Day Trippers by https://padlet.com/miha/1x9gr0m6aenxdjtp en-us 2023-11-16 07:09:03 UTC 2023-11-24 09:34:49 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/miha/1x9gr0m6aenxdjtp/wish/2801655903 Wealthy


]]> 2023-11-24 09:05:14 UTC https://padlet.com/miha/1x9gr0m6aenxdjtp/wish/2801655903 He has a type, anything but Asian. More specificly no south Asian, no Indian, Pakistani or Bengali women. https://padlet.com/miha/1x9gr0m6aenxdjtp/wish/2801656026 2023-11-24 09:05:24 UTC https://padlet.com/miha/1x9gr0m6aenxdjtp/wish/2801656026 https://padlet.com/miha/1x9gr0m6aenxdjtp/wish/2801656246 They are living very british lives

]]> 2023-11-24 09:05:40 UTC https://padlet.com/miha/1x9gr0m6aenxdjtp/wish/2801656246 Theme: amandamarkussen https://padlet.com/miha/1x9gr0m6aenxdjtp/wish/2801656587 Identity crisis

Missing culture


]]> 2023-11-24 09:06:03 UTC https://padlet.com/miha/1x9gr0m6aenxdjtp/wish/2801656587 He has two children, Sophie and Hannah. https://padlet.com/miha/1x9gr0m6aenxdjtp/wish/2801656811 2023-11-24 09:06:15 UTC https://padlet.com/miha/1x9gr0m6aenxdjtp/wish/2801656811 He is married to Aisling, he met her after uni, he was intrigued by her red hair and green eyes. https://padlet.com/miha/1x9gr0m6aenxdjtp/wish/2801657071 2023-11-24 09:06:32 UTC https://padlet.com/miha/1x9gr0m6aenxdjtp/wish/2801657071 https://padlet.com/miha/1x9gr0m6aenxdjtp/wish/2801657691 She doesn't feel well in her relationship so she overcompensates when she meets her old friend Aisling.

]]> 2023-11-24 09:07:09 UTC https://padlet.com/miha/1x9gr0m6aenxdjtp/wish/2801657691 Ending https://padlet.com/miha/1x9gr0m6aenxdjtp/wish/2801657699 At the end Parminder opens every window. She feels free, happy and new. She's re-connected to her culture.

"She found herself smiling as she got up and wandered through the house opening every window."


]]> 2023-11-24 09:07:09 UTC https://padlet.com/miha/1x9gr0m6aenxdjtp/wish/2801657699 https://padlet.com/miha/1x9gr0m6aenxdjtp/wish/2801659286 She's a stranger in a strange land

]]> 2023-11-24 09:08:50 UTC https://padlet.com/miha/1x9gr0m6aenxdjtp/wish/2801659286 https://padlet.com/miha/1x9gr0m6aenxdjtp/wish/2801659347 Buying everything from the "right" stores


"Weekly grocery shops at Waitrose, or Ocado delivery with topups from Sainsbury. The children's clothes were from Boden, Joules - with little bits from Next and H&M; the furniture from House of Fraser, John Lewis and, only occasionally, Ikea." (7)


These stores all assimilate whiteness, produced and made for white pepole. They are all european westernized stores.

]]> 2023-11-24 09:08:55 UTC https://padlet.com/miha/1x9gr0m6aenxdjtp/wish/2801659347 https://padlet.com/miha/1x9gr0m6aenxdjtp/wish/2801660025 "It took Gurpreet a while to wonder if they really needed to change the decor and furniture every other year and did the kids really need a seasonal wardrobe?"


Sign of wealth

]]> 2023-11-24 09:09:40 UTC https://padlet.com/miha/1x9gr0m6aenxdjtp/wish/2801660025 https://padlet.com/miha/1x9gr0m6aenxdjtp/wish/2801660162 Normal, white and boring

]]> 2023-11-24 09:09:48 UTC https://padlet.com/miha/1x9gr0m6aenxdjtp/wish/2801660162 https://padlet.com/miha/1x9gr0m6aenxdjtp/wish/2801660330 She gets tired of all the cultures in her life. Her parents was very traditionel Indian, so she took distance from it. She later did the same with the upperclass English culture.

