@barrettone 508591 wrote:
Pardon my French, but what the fuck? That just sounds very, very strange, petty, and childish.
I was equally shocked by it (although it was actually in a 2012 news report but happened in January 2010, which from memory was also a bitterly cold winter)
Today I would be more surprised if I dealt with an engineering firm in Birmingham and there wasn’t at least one British Asian there :laugh_at:
According to Iqbal, things are not improving. “Just a couple of years ago, we had a very big meeting at our place where some multinational companies were present. This was in January during a major snow situation and people drove for several hours in the snow to get to our factory.
“As soon as a couple of individuals walked in and they saw that we were coloured, they literally turned round, walked back out and drove back down to London.”
BBC News – The consequences of having a ?foreign? name
