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Subject: Aren't Christmas songs illegal?

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Ed Harris (UK)

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Date Posted: 12:33:57 12/23/04 Thu
In reply to: Mister FCS 's message, "Commonwealth Christmas Songs" on 11:55:51 12/23/04 Thu

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2004/12/21/do2102.xml

Given the trend towards Americanisation of the British way of doing things, it won't be long before such awful things are seen over here.

I don't understand this concept of being "culturally oppressive" merely by having a culture. When I go to the Middle East, I don't stand at the bottom of minarets telling the Imam to shut up because he is insulting me as a non-Muslim by rubbing my nose in his 'majority' faith. No more, when I go to Europe, do I insist on the right to drive on the left.

A friend in New York, however, sends news of a song which goes:
"Screw the world,
Don't they know it's Chanukah?"
Band Aid should take that up, as it is much more in tune with modern thinking towards the 3rd World. "It's their mess and they can get themselves out of it." The idea of a responsibility to help Africa has been slowly killed off with colonialism.

Moreover, back in the 1970s when Britain was broke and begging for money from the IMF to keep us going, individual Britons gave more money to charity per capita than any country in the world; but now our economy is sorted and we're rich, fat, happy and complacent and have an unemployment total smaller than Luxemburg's, we give less than just about any other western country. Makes one think... and I also believe that we need a more plausible explanation than the argument that Mrs T made us all selfish.

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