Posts by kmont
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Camus was kind of ambivalent about Arabs and his upbringing in Algeria colours all his works. Being a pied-noir was explored in his unfinished novel, 'The First Man'. I went through a huge Camus phase but for the longest time I didn't notice the significance of the lyrics of that Cure song.
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Yeah I noticed that about the police website, I was on there looking for a police code of conduct and I noticed that it had some impressive multilingual functions.
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Thank you Charles, one day soon I will have less time to obsessively check public address and publish stuff full of spelling mistakes ; )
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He used to have a handlebar mustache until "the young folks started to do it in an ironic way". There was a ponytail involved.
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Well my dad decided it would be good to dye his hair and his GOATEE black for my uni graduation. Granted my best friend I were doing it......but FFS.
George Clooney men, George Clooney. By the same token Kim Hill doesn't look half bad with her crop of grey. -
Would love to know what was going on over at SkyKiwi...........
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"The firm was founded as an intelligent, volatile fusion of philosophy, commerce and ethically opportunistic management."
WTF!
I am also loving Ron, the Managing Director in thinking chin in hand pose. Sidebar - I am so glad NZ men don't get into dying their hair to cover grey.
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That's a shame that she felt that way, I wonder why? But I can see why that would have stuck you as a bit much.
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I don't think that people are saying that Asians are the only ones that racism happens to. We should be concerned with what happens in NZ because we live here, the fact that racism is a varient of dumbarse is of course true but I don't know how much light that sheds on anything.
We all bring our experiences to the discussion. I too have my own Thai marketplace stories.....
I have been called a stupid foreigner a few times too. (But mostly when I deserved it or as a joke between friends) -
walking around like I had a big neon dollar sign attached to my head
I wonder if Asian students don't sometimes feel like that in NZ. By that I mean that we just want their money (or their parents money) and don't care much about their welfare. OTOH what this survey shows I am not sure.
I have heard a lot of bad stories about shoddy practices in the ESOL industry. Of course what I have heard doesn't prove anything ; )
Moreover, the way I've heard it, white foreigners don't get anywhere near the worst of it; that's reserved for blacks, and populations from contentious areas like the Uyghur and Taiwanese.
That is why I am not really that keen to extrapolate too much from my experiences in Asia. It can sound a bit like "me too, me too" and I doubt that my experiences are really comparable to say a Nigerian man in living in Tokyo for 10 years who is told that he is too black at a job interview.
I do see the points that you are trying to make Ben and Jeremy but it just wouldnt be my emphasis.