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WillowTheWhisp · 25-11-2006, 07:55

The impression I got was that it was just a way of letting people see what other people are really like.

It made sense to me because I'm used to people having all sorts of weird pre-conceived ideas about Mormons when they don't really know anything about us. Stuff like all the men having lots of wives, teenage girls being kidnapped and sent to Salt Lake City, a tunnel under the Atlantic from Liverpool to Salt Lake, ritual sacrifices in the temples. It even came as a surprise to the photographer that our Bishop just dresses in an ordinary suit and tie like everybody else.

None of us got paid for being photographed and I didn't get paid for being interviewed about how I came to live in Accrington and what I like and dislike about the place and why I prefer to live in this area of town. I don't imagine anyone else who was photographed or interviewed got paid either, whatever their ethnic background so I'm just a bit puzzled about the opinion that's coming over that it's giving "more money to 'them' again".

Like I said the interviewer was a white Lancashireman and the photographer was a white woman from Yorkshire although originally from Dublin, but would it have mattered if either of them was black or brown or little green Martians with aerials comng out of their heads? They were paid in much the same way that a newspaper reporter gets paid or a wedding photographer gets paid - just for doing a job.

25-11-2006, 07:55	#71
WillowTheWhisp Resident Waffler Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Accrington, Hyndburn Posts: 18,142 Blog Entries: 14 Liked: 14 times Rep Power: 1062	Re: 11grand to discuss multiculturilism The impression I got was that it was just a way of letting people see what other people are really like. It made sense to me because I'm used to people having all sorts of weird pre-conceived ideas about Mormons when they don't really know anything about us. Stuff like all the men having lots of wives, teenage girls being kidnapped and sent to Salt Lake City, a tunnel under the Atlantic from Liverpool to Salt Lake, ritual sacrifices in the temples. It even came as a surprise to the photographer that our Bishop just dresses in an ordinary suit and tie like everybody else. None of us got paid for being photographed and I didn't get paid for being interviewed about how I came to live in Accrington and what I like and dislike about the place and why I prefer to live in this area of town. I don't imagine anyone else who was photographed or interviewed got paid either, whatever their ethnic background so I'm just a bit puzzled about the opinion that's coming over that it's giving "more money to 'them' again". Like I said the interviewer was a white Lancashireman and the photographer was a white woman from Yorkshire although originally from Dublin, but would it have mattered if either of them was black or brown or little green Martians with aerials comng out of their heads? They were paid in much the same way that a newspaper reporter gets paid or a wedding photographer gets paid - just for doing a job. __________________ Last edited by WillowTheWhisp; 25-11-2006 at 07:58.