Re: CHAT: silly names, prepositions

On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 01:17:57PM +1200, andrew wrote:
> 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.
>
> Ah, the joys of self-identity.
So did Jedism make it as an officially-recognized religion? :D

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Eric Christopherson / *Aiworegs Ghristobhorosyo

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