]]> 2023-11-24 09:09:59 UTC https://padlet.com/miha/1x9gr0m6aenxdjtp/wish/2801660330 https://padlet.com/miha/1x9gr0m6aenxdjtp/wish/2801660585 "She preferred her men pale and interesting"

]]> 2023-11-24 09:10:16 UTC https://padlet.com/miha/1x9gr0m6aenxdjtp/wish/2801660585 https://padlet.com/miha/1x9gr0m6aenxdjtp/wish/2801661168 little bit racist

"Gurpreet overheard Aisling telling the girls about their proud Irish heritage" She tells the kids about her heritage but don't want them to know about their indian heritage

]]> 2023-11-24 09:10:56 UTC https://padlet.com/miha/1x9gr0m6aenxdjtp/wish/2801661168 https://padlet.com/miha/1x9gr0m6aenxdjtp/wish/2801661329 "Parminder called her mum and scolded her thoughtlessness."

]]> 2023-11-24 09:11:09 UTC https://padlet.com/miha/1x9gr0m6aenxdjtp/wish/2801661329 https://padlet.com/miha/1x9gr0m6aenxdjtp/wish/2801662054 "The children's clothes were from Boden, Joules - with little bits from Next and H&M; the furniture from House of Fraser, John Lewis and, only occasionally, Ikea."

She likes the good stuff

]]> 2023-11-24 09:12:07 UTC https://padlet.com/miha/1x9gr0m6aenxdjtp/wish/2801662054 https://padlet.com/miha/1x9gr0m6aenxdjtp/wish/2801662187 Parminder and Gurpreet don't want to distance themselves from their home culture anymore.

"they didn't want to be tourists - daytrippers into their own cultures - anymore."

]]> 2023-11-24 09:12:19 UTC https://padlet.com/miha/1x9gr0m6aenxdjtp/wish/2801662187 https://padlet.com/miha/1x9gr0m6aenxdjtp/wish/2801662766 They specifically avoid their own culture and religion


"Parminder couldn't believe how little her mother knew her. From time to time food parcels were delivered, all based on the fact that she had loved Indian sweets as a child. (...) She didn't notice when the parcels stopped arriving." (9)

]]> 2023-11-24 09:12:59 UTC https://padlet.com/miha/1x9gr0m6aenxdjtp/wish/2801662766 Messages amandamarkussen https://padlet.com/miha/1x9gr0m6aenxdjtp/wish/2801663160 Opressing society - England

Their kids - "Parminder started to play bhangra in the car when she took the kids to school. When they complained, she turned up the volume."


Their spouse "One year Aisling was convinced the clothes had a strange odour and threw them in the bin."


"They didn't want to be tourists - daytrippers into their own cultures - anymore."

]]> 2023-11-24 09:13:28 UTC https://padlet.com/miha/1x9gr0m6aenxdjtp/wish/2801663160 His family changes their decor and furniture every other year. https://padlet.com/miha/1x9gr0m6aenxdjtp/wish/2801663216 2023-11-24 09:13:34 UTC https://padlet.com/miha/1x9gr0m6aenxdjtp/wish/2801663216 https://padlet.com/miha/1x9gr0m6aenxdjtp/wish/2801663827 The social environment changes when Parminder and Gurpreet finally get together.


"Down on the streets they felt a rush of recklessness and ran, hand in hand through the streets towards the bright lights."

