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A big eye-opener for me was a few years back, in Aston, Birmingham, where I'd been sent to install something or other in a shop/house occupied by an Indian family.

By my rough calculation, there were about 193 people living in the three-bedroom place, which was decorated pure Indian, and had the aroma of Indian food on the run-up to meal times.

The guy I was working with spat a few nasty comments to me about "bloody foreigners", and I confess that I felt a bit ungruntled myself, over the way the place was just so non-British.

But then I started chatting with the grandfather of the troupe, and he started telling me stories of the war, and how he'd brought his family to Blighty afterward.

It hit me square in the face that here was a guy who had been in numerous battles, and had bullets and artillery fired at him in anger, for "my" country.

It struck me that that's a Hell of a lot more than I've ever done for Britain, so what bloody right did I have to consider myself more British than he?

I ended up having a blazing row with my "mate", because he couldn't see the point, and wouldn't stop with the racist cr@p.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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