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...English. The years have lent Indians and Pakistanis of old an ironic nobility; about them a Brit can feel at once guilty and nostalgic. Unless, of course, one has to deal with their sons and daughters on the streets of London. Now the Indo-Paks' manner is seen as rude and abrupt, their intellectual energy devoted to turning a quick quid, and in areas like South London there is a new caste system, with the immigrants running things and the working-class white "natives" in their employ. The Pakistanis and , the punks are inverting colonialism and reinventing capitalism. The empire...
...club I have these cold, icy stares that usually prevent rude comments. I walk around in an obnoxious way, sort of like 'I'm a personality here,"' Kelly says...
...Freshmen told me that they did believe his intentions were good. "We all know Sam's a nice guy," he said. "But his intent doesn't matter. We judged him according to his action." When I asked exactly what Sam was guilty of he replied that he was rude and disruptive...
...This rude shock paled in comparison to the one I got 20 minutes later, when I entered a Woolco and saw another Santa. This one declared that the other one was an impostor sent by the Heat Miser to destroy him, but be did not convince me in the least. He was Vietnamese, and could not have weighed over 130 pounds...
Graffiti breeds a kind of rude comaraderie among the authors. With a frankness they wouldn't approach in person, Harvard students advise, commiserate with, or rebuke each other in writing. Mostly, they rebuke...