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| Thread ID: 61950 | 2005-09-22 01:47:00 | More Maori controversy | Peterj116 (6762) | PC World Chat |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 390151 | 2005-09-22 10:20:00 | OK guys, cool it down. There is no need to get heated up over this and take to personal insults. Time to move on. | Jen (38) | ||
| 390152 | 2005-09-22 10:37:00 | OK that's fine jen. I didn't start it. Those ***** did anyway. OK I won't go on about it. Noit like those ....................................OK fine stop now. | mark c (247) | ||
| 390153 | 2005-09-22 10:40:00 | Gotta love racism, Markc is a prime example of it. | Metla (12) | ||
| 390154 | 2005-09-22 10:48:00 | You'll have to expand that observation before I can comment on it. mark-space-c. Can't see what's so racist about saying for godsake we have to learn to get on with one another and not fall victim to simplistic and self serving generalisations. :D 2 u 2 |
mark c (247) | ||
| 390155 | 2005-09-22 10:52:00 | These guys are just bunch of cross-breeds in the business of extortion. However, it appears that the crossbreeds with Maori lineage seem to think they are entitled to special treatment from those without. I would respectfully suggest it is they who are racist. I'm sure if a Maori said you were a crossbreed, you would get up and deck him correct? Yet it seems ok for you to sling it left right and centre. Your comment 'I would respectfully' could be seen (I believe) as hypocrisy. But then ..... why do I bother wasting my breathe on a set-in-his-ways person such as yourself. You will never open your eyes, you will never see Maori as equals, and you will always think of Maori as a seconds race, full of thieves, and extortionists. |
Myth (110) | ||
| 390156 | 2005-09-22 10:56:00 | I don't think this discussion is going anywhere but downhill and it is only bringing out ill feeling. Anymore and I will close this thread. |
Jen (38) | ||
| 390157 | 2005-09-22 10:57:00 | Unrelated to any specific posts... Some people believe that if one isn't pro Maori then they are racist, If I said I don't consider the Maori culture or language worth saving that wouldn't make me a racist, if I said Maori didn't have the right to celebrate their culture (or speak their language) that would be racist. All this touchy feely crap presumibly brought on by suffereing a couple of generations ago, Im sure all of us have people in our linage who suffered massivly, I would disgusted if my family wanted to fall over and cry out in pain over what happened many years back. As for considering maori as less, I have met many who I hold in deep respect, But then I don't jude people on their skin colour. |
Metla (12) | ||
| 390158 | 2005-09-22 11:03:00 | I have met many who I hold in deep respect, But then I don't jude people on their skin colour. Right. Let's leave it there. And get on with geting on and getting a life together. ..............................m |
mark c (247) | ||
| 390159 | 2005-09-22 12:07:00 | Just to keep this thing back on track.... I don't have a problem with anyone wanting to speak either of NZs official languages in court, or needing an interpreter to do so. But what right does anyone have to insist that an interpreter is fluent in a specific dialect? My wife comes from Yorkshire, with an entirely different dialect to most other poms. By 'eck, if she went to court she would be laughed out the doors if she requested an interpreter fluent in Yorkshie! That to me is the only issue here. |
Standing_Amazed (7841) | ||
| 390160 | 2005-09-22 12:31:00 | Not really the point. NZ/Aoteraroa was settled first around 1200 and then later in the 1700-1800s so we we do have a dual culture here and I think no point in saying we should behave or react like the rest of the world. We are yet another example of the many unique examples of european expansionism in the 19c. cf: Jamaica: The Philiipines: China : Argentina: South Africa. |
mark c (247) | ||
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