A video shot by private high-end restaurant owners went viral on social media where they are seen insulting one of their managers as he falters in affecting an English accent following which the internet stands together unequivocally to cancel whom they term are colonial minds.
Soon after it launched into an online debate causing a fiasco for the hoteliers via a trend on social, where people said things ranging from something like ‘colonialism still persists despite departure of the colonialists’ to ‘elitism always feeding its ego at the expense of low- to middle income class people’, jumping into this debate was Shahbaz Taseer, who stepped up and offered the manager a job at his place.
Back to the social media trends, some also say while the Britishers have left the region but their servile continues to date in the form of an obsession for speaking meticulous English and that in an affected accent.
In the video shot by the owners themselves, they are found entertaining their audience at the expense of their hotel manager’s self-respect as they call him in the video and roast by challenging him to introduce himself in the English language.
“This is the beautiful English he speaks and [he is] at a very good salary package mind you,” she sarcastically remarked as he fails to string a sentence together being challenged to do so.
“We have paid for his English classes,” another chipped in.
As soon as the video went viral, social media coined the hashtag #BoycottCannoli which has so far swept in around 32.6 thousand tweets.
In the comments section of Facebook, people have reshared this post as well while they come up with a plethora of nuanced memes laying on record their dislike for the behavior and treatment meted out to a local manager.
It may be noted that soon after the social media debate, the Islamabad hotel released a statement justifying the banter which they suggest was only meant in a lighter mode.
