Posts by Che Tibby
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I just can't stand being lectured to by that red-cheeked pompous smirker Lord Downer of Baghdad (the man who once saw fit to lecture Nelson Mandela on human rights issues and saw nary a glimpse of irony in his actions)
he was also the negotiator who bullied east timor into limiting its sovereign boundary, and thereby grant Australia the lions share of the oil in the timor straits.
the man is a scumbag.
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Word on Facebook is that Martyn Bradbury, aka Bomber, is running for the Auckland mayoralty...
i saw a chap walking along courtney place the other day wearing a bowler hat, and i thought to myself, "bomber was 10 years ahead of this time."
and reading span's comment, i found myself having a deja vue.
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PS. feeding them crack might help get thru that volume of comments.
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dpf,
if you do appoint a moderator, please ensure you pay them the correct minimum wage, and look after things like their health, safety, and especially stress levels.
we know what you thatcherite tories are like.
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But I'm holding out for the possibility [the treasurers] like pendants too ...
if they do. i'm selling a bunch at craft 2.0 tomorrow.
</disgraceful self promotion>
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I am sure that if one language student is abused on the way home, all their friends hear about it
let alone some thugs forcing into their flat and assaulting them.
"welcome to new zealand"... not.
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but i can't think of a descriptor for them that captures that place in between two cultures where children of migrants end up.
you know, i really don't think there is one? which is strange considering that it is so common to so many societies world-wide.
maybe all those 2Gen people out there need to name themselves.
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they didn't feel they had much choice.
yeah, i think host communities cop a lot of criticism unnecessarily.
even if a group was forced to emigrate to new zealand (somali refugees for example), it's a big ask for the host community to do more than willingly accept them, and willingly accept their differences.
why should a host community be required to change? as long as it makes people welcome, then the migrant group has little to complain about. they're able to continue to practice their own cultures (taking into account that their practices might change under the influence of the host), maintain community, and also participate in the host society.
seems like a good deal. as little utopian, but a good deal none the less.
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echoing jackie, bravo anjum. the thing about moving to a host society is that you'd have to expect your cultural outlook to change.
if someone wanted their cultural heritage to remain entirely intact intergenerationally, wouldn't it be easier in their country of origin?
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Blogger doesn't offer that option, and even if it did, I'm not sure that I would want to use it.
you might want to consider moving your content over to a platform that does.
wordpress lets you vet a commenter the first time, then they're on their own.
but, you can always mark their url "spam" if they flip.