Past and present attitudes to Romanian and Bulgarian immigration in the UK
>full text & illustration (c) BBC HISTORY, 2013
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Why DracuLand still stokes British anxieties
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Bulgaria, Dracula, Eastern Europe, Great Britain, immigrants, migration, Romania, Stereotyping, UK on 17 May 2013 by delclemWittgenstein in Ireland
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, Great Britain, Ireland, Ludwig Wittgenstein, philosophy, UK on 21 October 2012 by delclem
The late Austrian British philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein spent the
last years of his life partly in Ireland. >chronicle >article
Nazi merchandising?
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Australia, Austria, branding, Germany, Hitler, India, media, men's wear, merchandising, UK on 31 August 2012 by delclem
“A MEN’S clothes store in India is being asked to change its name after the chosen ‘Hitler’ upsets the local community.”
Summer canard, naïveté or evil business – taking the vile merchandising & ‘branding’ of Nazi history a step further…?
And what is the Gandhi-Tshirt suupposed to mean?
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Titanic Centenary
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Atlantic, naval disaster, Titanic, UK, USA on 15 April 2012 by delclem
100 years ago, the Titanic hit an iceberg in the North Atlantic and sank.
