Kieran Healy’s Weblog Sociology and other distractions

Posted
22 January 2007 @ 7pm

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You Know, Like Squirrels

Back during the Katrina Disaster, we learned that whereas black people loot things from grocery stores, white people find things in grocery stores. Now that a container ship has foundered off the English coast we can see what it is the English do under similar circumstances. Not looting, obviously (perish the thought). But not passive “finding,” either. Truer to the Spirit of the Blitz, the Brits make the best of it and forage.


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