Guyfawkes celebrations to be replaced with aBengali fold tale?

[pitstopbunny]

What has happened to Nov 5th, the time we celebrate the thwarting of the gunpowder plot.... it has been replaced by a Bengali folk tale - what are your veiws on this - political correctness gone too far?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles /news/news.html?in_article_id=414098&in_pa ge_id=1770&ico=Homepage&icl=TabModule& amp;icc=NEWS&ct=5

[Lonnie]

prattler, Guy Fawkes is not just for kids, by celebrating the failed Gunpwder Plot, we'er also teaching them about part of our history, its a shame its dying out in favour of Halloween

This year, is the first that i've seen no kids asking for 'Penny for the Guy', if i'm approached, I ask them three questions, (1) who was guy Fawkes, (2) what did he try to do, (3) and how did he try to do it. no money uless they answer all three correctly, no money, but I give them a chance to go away and find out.

[pitstopbunny]

Good answer, I get a bit fed up with being intimated everytime I try to go into my local shop, maybe I'll try the 3 question approach next time!

[Lonnie]

Hi Pitstop, , the reasoning behind that, is because I used to do it, (no menacing), no reason why they can't, but I believe they have to know what its about before they can earn anything out of it.

[reinganum]

Absolutely not! But if the local Hindu population are thinking, "Guy Fawkes doesn't mean much to us, but we enjoy fireworks, so let's celebrate something from our own culture, on the same day", that's fine with me.

What horrifies me is the thought of councils, or other officials, trying to dictate to us what we ought, or ought not, to be celebrating. Customs are always best done "bottom-up", never "top-down".

[NH]

What needs to be remembered here is that this always happens with one council, who, chances are, are either well-meaning or just overthinking things; the Daily Mail inevitably picks up on it, declaring it an outrage, Mail readers then get outraged, and resentment over multiculturalism occurs. It's really no big deal. The moral of the story is

CHILL OUT!!!

[NH]

Oh, and also:

Shiva- Coolest. Hindu. God. Ever.

[Lonnie]

A bit strange actually, Talking to my newsagent, he's Hindu, he said that all Hindu festivals for the year are finished, also, even though we don't live in Hackney, he said friends of his aren't to happy with it,