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Re: CHAT: silly names, prepositions

From:andrew <hobbit@...>
Date:Thursday, March 22, 2001, 1:22
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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