Rwandan celebrity adoptee unhappy with the UK
While it doesn’t reflect the views of all immigrants in Europe, this article does give a sense of the ingratitude and entitlement that many of them feel. No matter what the benefits are of socialism, you can’t avoid the fact that socialist states tend to encourage feelings of entitlement because that makes people more dependent on the state, setting up a self-perpetuating cycle. Immigrants like this are just taking a cue from the natives.
Five years ago he left a life of unimaginable hardship as a child soldier in war-torn Rwanda to join one of the most successful families in Britain.
Tindyebwa Agaba, the 20-year-old “adopted” son of Emma Thompson, has lived at the actress’s Hampstead home and had his university education paid for by her.
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Mr Agaba is now on a social and political degree course in Cambridge following his time at Exeter.
Quite a turn around. Not bad - his situation sounds better than mine! So what could be wrong?
Yet revealing for the first time his thoughts about Britain, it seems that Tindy - as the 48-year-old Oscar winner calls him - is not entirely happy with every aspect of his new life.
His most stinging criticism is for the celebrity culture, complaining of the “complete death of politically and socially stimulating activism which has been replaced by the pathetic celebrity culture and living a pretentious life”.
I can certainly understand that, although when actresses do get into activism, the results often aren’t that pretty. Besides, the “celebrity culture” may be responsible for his own situation; in recent years, adopting third-world children has become a celebrity fad of sorts; judging by Madonna, Angelina Jolie, Mia Farrow, etc. Moreover, his influential celebrity friends are probably the ones responsible for prolonging his stay in the country, since he never received official permission to remain.
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