Tuesday, March 09, 2004
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"On a completely unrelated note, if you're up early on Sunday mornings in Vancouver you can watch a K-Pop show on Channel 20. The nice V-jay speaks English and smiles a lot."
would this be who you are talking about there? soy I believe she is fairly fluent in Chinese as well as English and Korean.
To get back to the argument about "historical disadvantage". As my esteemed colleague says, there are so many other races, ethnic groups blah blah out there, that there is a case for all of us I am sure. Look at the treatment of the Scots by the English for example.
What the hell did all those Brits come to NZ for in the first place? What would motivate somebody to jump on a timber vessel and sail for several months to the other side of the world with nought but the clothes you are wearing? That's right, complete and utter poverty with no hope of a better life from where you were leaving due to "historical disadvantage" (otherwise known as the class system and racial difference).
Of course there were those who were more well off who made there way in our direction but there is a reason why you find Presbyterian churches from one end of NZ to the other.
The way Maori were treated by Pakeha virtually pales into insignificance when compared to how Koreans have been treated for hundreds of years by the Chinese and Japanese. And yes the Koreans are kicking up a hell of a fuss in order to get Japan to acknowledge what it has done, but as for priveleges and financial compensation.....well hello! Perhaps Japan could let Korean car manufacturers have first dibs on lucrative foreign markets...yeah right.
I'm not trying to make light of how certain groups in New Zealand have been treated but Maori in particular do tend to lose sight of the painful histories of other people as well. My father speaks fluent Maori and is well placed within the general Maori community and it is he that tells me much of these things.
I'm so tired. it's 3 am and if anything I wrote above seems like bollocks then it probably is and I'll change it later.
goodnight
bloggingitreal@yahoo.com
would this be who you are talking about there? soy I believe she is fairly fluent in Chinese as well as English and Korean.
To get back to the argument about "historical disadvantage". As my esteemed colleague says, there are so many other races, ethnic groups blah blah out there, that there is a case for all of us I am sure. Look at the treatment of the Scots by the English for example.
What the hell did all those Brits come to NZ for in the first place? What would motivate somebody to jump on a timber vessel and sail for several months to the other side of the world with nought but the clothes you are wearing? That's right, complete and utter poverty with no hope of a better life from where you were leaving due to "historical disadvantage" (otherwise known as the class system and racial difference).
Of course there were those who were more well off who made there way in our direction but there is a reason why you find Presbyterian churches from one end of NZ to the other.
The way Maori were treated by Pakeha virtually pales into insignificance when compared to how Koreans have been treated for hundreds of years by the Chinese and Japanese. And yes the Koreans are kicking up a hell of a fuss in order to get Japan to acknowledge what it has done, but as for priveleges and financial compensation.....well hello! Perhaps Japan could let Korean car manufacturers have first dibs on lucrative foreign markets...yeah right.
I'm not trying to make light of how certain groups in New Zealand have been treated but Maori in particular do tend to lose sight of the painful histories of other people as well. My father speaks fluent Maori and is well placed within the general Maori community and it is he that tells me much of these things.
I'm so tired. it's 3 am and if anything I wrote above seems like bollocks then it probably is and I'll change it later.
goodnight
bloggingitreal@yahoo.com
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