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🗓️ 11 February 2020
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Ithra and Tumelo have the world at their feet. Both 24, both in the last year of medical school, both from loving families, and in love. Ithra is Asian and Tumelo black, and both are born in post-apartheid South Africa (part of the Born Free generation). But is love enough to keep them together as they prepare to introduce their families to each other for the first time?
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0:00.0 | Do you have a thing for people of my race? |
0:05.0 | My race. |
0:07.0 | My friends would say that, but I don't think so. |
0:16.0 | I think no I think I'm general but people do say I do have the kind of a thing. |
0:20.0 | Blaition is a social media tag that's gaining steam. |
0:26.0 | Its relationships between black and Asian people. |
0:30.0 | I'm Megamohan and in this week's the documentary on the BBC World Service |
0:36.4 | we're looking at Blasian love which comes with its own set of challenges. |
0:47.0 | Have you ever been racially abused by someone of my race? Yes I have. |
0:50.0 | And perhaps nowhere more so than in South Africa. |
0:57.0 | So, what second line? |
0:59.0 | Do you remember it? |
1:00.0 | Have you learned it? |
1:01.0 | At a small study room tucked in a corner behind the carols of their university library, |
1:06.0 | a young couple in their early 20s huddle close together. |
1:10.0 | They're preparing for their final year exams. |
1:13.0 | Your handwriting is remarkable. |
1:16.0 | This is the worst it can get. |
1:18.0 | Like this is because this is me scrolling because it's anti-deeds. |
1:20.0 | If this is the worst you've done, which is all the letters are the same size |
1:24.4 | they're completely legible neatly ordered and then in contrast we have |
1:29.8 | we have some Lolo's notes. This is my best handwriting. |
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