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Nihal: 28/07/2010

28/07/2010

BBC Asian Network - Nihal, 28/07/2010

Yasmeen sits in for Nihal. Are you a failure if you're Asian and unemployed?

Yasmeen sits in for Nihal. Are you a failure if you're Asian and unemployed? Plus Yasmeen talks to Harleen Notay, the latest contestant eliminated from Britain's Next Top Model.

At 1, Yasmeen Khan asks 'Are you a failure if you're Asian and unemployed?'

Last night a programme on Channel Four featured an Asian man in his 40's who'd been unemployed for 3 years. He says he felt helpless and useless with mounting debts and also had feelings of suicide because he couldn't provide for his family. He said he felt like a failure. For the Asian man on the programme, he said he was ashamed because he wasn't being a man and his wife was the main breadwinner. If you're Asian and unemployed or found it really hard to find a job, were you supported by your family or were you expected to be a man and find any job? Do Asians have lots of pride and snub certain professions? Would you take any job because you had to support your family?

Call 08459 440 445, text 81869 or email Nihal@bbc.co.uk

At 2, Rezia Wahid, Tanvi Kant and Deirdre Figueiredo are all part of a project to get more recognition for the craft industries. they will be talking to Yasmeen about arts and crafts. Where do you buy your gold from? Is Asian jewelery the best?

Call 08459 440 445, text 81869 or email Nihal@bbc.co.uk


And at 2.30, Yasmeen will be talking to Harleen Notay the latest contestant to be eliminated from Britain's Next Top Model. She faced a dilemma in which her religion clashed with the duties of her profession, have you been in this situation? Can you seperate your faith from your job? And, is modelling for an Asian girl respectable?
Get our questions in for her call 08459 440 445, text 81869 or email Nihal@bbc.co.uk.

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