]]> 2023-11-24 09:14:23 UTC https://padlet.com/miha/1x9gr0m6aenxdjtp/wish/2801663827 Takes charge at the restaurant and makes sure everything is in order https://padlet.com/miha/1x9gr0m6aenxdjtp/wish/2801664099 2023-11-24 09:14:46 UTC https://padlet.com/miha/1x9gr0m6aenxdjtp/wish/2801664099 When he sees Parminder, he knows that she has waited for him. https://padlet.com/miha/1x9gr0m6aenxdjtp/wish/2801664402 2023-11-24 09:15:07 UTC https://padlet.com/miha/1x9gr0m6aenxdjtp/wish/2801664402 https://padlet.com/miha/1x9gr0m6aenxdjtp/wish/2801666002 They finally feel at peace. Coming back to their roots, to their childhood makes them feel whole again.


"Gurpreet and Parminder felt underdressed. But here they belonged, here they were comfortable."

]]> 2023-11-24 09:16:47 UTC https://padlet.com/miha/1x9gr0m6aenxdjtp/wish/2801666002 Gurpreet and Parminder go to Diwali together, they felt underdressed but they felt like they belonged. https://padlet.com/miha/1x9gr0m6aenxdjtp/wish/2801666305 2023-11-24 09:17:10 UTC https://padlet.com/miha/1x9gr0m6aenxdjtp/wish/2801666305 They feed each other traditional indian food. Gurpreet felt more ethnic than before. https://padlet.com/miha/1x9gr0m6aenxdjtp/wish/2801667562 2023-11-24 09:18:36 UTC https://padlet.com/miha/1x9gr0m6aenxdjtp/wish/2801667562 https://padlet.com/miha/1x9gr0m6aenxdjtp/wish/2801667661 "One night the kids walked in on him attempting to tie a pugri. They ran away screaming and Aisling told Gurpreet to stop scaring her children."

]]> 2023-11-24 09:18:43 UTC https://padlet.com/miha/1x9gr0m6aenxdjtp/wish/2801667661 He decides that his children should learn Punjabi. https://padlet.com/miha/1x9gr0m6aenxdjtp/wish/2801667989 2023-11-24 09:19:06 UTC https://padlet.com/miha/1x9gr0m6aenxdjtp/wish/2801667989 He grows out his beard and hair, in the traditional Sikh way. https://padlet.com/miha/1x9gr0m6aenxdjtp/wish/2801669044 2023-11-24 09:20:23 UTC https://padlet.com/miha/1x9gr0m6aenxdjtp/wish/2801669044 https://padlet.com/miha/1x9gr0m6aenxdjtp/wish/2801669340 "After he put the boys to bed David told Parminder that her behaviour was confusing them" David don't like her culture


]]> 2023-11-24 09:20:46 UTC https://padlet.com/miha/1x9gr0m6aenxdjtp/wish/2801669340 He is a dynamic character https://padlet.com/miha/1x9gr0m6aenxdjtp/wish/2801669824 2023-11-24 09:21:17 UTC https://padlet.com/miha/1x9gr0m6aenxdjtp/wish/2801669824 https://padlet.com/miha/1x9gr0m6aenxdjtp/wish/2801673481 There is no real sense of home until the other half of the text, when Parminder and Gurpreet start touristing around England, spending time with each other and all of a sudden it appears to them that they finally feel comfortable with their cultural background.

]]> 2023-11-24 09:25:19 UTC https://padlet.com/miha/1x9gr0m6aenxdjtp/wish/2801673481 https://padlet.com/miha/1x9gr0m6aenxdjtp/wish/2801678727 She is a dynamic character.

We learn about her feeling, her dreams and her past

]]> 2023-11-24 09:31:02 UTC https://padlet.com/miha/1x9gr0m6aenxdjtp/wish/2801678727 https://padlet.com/miha/1x9gr0m6aenxdjtp/wish/2801681239 "He'd met Aisling after uni. Her red hair, green eyes and soft Irish accent were exotic"

]]> 2023-11-24 09:33:45 UTC https://padlet.com/miha/1x9gr0m6aenxdjtp/wish/2801681239 https://padlet.com/miha/1x9gr0m6aenxdjtp/wish/2801682437 "David wanted to go to couple-counselling and when Parminder refused, he broke down and sobbed that he had no idea who she was anymore."

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