New Zealand - The right to leave our country

[Badjelly]

I think it would be wrong to disrespect someone's beliefs

I think that very much depends on the beliefs.

[Marmoot]

This idea of New Zealand being a multicultural community has
served only to dilute our sovereignty and our national identity.
As New Zealanders, we have our own culture, our own society, our
own language and our own lifestyle. Our culture has been developed
over two centuries of struggles, trials and victories by millions
of men and women who have sought freedom, even died for it.

Biggest bullshit I've ever read.
Your so-called "own culture" is British colonisation. The real New Zealand culture was stamped down the moment you immigrants from Britain set foot on this land. Those who sought freedom were killed and stamped as Maori cannibals.

I'd rather have 1000 burqa-wearing arabic-speaking immigrants that works their asses off and pays their taxes, than 10 "new zealanders" that bludge the dole or ones that skip the tasman ditch to Australia for better money.

You can't eat 'national pride', but you CAN eat chinese food.

Your Nationality concept is skewed and bigotted.
...And worse if it is really a copy-and-paste job from some Americans.

[Marmoot]

I know how you feel. I'm a working, middle-class, white, heterosexual; which makes me a member of a persecuted minority group.

Beat this...

Working, middle-class, chinese, under-25, bike-rider, honda car boy-racer, heterosexual, recent graduate.

Beats your score by 5

Immigrants may have the upper hands at times, but not chinese.
There, I SAID THE C WORD!

The government targeting order is as follows:
- Immigrants - Chinese (arriving after 1890 AD)
- John Key
- Immigrants - Asian origin (arriving after 1990)
- Immigration Officers and Corrections Department Staff Members
- Immigrants - Pacific Islands (post 2005 and overstayers, diabetics excluded)
- Immigrants - Misc. other than UK and Germany
- Native New Zealand (i.e., Pakeha)
- The Holy Maori Tribes (Caution: may trigger possibility of referendums and change of government)

[peasea]

Beat this...

Working, middle-class, chinese, under-25, bike-rider, honda car boy-racer, heterosexual, recent graduate.

Beats your score by 5

Immigrants may have the upper hands at times, but not chinese.
There, I SAID THE C WORD!

The government targeting order is as follows:
- Immigrants - Chinese (arriving after 1890 AD)
- John Key
- Immigrants - Asian origin (arriving after 1990)
- Immigration Officers and Corrections Department Staff Members
- Immigrants - Pacific Islands (post 2005 and overstayers, diabetics excluded)
- Immigrants - Misc. other than UK and Germany
- Native New Zealand (i.e., Pakeha)
- The Holy Maori Tribes (Caution: may trigger possibility of referendums and change of government)

I wasn't aware it was a competition but ok, you win.

The "government targeting order" ? Are you for real?

[boomer]

Beat this...

Working, middle-class, chinese, under-25, bike-rider, honda car boy-racer, heterosexual, recent graduate.

Beats your score by 5

Immigrants may have the upper hands at times, but not chinese.
There, I SAID THE C WORD!

The government targeting order is as follows:
- Immigrants - Chinese (arriving after 1890 AD)
- John Key
- Immigrants - Asian origin (arriving after 1990)
- Immigration Officers and Corrections Department Staff Members
- Immigrants - Pacific Islands (post 2005 and overstayers, diabetics excluded)
- Immigrants - Misc. other than UK and Germany
- Native New Zealand (i.e., Pakeha)
- The Holy Maori Tribes (Caution: may trigger possibility of referendums and change of government)

typo.. ur a homosexual Marmoot ahahhaa

This shit is rascist and biggoted crap.. My country indeed. The world is for everyone, the sooner you open your eyes and realise that the sooner you loose the 'red neck' tag!

dick heads!

[Marmoot]

typo.. ur a homosexual Marmoot ahahhaa

Only for you...

[Hitcher]

Beat this...

Is this some sort of creative fiction competition?

Nice troll.

[mstriumph]

I wasn't lumping them together I use maori because it is the one i know most about and I said african american to reflect back to the post i mentioned.
How is it culturally offensive anyway?.....

because it implies that their 'disadvantage' is the most important and significant thing about either 'race' - and that's insulting to both

......... I'm all for giving every disadvantaged person a chance (not just maori/PI) but stats show that they are by far the most disavantaged races.

me too - i'm just a little too realistic to expect that legislating significant advantages for certain sectors of the community won't end up pissing the remainder of that community off to the extent it compounds the problem instead of eliminating it

good intentions, unfortunately, invariably end up making things worse

[mstriumph]

.......Offensive to which party?

both of them - and to me

[peasea]

.....and the last thing you want to do is FEED it.

[mstriumph]

All issues are only as big as you make them...it is a minute section of the community at that.

...........................
Is it really making a new set of rules
..................

ANY exception creates a precedent

i don't CARE that it's just an licence and that's what she normally wears when she's driving

ON THAT BASIS I DEMAND TO HAVE MY LICENCE PHOTO TAKEN IN MY FULL-FACE HELMET

[scumdog]

I'd rather have 1000 burqa-wearing arabic-speaking immigrants that works their asses off and pays their taxes, than 10 "new zealanders" that bludge the dole or ones that skip the tasman ditch to Australia for better money.

Don't worry, given time the arabic-speaking ones will become New Zealanders - and then will discover 'bludging' in all its manifestations...and if they don't they'll now be able to get into Aussie for the 'better money'.

[jrandom]

I think it would be wrong to disrepect someone's beliefs...

Well, all things in moderation, including tolerance.

For example, were I to believe that the earth was flat, the moon was made of green cheese, and that both of them were sneezed from the nostril of the Great Green Arkleseizure, you would be correct to privately hold the opinion that I was an idiot.

Were I, however, to believe that the Great Green Arkleseizure had commanded me to redline my bike outside your bedroom window at 3am every morning, you would be correct to run outside and punch me in the nose.

[Grahameeboy]

I think that very much depends on the beliefs.

Why, you respect whether or not you agree with their beliefs

[Grahameeboy]

ANY exception creates a precedent

i don't CARE that it's just an licence and that's what she normally wears when she's driving

ON THAT BASIS I DEMAND TO HAVE MY LICENCE PHOTO TAKEN IN MY FULL-FACE HELMET

Guess we just see things different...