{"id":28149,"date":"2022-10-25T06:54:57","date_gmt":"2022-10-25T06:54:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=28149"},"modified":"2022-10-25T06:54:59","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T06:54:59","slug":"asian-britons-celebrate-proud-moment-as-sunak-takes-on-top-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=28149","title":{"rendered":"Asian Britons celebrate &#8216;proud moment&#8217; as Sunak takes on top job"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Reuters:   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LONDON, Oct 24  &#8211; Rishi Sunak is set to become Britain&#8217;s first prime minister of colour on Tuesday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/uk\/sunak-looks-set-become-next-uk-pm-after-johnson-quits-race-2022-10-24\/\">an achievement<\/a> that many, particularly in the Asian community, held up as a cultural milestone standing out above the economic chaos and political tumult.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>News that a Hindu son of Indian immigrants had won the race to lead the ruling Conservative party raised cheers from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/indians-pinning-their-hopes-rishi-sunak-diwali-2022-10-24\/\">the streets of New Delhi<\/a>, packed with Diwali-celebrating crowds, to the shopping thoroughfares of west London.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Out on Southall High Street, pensioner Asma Choudry said she had been living in Britain for 42 years. &#8220;So it\u2019s a long time &#8230; Anything can happen, you know, when you are living in a multicultural society.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cYeah it\u2019s a proud feeling as an Indian, I like him,&#8221; said 25-year-old businessman Rishabh Sharma.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Further afield, Sunak&#8217;s ascent drew admiring comments from across the English Channel &#8211; a rare thing since Brexit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s worth noting Sunak will be the first British prime minister of Asian descent. I find it fascinating that it doesn\u2019t seem to cause any problem in Britain,&#8221; a senior European diplomat told Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Let\u2019s imagine the same situation in France or Germany. It\u2019d be much more complicated. I find this remarkable.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Britain, recognition even reached across political divides. Anas Sarwar, leader of the opposition Labour Party in Scotland, tweeted that it was important to mark the significance of the moment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters: LONDON, Oct 24 &#8211; Rishi Sunak is set to become Britain&#8217;s first prime minister of colour on Tuesday, an achievement that many, particularly in the Asian community, held up as a cultural milestone standing out above the economic chaos and political tumult. News that a Hindu son of Indian immigrants had won the race to lead the ruling Conservative party raised cheers from the streets of New Delhi, packed with Diwali-celebrating crowds, to the shopping thoroughfares of west London. Out on Southall High Street, pensioner Asma Choudry said she had been living in Britain for 42 years. &#8220;So it\u2019s&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28150,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28151,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28149\/revisions\/28151"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}