Re: CHAT: silly names, prepositions
From: | Frank George Valoczy <valoczy@...> |
Date: | Thursday, March 22, 2001, 1:37 |
> Waaah! It's at times like this I wish there was another New Zealander
> on this list so we could bore the rest of you lot to tears while we
> debated the merits of being a Pakeha New Zealander or a European New
> Zealander. The NZ Census occured only a month after Waitangi Day, our
> national day when our media debates ritually debates whether we are
> proud of being a nation or ashamed of what we did to the others before
> us to become a nation. The census asked us about our ethnicity, whether
> we were European New Zealanders or something else. Previous census
> forms had defined my tickbox as European New Zealander/Pakeha. I ticked
> Other and defined that as Pakeha, knowing full well that others who
> resent the whole guilt trip over ethnicity also ticked Other and wrote
> in New Zealander.
>
Hm, now I'm in the mood for a nice bowl of puha and pakeha =)
Anyway, at least I know there's one person on this list besides me who can
appreciate a nice piece of toast thickly covered in marmite. =)
-------ferko
Ferenc Gy. Valoczy
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