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paganel on Aug 30, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Kazuo Ishiguro (1989)

I think the interview shows its age, so to speak, I don’t think similar things would be said nowadays compared to 1989.

graeme on Aug 30, 2020 [–]

Notably that’s only 41 years after the handover in India, and 20-30 years after handovers in many other colonies.

Whereas we’re now at 72 and 51-61 years. Big time difference.

That doesn’t make him correct, but the comment has to be read about popular attitudes back then, not now.

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