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| Thread ID: 66485 | 2006-02-24 23:41:00 | Are you a New Zealander or a European? | Scouse (83) | PC World Chat |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 433558 | 2006-03-04 03:21:00 | Japanese are reasonably pure..... Japanese 99%, others 1% (Korean 511,262, Chinese 244,241, Brazilian 182,232, Filipino 89,851, other 237,914) |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 433559 | 2006-03-04 03:46:00 | Not forgetting the original (and extant) inhabitants of the northermost island Hokkaido, who are (ethincially and culturally) Ainu. | mark c (247) | ||
| 433560 | 2006-03-04 05:49:00 | This from some article . Australians are asked in their census if they are Australian, Canadian are asked if they are Canadian, in the US, people are asked if they are a United States’ citizen . But in New Zealand, there is no question that allows you to state that you are a New Zealander . This has caused such indignation that someone recently put pen to paper to produce an email message “Are you a New Zealander?” It asks people to read it then pass it on . So far I have received it 54 times! The message states: “Many of us consider that we, and our families, have been in New Zealand for long enough now that we should be able to claim that as who we are . . . regardless of where our ancestors may have come from many centuries ago or what the colour of our skin or shape of our face might indicate . If you support us in our desire to be recognised as New Zealanders in our own country then there is only one way that this can be achieved: On the 2006 NZ Census form, when you are asked for your ethnicity, choose the option Other and state your ethnicity as New Zealander . If enough people do this then maybe, just maybe, the powers that be will sit up and realise that we are proud of who we are and want to be recognised as such, not divided into sub-categories and all treated as foreigners in our own country”! |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 433561 | 2006-03-04 07:40:00 | Yes Tom, that is the post which is resonating on forums and in public opinion columns throughout the country . Initially attractive but a flawed point . The census question seeks to gain statistical knowledge of ethnic identity, not the flag you were born under or adopted . And points to Mark - the Ainu are a significant ethnic group in Japan . |
Winston001 (3612) | ||
| 433562 | 2006-03-05 00:29:00 | I cannot think of any nation formed in recent centuries which is synonomous with an ethnic group.... Liberia? | Graham L (2) | ||
| 433563 | 2006-03-05 02:27:00 | But then the ex-slave population that made it up was (probably) from originally all over different places in Africa. I've read that the west coat of Ireland, or rather, the people of the west coast are the 'purest' genetic stock. Everybody else has been mixed up through rampaging empires, wars. migrations for what ever reason. |
mark c (247) | ||
| 433564 | 2006-03-05 07:02:00 | Its a dumb argument. They just want to know whos black, whos white, whos brown and whos yellow, | pctek (84) | ||
| 433565 | 2006-03-05 07:08:00 | Surely a feed of week old boil-up, a packet of pocket edition and a couple crates of Lion Brown would knock any diabetes and heart disease on the head. And here was I thinking you lived better than that, Ah well. PJ |
Poppa John (284) | ||
| 433566 | 2006-03-05 07:14:00 | That sort of treatment would cure most illnesses....successful operation, dead patient. :) |
andrew93 (249) | ||
| 433567 | 2006-03-05 07:22:00 | What am I ?? Half Welsh, half Yorkshire, born in Gloucester, England. Arrived in New Zealand at 8:30am, 10th March, 1964. Citizenized 1970. I am a New Zealander & proud of it. I have no problem stating my Ethnicity, I am proud of that as well. So what is the problem? Are you ashamed of what you are? I shall be putting New Zealander of European descent, that is what I am, after all. Poppa John, Kiwi by Choice, not accident of birth. :2cents: | Poppa John (284) | ||
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