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The Northern Advocate 17/10/16
NZ HISTORY
Congratulations to columnist Rosemary McLeod ( Advocate October 10) — the perfect PC product of three decades of social engineering.
During that time history has been rewritten, seminal documents distorted and NZ’s earliest inhabitants erased from our nation’s history.
Democracy has been aired as a dirty word, and those who favour equal rights for all citizens presented as racists.
The Treaty of Waitangi has been “updated” from being a document of unity into one of divisiveness.
Ms McLeod would have it that Hobson's "We are now one people" really meant we are now two peoples with separate laws. However, her viewpoints are understandable in the light of what she has been taught and accepted unquestioningly as truth, but unfortunately the cancer of political correctness has pervaded our mass media and educational system.
Today's part-Maoris have no more prerogative to assert what ancient Maori understood the Treaty to mean than anybody else who can access ancient records such as the Maori/ English dictionary Grammar and Vocabulary of the Language of New Zealand, jointly compiled by Ngapuhi chieftain Hongi Hika and Professor Samuel Lee at Cambridge University in 1820, and William William's Dictionary of the New Zealand Language compiled in 1844. These contain Maori/English definitions as understood by both parties who signed the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840 and present a very different Treaty translation from today's politically correct distortion.
The Treaty meant what it said — two races united as one under a common law. Hence the end of tribal wars, cannibalism and slavery, and equal rights for all (yes, the Treaty states all NZers, not just Maoris.)
Other opinions aired by Ms McLeod also echo disinformation propounded by those with a corrupt PC agenda. Perhaps she should probe deeper into so-called man-made climate change and study the Maunder Minimum period of sunspot activity, and look again with untarnished eyes at the principles espoused by Don Brash.
Unfortunately education today stifles analytical thinking.
MITCH MORGAN
Kaipara
The New Zealand Herald 17/10/16
BICULTURAL RACISM
It is interesting that, in an article addressing the racialism to be found in New Zealand, Phil Taylor includes the words “bicultural” and “biculturalism”.
Mr Taylor may not know that the prefix “bi” means “two” but the academics and the optician he quotes probably do.
The bicultural purview is that New Zealand is or should be, a society of two cultures only, Maori and pakeha. That is to say, the cultures of the Asian and Middle-Eastern people among us have no place.
In my experience the “bloody foreigners” (to quote one of Mr Taylor’s sources) among us, my Chinese wife included, will never abandon their culture for Maori or western culture.
One day perhaps, or perhaps not, New Zealand’s academics and journalists will recognise and acknowledge the fact that New Zealand is a multicultural society.
I must go, there are fleets of pigs flying past my window.
M E
Auckland central.
NZ HISTORY
Congratulations to columnist Rosemary McLeod ( Advocate October 10) — the perfect PC product of three decades of social engineering.
During that time history has been rewritten, seminal documents distorted and NZ’s earliest inhabitants erased from our nation’s history.
Democracy has been aired as a dirty word, and those who favour equal rights for all citizens presented as racists.
The Treaty of Waitangi has been “updated” from being a document of unity into one of divisiveness.
Ms McLeod would have it that Hobson's "We are now one people" really meant we are now two peoples with separate laws. However, her viewpoints are understandable in the light of what she has been taught and accepted unquestioningly as truth, but unfortunately the cancer of political correctness has pervaded our mass media and educational system.
Today's part-Maoris have no more prerogative to assert what ancient Maori understood the Treaty to mean than anybody else who can access ancient records such as the Maori/ English dictionary Grammar and Vocabulary of the Language of New Zealand, jointly compiled by Ngapuhi chieftain Hongi Hika and Professor Samuel Lee at Cambridge University in 1820, and William William's Dictionary of the New Zealand Language compiled in 1844. These contain Maori/English definitions as understood by both parties who signed the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840 and present a very different Treaty translation from today's politically correct distortion.
The Treaty meant what it said — two races united as one under a common law. Hence the end of tribal wars, cannibalism and slavery, and equal rights for all (yes, the Treaty states all NZers, not just Maoris.)
Other opinions aired by Ms McLeod also echo disinformation propounded by those with a corrupt PC agenda. Perhaps she should probe deeper into so-called man-made climate change and study the Maunder Minimum period of sunspot activity, and look again with untarnished eyes at the principles espoused by Don Brash.
Unfortunately education today stifles analytical thinking.
MITCH MORGAN
Kaipara
The New Zealand Herald 17/10/16
BICULTURAL RACISM
It is interesting that, in an article addressing the racialism to be found in New Zealand, Phil Taylor includes the words “bicultural” and “biculturalism”.
Mr Taylor may not know that the prefix “bi” means “two” but the academics and the optician he quotes probably do.
The bicultural purview is that New Zealand is or should be, a society of two cultures only, Maori and pakeha. That is to say, the cultures of the Asian and Middle-Eastern people among us have no place.
In my experience the “bloody foreigners” (to quote one of Mr Taylor’s sources) among us, my Chinese wife included, will never abandon their culture for Maori or western culture.
One day perhaps, or perhaps not, New Zealand’s academics and journalists will recognise and acknowledge the fact that New Zealand is a multicultural society.
I must go, there are fleets of pigs flying past my window.
M E
Auckland central.