https://almostwitty.dreamwidth.org/ almostwitty - Dreamwidth Studios Fri, 12 Feb 2010 16:50:10 GMT LiveJournal / Dreamwidth Studios almostwitty personal https://v2.dreamwidth.org/18089358/162179 https://almostwitty.dreamwidth.org/ 95 100 https://almostwitty.dreamwidth.org/297178.html Fri, 12 Feb 2010 16:50:10 GMT https://almostwitty.dreamwidth.org/297178.html <p>Thanks to <a href="http://twitter.com/bloggerheads/status/9015998792">@bloggerheads</a> and <a href="http://www.b3ta.com/links">b3ta</a> for pointing me to this amazing late-70s UK video, celebrating the diversity of London by &#8230; having the great Derek Griffiths impersonate a Chinese man by pulling on his eyebrows and singing about <a href="http://www.codehot.co.uk/lyrics/abcd/bluemink/meltingpot.htm">Chinkies</a>, with a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Mink">popular UK song from 1969</a> celebrating the &#8216;melting&#8217; pot&#8217; of the UK.</p> <p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Griffiths">Derek Griffiths</a>, btw, was the amiable black host of many a childrens&#8217; TV show back in the 1970s and early 80s. I feel like my childhood has just been urinated on. But I can&#8217;t stop watching it&#8230;</p> <p><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/VhmZFNfiuqE&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en_US&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/VhmZFNfiuqE&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en_US&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="sameDomain" width="425" height="344"></embed></object></p> <p style="text-align: right"><small>Mirrored from <a href="http://www.almostwitty.com/being-british-chinese/diversity-in-the-uk-late-70s-style" title="Read Original Post">almost witty</a>.</small></p><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=almostwitty&ditemid=297178" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments https://almostwitty.dreamwidth.org/297178.html racism being british-chinese diversity wtf london 1970s public 0