Malala, to stay in Britain permanently

[lastlid]

Oh stop snivelling man.

You know exactly what I was driving at.

Snivelling

Not really. Though I am prepared to believe that you used the wrong word unintentionally. If I was a Pakistani on this forum I would have been offended with your statement.

[grahamw48]

Snivelling

Not really. Though I am prepared to believe that you used the wrong word unintentionally. If I was a Pakistani on this forum I would have been offended with your statement.

Listen my friend, I live in the real world.
I work closely with work colleagues from the sub-continent every day of the week. I have visited Pakistan, India and several other Asian countries as well as the middle east and Africa. Worked and lived for many years overseas too.

Yesterday I was in Broad Street Birmingham meeting with a Pakistani Managing Director and then delivering a (technology-based) training session to a group of 30 or so of his employees who were from diverse religions, races and cultures...including a white Scottish Muslim woman.

Copy and paste away, but please don't make assumptions about your audience, miss-interpret their posts or attempt to put your own spin on them.

[lastlid]

Listen my friend, I live in the real world.
I work closely with work colleagues from the sub-continent every day of the week. I have visited Pakistan, India and several other Asian countries as well as the middle east and Africa. Worked and lived for many years overseas too.

Yesterday I was in Broad Street Birmingham meeting with a Pakistani Managing Director and then delivering a (technology-based) training session to a group of 30 or so of his employees who were from diverse religions, races and cultures...including a white Scottish Muslim woman.

Copy and paste away, but please don't make assumptions about your audience, miss-interpret their posts or attempt to put your own spin on them.

So why use the words "stoneage country" except to be derogatory. You put your own spin on it when you used those words. My friend.

BTW. You aren't the only person on the planet that is well travelled or worked or lived overseas or spent a lot of time in the third world / developing world. You are not special in that way.