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Thread #113211   Message #2497802
Posted By: Will Fly
19-Nov-08 - 02:11 PM
Thread Name: The Weekly Walkabout (part 2.)
Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout (part 2.)
in 1950s England, however, my views would have been far less radical

It was an English government in the 1950s who invited many thousands of Jamaican workers to this country - the "Windrush" period - to help with the economy in the post-war period. Don't crack on about what was acceptable or unacceptable in the 1950s. I was there and you very much weren't. You haven't got the faintest idea what English culture and life was all about in the 1950s, or how the post-war period, for example, was very much affected in all sorts of ways by those returning from the experience of WW2. You can't imagine how people's ideas and philosophies in the '50s were coloured, for example, by the events of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, of Belsen. It affected those who'd lived through it as participants - and their ideas, mores and feelings affected how they coped with family life and their own children (such as me). You haven't got the weeniest concept of how it was in England in the 1950s. You were born on 1966 - I was married and just starting out as a professional musician in that year. I do remember the '50s and it was never the Golden Age of English Nationalism you've imagined it to be - never. Idiot!

You prove, once again, that you know nothing.