well he is setting himself for disaster really ... there seems to be more expatriate New Zealanders than those
that live on the little islands and some of the them are great big rugger players that could well clobber him I don't think Aussies and Kiwis hate each other ... there is a lot of back and forth lots of shopping in Australia by New Zealanders and trips to the tropics lots of skiing and culture getting in New Zealand by Australians [the Aussie Dollar is much better than the New Zealand one ... on the international sporting field there is a huge rivalry of course and there is a New Zealand team in the major Australian league called the Warriors it used to be that in New Zealand there was a knee jerk inferiority complex regards Australia .. but times have changed ... they are definitely different places New Zealand was settled mainly by soldiers from Britain for were sent out to fight the Maori Wars and farmers timber getters and fishermen mostly from the north of England Scotland and Wales Australia by convicts and the soldier jail keepers and later farmers and businessmen but from the upper echelons of England often the 'black sheep' of the family was sent out to get rid of some kind of scandal both had a Gold rush in the 19th Century but Australia's was huge New Zealand is more Pacific Island focused Australia is more Asian Australia locks up refugees in detention centres surrounded by barbed wire in the desert and lets them drown by the hundreds and talks of a "Pacific Solution" which means http://www.sievx.com/ http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/1719808.stm http://perth.indymedia.org/index.php?action=newswire&parentview=39449 *http://tinyurl.com/29wwwwu* New Zealand makes citizens of them New Zealand is officially bilingual Australia has separate language groups Both have 'race' issues ... but Maori's have a treaty [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Waitangi ] a place in government via proportional voting and health care Australian Aboringionals have the 'intervention' *http://tinyurl.com/234pv8x* * * not mentioned in the above article is that whole communities had their [social security ] income quarantined and many self help programmes were disbanded regardless of their success to stop self determination etc in remote communities Australia is xenophobic and there is a culture of racism that is quite horrific i am try to think of places in the States that are like Aus and NZ New Zealand is like San Francisco and the arty part of Arizona [not the desert thing of course] Australia is like Texas and suburban Detroit mx On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 4:40 AM, richardsan <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 11:49 AM, M Christol <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Do Australians & New Zealenders hate each other? >> Some buy in Kentucky said they do so he taunts them by saying Australia & >> New Zealand are the same country. >> He thinks it is hilarious. >> I think it makes him (& me by association) look dumber'n shit. >> > > you are > getting > sleepy > verrrry sleepy > a deep restful sleep... > >> >> > > -- > "doubts are the only certainties i have left." > m. feldman > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "StrataList-OT" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<stratalist-ot%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/stratalist-ot?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "StrataList-OT" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/stratalist-ot?hl=en.
