Nadiya Hussain and Tan France | Cheltenham Literature Festival 2019
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- Опубликовано: 10 фев 2025
- The Great British Bake Off meets Queer Eye as Nadiya Hussain and Tan France share tales of growing up as a South Asian in British society.
Prepare yourself for some shocking and some shockingly funny stories.
Recorded at Cheltenham Literature Festival on Sunday 13 October 2019.
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Both Tan and Nadiya: Brilliant, funny, talented, insightful, culturally important, and *exquisitely* beautiful! I can't get enough of either of them, so this video was pure joy!
I think it's so important when she talks about making space. Our Asian culture teaches us to be meek and respectful but that really doesn't help you in this world, sadly.
Especially when you're a woman, you need to fight for your space. I remember recently that I was at a job I had been hired for for the past 8 months or so. And they had written my name wrong. So when I turned up and said my name, the receptionist couldn't find me. So she said "I only have an Anita here" and I said very casually to her "well, my name is Atia. But if you don't need me I'll just go then"
And she got all flustered and tried to find someone to confirm it was me. I made sure they wouldn't write my name wrong again. And the next time I got there, they had written Anita again, crossed it out and written my name behind it.
Seriously, I've been working there for so long. I really don't care what your excuse is but you need to write my name right. It has been misspelled and mispronounced often enough. I help you once and then you'll have to swim alone. It's really not that hard and I don't take this disrespect anymore.
I have read all of Tan’s book and saw some of Nadiya’s Time To Eat and love them both for all the joy they share and the inspiration they provide for setting self soothing goals for others to pursue happiness. This is also a great progressive discussion about gender norms and orientation. They are strong people who are also both beautiful, whose sharing of gifts takes the weight away from appearance labels and places social emphasis on their goals and causes. I want to read Nadiya’s story and have a full perspective on her pain in childhood while I am glad to know she has a loving husband who seems to share household domestic work more than a lot of men in the United States though I am thinking of my parents’ generation more than millennials and think each generation adjusts their approach to sharing work to fix problems parents had and find more personal happiness. I hope England’s cultural conversations continue to shift from emphasis on appearance of all the groups of people present in their country to seeing value and sharing joy with individuals and eventually reach a place where psychology is not a feared sign of mental health trouble but more a different lens to look through to understand a cultural situation with less distraction from cultural assumptions that were from past generations less able to identify or investigate their fears about people who live with different appearances and different normals.
In an aside, I love that I live in a time that videos like this are easily accessible on the internet so if you wonder what to talk about with someone who has different race or religion from you, it is easy to find a podcast or vlog video or have a conversation on Wakie voip app or just look at stray cats of Iran and Egypt on Snapchat’s Snap map and Instagram and TikTok to feel like you shared an experience with someone from those places that wasn’t tense or consequential. Maybe you get a story to set up conversation that makes your first friendship with that cultural group. I see a Pakistani-American doctor in my own community and it’s not professional to speak with him in much personal detail and be fully a person beyond the daily machinery like function of my body, but I had read some Deepak Chopra on the subject of saints and made some friends from Egypt and Saudi Arabia while studying abroad and even visited a museum with Muslim art on exhibit so I was able to briefly empathize with him when his place of worship was vandalized by ignorant people. It was easier to add another drop in the bucket of understanding and acceptance of different people in the community and not be assumed ignorant or challenge his comfort here. I find it hard to have full friendships with him or my dad’s boss who has Hindustani heritage because they are middle aged married men. But it’s easy to appreciate them because there are books and stories and films and tv and podcasts from other people like them who want to entertain and educate, and it’s easy to practice comfort with being around them through RUclips, TikTok, Snap Map and Wakie.
Loved this interview. You can clearly see Nadiya and Tan's sincere admiration for each other.
Came in as a Tan stan, and now leaving as a Tan AND Nadiya stan! Loved this discussion, you guys are both amazing! 🥰
Thank you for bringing to me and everyone else, two of my very favorite people whom I met via Netflix, years ago, and a big THANK YOU to Netflix as well. Tan and Nadiya fairly jumped off the screen into my home and my heart, and I truly thank both of them for sharing so much of who they are, with the rest of us. I feel as if I know them for many years, have watched them mature and develop their skills, becoming who they are now, still redolent with intelligence, honesty, talent, skill, humor and humility as well. BLESSINGS on their heads. We are so fortunate to have access to them via Netflix. Bravi! and Carry on!
I was mainly a Nadiya fan, but I now I love Tan as well. What a great conversation. It just flows. Heartbroken to hear about the abuse, though. All the power to you guys!!! 🎆💞🎆💞🎆💞🎆💞
What a beautiful informative interview. The strength, passion and love these two individuals have for their jobs, families and surrounding is beautiful. I love Tan and I love Nadiya. They are both incredibly exceptional human beings that fought hard to get where they are together. YES TO MORE DIVERSITY. YES TO MORE INCLUSIVITY. THIS IS THE BRITAIN I LOVE.
Never knew I need this, thank you Nadiya and France for sharing. Beautifully said now, I’m gonna find your book
this is so special.. love them both so much!
My favorite 2 celebs together 😍😍😍😍
I watch Nadia's season over and over the same with Tan. I need to read both books. Thank you both this was beautiful and caring. The world needs really to watch and see the love both have.
I love both of these beautiful humans ❤️
Wow so much generalisation in this interview. I am from the same culture as her and my view is totally different. Just because she experienced certain things it's not right for her to say "in our culture....." as in she speaks for all of us.
@@hiromiw649 totally agree. Unfortunately there are a number of things she says that make it sound like South Asians and Bangladeshis are backwards. Not everyone has had the experience she has or the same mentality she may have experienced!
What it shows is that not all people from a certain country have the same culture. Culture isn't like that in reality, not in any country, and even less in religions. She is speaking the truth about her own family's culture.
Totally Amazing !! LOVED IT !!!
This was wonderful. Love you both 🇩🇲🇬🇧🥰
I love them so much!!!
What an inspiring and honest interview.
Enjoyed that very much🙂
I love my Tanni.......🇬🇧
Nadia......🥰.....🇬🇧
Truly enjoyed watching. Cannot help wandering why the festival chose that seating arrangement.......looked kind of uncomfortable.......better if they had had an oversized comfy chair each with a table between them......much easier for their cups.
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I love them both so much 🥰
I just found out this interview from tan and Nadia baking
Enjoyed it
I think, Tan bears a little resemblance to Ranbir Kapoor.
Nadiya for Prime Minister 👍
They’re desperate for that son (who will not actually be there for them when they’re old and weak). Pathetic.
Tan France, let me just say, you are WRONG. Mary, Mel, and Sue for life!!!