Yes, even though the film has a focus on England, it is still a part of Britain and I felt I had to make this point because the British Empire can be seen as playing a vital role towards the portrayed negativity of English people against southern Asians. The British Empire had at its highest power was called an empire where the sun never set because of its increasing spread across terroritories around the world. One of the countries that the British Empire had ruled was India until its independence in 1947, when they also split from Pakistan into, at least initially, Muslim and Hindu nations.
The point about this that I’m trying to make is that the English that Combo associates with think that south Asians have come to their homeland and have taken their jobs and positions when it was just a few decades earlier that it was the British going to India and literally taking over their land. I found irony in Combo’s anger at least for this point.
(But then again the irony should exist for racists in general regarding this)
