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Asian women subjected to ´virginity tests´ at Heathrow
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1.       si++
3785 posts
 10 May 2011 Tue 01:23 pm

Asian women subjected to ´virginity tests´ at Heathrow

The government is facing calls for an official apology after documents showed that Asian women were subjected to humiliating “virginity tests” when they tried to move to Britain in the late 1970s.

At least 80 women from India and Pakistan hoping to emigrate to Britain to marry were intimately examined by immigration staff to “check their marital status”, according to confidential Home Office files.

The files show the practice was more common than previously thought.

The technique was banned in February 1979 after a national newspaper revealed that a 35-year-old Indian woman was examined by a male doctor at Heathrow to check whether she was in fact a virgin.

The Home Office initially denied that any internal examination had taken place.

The woman was offered £500 “in recognition” of distress caused but there was no apology.

 

Source: here

2.       libralady
5152 posts
 10 May 2011 Tue 02:48 pm

Well I had to check your source, but I must say it is a reputable one!  I am shocked that this happened.  I am speechless (and does not happen often {#emotions_dlg.whistle})!

3.       vineyards
1954 posts
 10 May 2011 Tue 11:05 pm

We don´t expect customs officers to be polite and considerate do we? They are just too preoccupied with mind reading, judgeing by the looks and stuff like that. Smallest possible suspicion is enough to send a person thousands of miles back home.

4.       Daydreamer
3743 posts
 10 May 2011 Tue 11:33 pm

That´s disgraceful {#emotions_dlg.puking}

 

5.       gokuyum
5050 posts
 13 May 2011 Fri 03:52 am

It seems dark ages are still attractive for some westerners too. It is also a relief they didn´t burn the women accusing them of being a witch.



Edited (5/13/2011) by gokuyum

6.       alameda
3499 posts
 13 May 2011 Fri 05:55 am

 

Quoting si++


............ February 1979 after a national newspaper revealed that a 35-year-old Indian woman was examined by a male doctor at Heathrow to check whether she was in fact a virgin.

The Home Office initially denied that any internal examination had taken place.

The woman was offered £500 “in recognition” of distress caused but there was no apology.

Source: here

 

No apology and only £500??? What a disgrace. 

7.       barba_mama
1629 posts
 20 May 2011 Fri 02:27 pm

I wonder why the newspaper in 1979 didn´t dig deeper, so that they would have discovered back than that it was more than just two women that it happened too. By the way, keep in mind that this was 1979, so that luckily this doesn´t happen anymore. To judge people today on this behaviour is wrong. I do think the government today should go back to the women that were found in those files that they discovered, and compensate them today, and say sorry.

8.       vineyards
1954 posts
 20 May 2011 Fri 07:12 pm

Let´s make a comparison between 1979 and the present time. I think from an intellectual point of view, the 70´s generation was a lot more restless, prolific and diversified. These points were reflected in the books they read, the wealth of social activities they got involved in and the social reaction they displayed. With all these in mind, we can say they were more complicated beings who were looking to achieve things beyond normal. Equality, freaternity and respect were among the those targets. They were in friction with the authority who saw nothing wrong with checking those ladies´ virginity.

Time has passed, technology has advanced, new generations revolutionized the technological aspects of our civilization. However, since the spirit of the 70´s was tactfully eradicated, all those advancements have served the powers that be making them stronger and omnipresent. Like silkworms, they weaved their coccoons practically imprisoning  themselves devoid of a chance to revolutionize the regimes and mentalities that enslave people.

9.       barba_mama
1629 posts
 20 May 2011 Fri 09:55 pm

 

Quoting vineyards

Let´s make a comparison between 1979 and the present time. I think from an intellectual point of view, the 70´s generation was a lot more restless, prolific and diversified. These points were reflected in the books they read, the wealth of social activities they got involved in and the social reaction they displayed. With all these in mind, we can say they were more complicated beings who were looking to achieve things beyond normal. Equality, freaternity and respect were among the those targets. They were in friction with the authority who saw nothing wrong with checking those ladies´ virginity.

Time has passed, technology has advanced, new generations revolutionized the technological aspects of our civilization. However, since the spirit of the 70´s was tactfully eradicated, all those advancements have served the powers that be making them stronger and omnipresent. Like silkworms, they weaved their coccoons practically imprisoning  themselves devoid of a chance to revolutionize the regimes and mentalities that enslave people.

 

I disagree. People like to paint the current society as consumerism at the top, no real heart or soul. I don´t think this is true, and I disagree that people in 1979 were more diversified. I think today´s world is more diversified than back than, especially with migration. I don´t think people back than wanted to achieve more than people now. The spirit of the 70s is overrated. 1979 didn´t have any of that spirit anyway, I don´t know why you would bring that spirit into this, since we´re talking about something horrible back than. But the spirit of the 1970s was using drugs and having sex with everybody for a great bunch of people. Nowadays we don´t call somebody like Amy Winehouse a "free spirit" but a junky, because that´s just the truth. I have talked to some hippies from those times who admitted that they just wore flowers in their hair because they knew it would help them score chicks. Just like there are people now who will buy biological food because they think they can score a chick in the food-section

10.       vineyards
1954 posts
 20 May 2011 Fri 11:11 pm

Barba, I am curious what your age is. Did you reach this conclusion after speaking to a few hippies? Meanwhile, how come you drew the conclusion that I was talking about flower boys?

It is evident that we are talking about a subject about which you know just about nothing.

Though I am not a 70´s guy myself, I have lived through the transition from one generation into another. Amy Whinehouse is a product of this society. She is not even a proper hippy. You probably associate her with the 70´s because she sounds a bit more intellectual than Britney Spears. Why don´t you realize that in addition to the junkies, there is a whole generation of 70´s musicians who set the standards for others. Ever heard Miles Davis or Leonard Cohen? Pink Floyd had their most productive period in the 70´s. 

Ultimately, we could talk about the presence of  Eurepean and American literatures, artists etc. Almost all the great names were already great back in the 70´s.

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