Re: CHAT: silly names, prepositions
| From: | andrew <hobbit@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, March 22, 2001, 1:22 |
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Am 03/21 02:38 David Peterson yscrifef:
> Saying "I-10" places you. It's THE 10 where I'm from. And I just refer to
> myself as American, disregarding all the other groups that try to lay claim
> on me.
>
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.
- andrew.
--
Andrew Smith, Intheologus hobbit@earthlight.co.nz
Lent: Living in Borrowed Time
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