Robin Cook Chicken Tikka Masala Analysis

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1) The tone of the text is a little pessimistic, against the English people and the society. Saying that there is no such thing as Englishness, and that England is a country made of immigrants. He is talking a lot more positive about the English immigrants and especially the Indian immigrants. “The British are not a race, but a gathering of countless different races and communities.” This line shows us how he sees the English nation and its people, they are seen as a mixture of different races and group of people, which makes the Englishness look like it does not exists in today’s English nation. “The idea that Britain was a “pure” Anglo-Saxon society before the arrival of the communities from the Caribbean, Asia and Africa is Fantasy. But if this view of British identity is false to our past, it is false to our future too.” This line he tells us what the Englishness would have been if it existed, he tells us that the British identity is a false identity unless we see the immigrants as British people and as a part of that identity. Formal or informal. In the text Robin Cook talks in a formal language, we see that as he uses words that speaks to everybody in the English nation, and not only a specific group of people, this makes him look truth-worthy and the text has a professional tone, as well as a little hard on the English people who see them self as having Englishness. Categorize good or bad He talks about the English people coming together as a good thing. He talks badly about people who thinks that English people is a clean race. (Page 40 line 6-7). This part shows us what he thinks that the English people are. England is build up by romans and other cultures. There is no such thing as Englishness. London is built by romans. Immigrants are a part of England. (Page 39 line 32-35). Here he tells us about how London came to be, that it was built by
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