Why Britain Imports American Problems - Tomiwa Owolade

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Konstantin Kisin & Francis Foster

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🗓️ 1 October 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Tomiwa Owolade is the author of ‘This is Not America: Why Black Lives in Britain Matter’, a book which was chosen as a non-fiction highlight of 2023 in The Times, Guardian, Observer, Irish Times and New Statesman. The book is available here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1838956212/ SPONSORED BY: ExpressVPN. Go to https://www.expressvpn.com/trigger/ and get an extra 3 months free on a one-year package! SPONSORED BY: Manscaped. Get 20% off and free shipping when you use the code TRIGGER20 at https://www.manscaped.com/ Become a Premium Member to receive exclusive benefits https://triggernometry.supercast.com/ OR Support TRIGGERnometry Here: Bitcoin: bc1qm6vvhduc6s3rvy8u76sllmrfpynfv94qw8p8d5 Music by: Music by: Xentric | info@xentricapc.com | https://www.xentricapc.com/ YouTube: @xentricapc Buy Merch Here: https://www.triggerpod.co.uk/shop/ Advertise on TRIGGERnometry: marketing@triggerpod.co.uk Join the Mailing List: https://www.triggerpod.co.uk/sign-up/ Find TRIGGERnometry on Social Media: https://twitter.com/triggerpod https://www.facebook.com/triggerpod/ https://www.instagram.com/triggerpod/ About TRIGGERnometry: Stand-up comedians Konstantin Kisin (@konstantinkisin) and Francis Foster (@francisjfoster) make sense of politics, economics, free speech, AI, drug policy and WW3 with the help of presidential advisors, renowned economists, award-winning journalists, controversial writers, leading scientists and notorious comedians. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This kind of pessimistic narrative, which we've mostly imported from America,
0:06.0	is simply inconsistent with reality.
0:10.0	I think it's indicative of a wider problem.
0:14.0	At the moment, in terms of culture, America is the metropole
0:19.0	and the UK is basically a colony.
0:22.0	There's a phrase that, again, we borrow from America,
0:25.0	which is, this is a country built a nation of immigrants.
0:29.0	I've read British history.
0:31.0	It's not a nation of immigrants.
0:32.0	It's not.
0:33.0	Why do we do that?
0:34.0	I think the reason why we do that is because we don't want to concede any point
0:42.0	to the anti-immigrants, conservative or far-right, whatever you want to call them.
0:47.0	But I think the best way to do that is to do it on the basis of truth,
0:51.0	rather than on the basis of any myth-making.
0:56.0	If you tell people enough times that they are the victims of racism,
1:02.0	they are the victims of oppression, they are the victims of discrimination,
1:07.0	they will inevitably see it everywhere.
1:20.0	Hello and welcome to Trigonometry. I'm Francis Foster.
1:25.0	And this is a show for you if you want honest conversations with fascinating people.
1:30.0	A brilliant guest today is a journalist and writer whose first book is called
1:35.0	This Is Not America, which is absolutely true.
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