Re: British Paki and Proud - BBC2 tonight
There was a lot to take in with this program. I wonder how we would have felt had the program been spread over 4 weekly installments. Just the fact that we had a continuous 2 hours of it with no break may have put a different spin on how we received it. It was more like a 'Saturday Stack' on Discovery Channel' hence no time to rationalise.
The most succint line was by the guitar guy from Luton. It was all the more poignant for me because of its parallels with my own upbringing and life, and the fact that I have recently watched some old 8mm cine films of my family when we were growing up in the '70's and the same question kept going through my mind even before the BBC2 program.
...'In the end, has the price been worth paying'.