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| Thread ID: 115028 | 2010-12-29 08:44:00 | New research on Maori genealogy | ubergeek85 (131) | PC World Chat |
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| 1165478 | 2010-12-30 00:13:00 | One way or another, everything will still be the same with "poor me" hand outs and millions gone to waste. There is nothing really stopping them or any minority really until those occupants of the beehive find out what having testicles is all about. That won't happen under MMP.. |
paulw (1826) | ||
| 1165479 | 2010-12-30 00:51:00 | This has a certain ring to it. Three strangers strike up a conversation in the airport passenger lounge in Houston, Texas, while awaiting their respective flights. One is an American Indian from Lame Deer, Montana . Another is aCowboy on his way to Dallas for a livestock show & the third passenger is a fundamentalist Arab student, newly arrived in the U.S. from theMiddle East . Their discussion drifts to their diverse cultures. Soon, the two Westerners learn that the Arab is a devout, radical Muslim and the conversation falls into an uneasy lull The cowboy leans back in his chair, crosses his boots on a magazine table and tips his big sweat-stained hat forward over his face. The wind outside is blowing tumbleweeds around, and the old windsock is flapping; but still no plane comes. Finally, the American Indian clears his throat and softly he speaks, 'At one time here, my people were many, but sadly, now we are few.' The Muslim student raises an eyebrow and leans forward 'Once my people were few,' he sneers, 'and now we are many. Why do you suppose that is?' The cowboy shifts his toothpick to one side of his mouth and from the darkness beneath his Stetson says in a smooth drawl That's 'cause we ain't played Cowboys and Muslims yet, but I do believe it's a-comin'. |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 1165480 | 2010-12-30 01:20:00 | We all originally moved around the planet and "became various tribes/races/nations". Often the boundaries of those nations changed considerably in size. Sometimes they vanished altogether. Some of us moved to other land masses and joined with whoever was there and became a new group of people. Fussing about past ownership of pieces of land is a waste of time. Perhaps I should be in Belgium asking for my piece of Flanders back then? Or in Turkey complaining about the chunk of Hungary they took? |
pctek (84) | ||
| 1165481 | 2010-12-30 03:18:00 | Or in Wales and wanting England back from the Vikings ! But unfortunately Pctek most wars are or have been fought over land and religion. |
Digby (677) | ||
| 1165482 | 2010-12-30 05:01:00 | Is it clear to everyone what the Maoris are entitled to?, certainly isn't to me. I would have thought all you true born New Zealanders were taught at school what the story is.! |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 1165483 | 2010-12-30 05:03:00 | We were taught at school but the story is ever changing depending on who you hear it from. :( | Snorkbox (15764) | ||
| 1165484 | 2010-12-30 05:21:00 | We were taught at school but the story is ever changing depending on who you hear it from. :( Really not good enough,is it ? Can history change, I think not! |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 1165485 | 2010-12-30 05:30:00 | I don't really trust oral history much and here is why. en.wikipedia.org |
Snorkbox (15764) | ||
| 1165486 | 2010-12-30 05:50:00 | Tasmania had a different approach to their indigenous peoples in 1800s they dont have a problem now. | prefect (6291) | ||
| 1165487 | 2010-12-30 06:07:00 | Who is a Maori? Define Maori, is 1/26 a Maori or is that cherry picking your ancestry. Just because I am something like 20% British doesn't make me British. Maths tends to suggest over 50%+ ancestry/blood is a Maori, but we all know that view is hated in this country as the Maori electrol role would be reduced by 95% + lol. But this scam will keep on for decades yet! I'm not Maori, but I know a lot of them. They get kicked around a bit to be fair. |
The Error Guy (14052) | ||
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