I was never really sure if he gave it to me because he knew I enjoyed reading, or if he?

The extract from Salon reminded me that people seem to accept some level of punishment meted out by prisoners onto other prisoners, as though it is somehow a good thing. I can't recall how many times I've?

ahem

Frickin' bizarre.

Surely it is a gross abuse of human rights to be locked up with Paris Hilton...

Prison surely is a waste of time.
Unless someone is an actual danger to society why use it?
There are far more effective measures out there – like serious fines and excessive lengths of PD. These both occupy time and repay debt?

It also brings to mind the Prohibition Era, when the well-minded temperance movement ended up driving an entire industry into the arms of the blackmarket.

I think that it is unclear that there is a uniform phenomenon of "Brown disadvantage" covering Asian, Maori, Pacific peoples, Africans, and so on, that was seeming suggested.

In it's time prison was kinder than death. The prison pop growth was ugly and so sent to America and?

In the terms of Hannah Ho's essay this sort of particular disadvantage is not disaggregated either in terms of effects, nor across " Brown" ethnic groups. Nor is the intervening factor of class taken seriously....

The thing that annoyed me the most with her piece was?

In the terms of Hannah Ho's essay this sort of particular disadvantage is not disaggregated either in terms of effects, nor across " Brown" ethnic groups. Nor is the intervening factor of class taken seriously....

The thing that annoyed me the most with her piece was her attempt to join-up?

The thing that annoyed me the most with her piece was her attempt to join-up Asian disadvantage (eg. petty racism on the street) with that of Maori disadvantage (e.g. employment, health care discrimination issues) as some sort of meta-phenomenon.

It's a little reminiscent of early feminist attempts to link educated?

Isn't one of the most common questions asked by and about New Zealanders still: "What is New Zealand culture exactly?"

Biculturalism was supposed to provide a neat answer to that. It hasn't.

ummm... sorry imogen. biculturalism was never meant to provide a context for new?

I suspect, but cannot be certain, that if you were living in Europe or North America you'd see a lot of Europeans.

well, yeah, but in my experience the persons depicted in australian and nzl ads are very difference.

in oz they're mainly blondes and "southern european' types (dark hair?

it just "doesn't work", if you'll excuse the pun.

someone also pointed out to me that a better stereotype is "all the poor asians are in asia". that one really works.

but all this?

"Did you show that white boy a good time?"

The story of jail violence really gets to the bottom of the problem I have with categorizing culture as simply race based. Hannah Ho's ideas about genealogy; white people are the dominant culture, are annoyingly simplistic.

It's a bit like saying:?

So far as the advertising goes I think it time to do some reaserch. I think we need a professional acting extra, someone who has spent a lot of time being in the background at advertising shoots. Tell?

The friendly hosts will all be kiddies (non threatening) or women (available).

There won't be any real men in them.