Hi Craig, didn't notice your response before responding to gav directly. I don't think gav was being ironic in that point.
You make one point I make. >From experience, Anglo / Maori situation in NZ seems quite different to Anglo / Aboriginal sitiation in Oz. Ian On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 11:42 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > [gav] >> i live in probably the most multicultural country on earth - australia. > > I'm not sure if you are being ironic, but I'll give my humble tourist opinion > (25 countries, 5 continents, 3 quadraspheres). > > [gav] >> we have never had a civil war > > New Zealand had a civil war--a clash between the Maori and Anglos. Today in > the North Island there is evidence of much inter-influence between those 2 > cultures (similar for Hawaiian/Anglo). > Australia did not have a civil war, but that is because of the dominance of > the > Anglo culture over the aborigine, not because of multi-culturalism. There is > much less evidence of aborgine influence. > Australia is increasingly open to immigrant cultural influence & respectful of > the aborginal culture, but this is a recent developement. > See > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Australia_policy > IMHTO > Craig > > > > Moq_Discuss mailing list > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > Archives: > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/ > Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
