Pakeha

[Skyryder]

Fantastic. Don't you just love people who take offense so easily.

So if someone came up and told you in front of your mates that you 'smelled like a pig' that would not cause offence? Try calling a Maori a pakeha and watch the response.

Skyryder

[avgas]

Fantastic. Don't you just love people who take offense so easily.

I took afence once - did horrible things to the bike.
Pakeha is racist just purely in the concept that it is a name in a different language.
But then again what do the boonga's, gollywogs know

[Tank]

So if someone came up and told you in front of your mates that you 'smelled like a pig' that would not cause offence? Try calling a Maori a pakeha and watch the response.

Skyryder

Thats what got Tami Iti started.

Despite the original meaning of the term pakeha which I believe was meant quite literally (people REALLY stank after months on a boat), its common usage is now something quite different and is not meant in a insulting manner.

However, I dont use the term pakeha, personally I refer to myself as a Kiwi.

[BMW]

I'm also uncomfortable with its' use, particularly on official documents. I always cross it out and write "New Zealander".

I am a new zealander to. I hate it being called that!

[mdooher]

Originally the word nigger wasn't offensive either...Now it is
If the term pakeha wasn't offensive originally it is certainly getting that way.

What am I on about.... the origins of a word have nothing to do with how offensive it is now. I am not offended by the terms "Fag" or "Nigger" or "Spic" but some people are so I would never use them in public. "Pakeha" is offensive to significant numbers of people so in my opinion it should not be used in public.

[Flatcap]

I prefer to be called a Honkie, mainly because it is aspirational

[carver]

My sister and I have been having a lot of discussions on this topic lately. She has just started her teaching degree and is doing a paper called 'diversity'. I have encountered this horrible word throughout my three years doing my degree.
Does anyone else find the term 'pakeha' offensive?
It annoys me deeply that all the literature I read refers to me as 'pakeha' and that I have to sit through lectures and be called 'pakeha'. Yes I really should make a stand to my classes, but if you saw the ethnicity spread, and then saw me you would understand! (The other day I was called 'petite')

The fact is, pakeha was first used to call the Europeans 'white pig' or some other variant. Yet if I went around calling them horries or niggers people would do a little more than raise their eyebrows.

Please don't tell me I am the only one! This is one of the few times my sexy red hair gets the better of me!

fuck yeah...
NZ'rs is what we are....were all one, all immigrants from somewhere
i dont mind my brown skinned brothers calling me it too much, as i call them niggers, maori's, blah blah, so long as they are cool with it.
what pisses me off is some PC feminist preaching to me about what i am and how i should act.
i can think for myself thanks

[Curious_AJ]

Originally the word nigger wasn't offensive either...Now it is
If the term pakeha wasn't offensive originally it is certainly getting that way.

What am I on about.... the origins of a word have nothing to do with how offensive it is now. I am not offended by the terms "Fag" or "Nigger" or "Spic" but some people are so I would never use them in public. "Pakeha" is offensive to significant numbers of people so in my opinion it should not be used in public.

hear, hear 10 fold!

fuck yeah...
NZ'rs is what we are....were all one, all immigrants from somewhere
i dont mind my brown skinned brothers calling me it too much, as i call them niggers, maori's, blah blah, so long as they are cool with it.
what pisses me off is some PC feminist preaching to me about what i am and how i should act.
i can think for myself thanks

yeah, people telling you who you are is just not on.

[Clockwork]

Hmmm.... now you guys mention it; I never was that pleased with being called a pom!