a

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curriculum that makes people think or we

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could get a curriculum that makes people

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learn who the Egyptian pharaohs were

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yeah we have a kind of colonial

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responsibility backpack I'll tell my

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students that we sort of could carry

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around but some people just reject it

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and won't discuss it others talk about

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it a bit but are very defensive and

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other people are like yeah we need to

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own this and sort of and then move on if

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you could like theoretically take

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something from Indian culture into

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Indian people and put it into like

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British culture rich people what was

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like a big highlight that you take from

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from that that would improve British

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culture British people maybe their

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emphasis on Hospitality

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they seem quite hospitable they seem

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very hard working as well as people good

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answer they're very committed and

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dedicated when you go to a um restaurant

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and then you like order it order food

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it's every thing even if you order it

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yourself everything is for the table you

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don't have to ask anyone everyone shares

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yeah

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family means everything to them

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so again sorry living in harmony okay

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appreciating life everything that's

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around them you know

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um just the little things it's Just

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Energy a lot of Life appreciating the

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little things which is a big thing

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which is a big part of the new culture

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thanks for watching this week's episode

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let us know in the comments below your

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experience of India or of Indian culture

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and as always we'll see you next time

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Tara

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India will probably eclipse the UK very

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soon and uh probably might even eclipse

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the whole of Europe given the pace of

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the growth and like you know their human

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development index in the last five years

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has gone from you know

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here to on par with Europe

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it's happened very very quickly