Mr de Bres' report lists a continuing series of racial incidents such as eggs and stones being thrown at a Korean couple in Hamilton last May and Somali-born Hamilton athlete Shafat Salad, 20, saying he had suffered frequent racial abuse.In Auckland, an Indian-born worker for the migrant women's group Shakti, Philomena Nazareth, was beaten in her car by two women driving behind her last August after she gave way to a car coming from a side road. The women got out when she stopped at a traffic light and punched her through her car window."I was easy prey ... if I was a Maori or Pakeha I don't think I would have been attacked," she said.A reporter at Auckland's Chinese-language World TV, Ling Ling Liang, said she had also been given the fingers and told to "go back to your country" two or three times while driving, and received complaints from Chinese viewers about similar incidents every week."We tell them to lay a complaint but they don't because of the language barrier."Mr de Bres said most complaints to his office were about discrimination at work - not employing people of minority races, not promoting them, and harassment from other workers.Several complaints were about employers requiring staff to speak only English at work.A fast-food chain that sacked a Chinese woman for instructing other Chinese staff in Mandarin within earshot of customers is now working with Mr de Bres' office to develop new guidelines.A blanket ban on speaking languages other than English was probably a breach of human rights, said Mr de Bres. "But if there are good reasons for a requirement to speak English ... then that's fine - for example to do with health and safety."
The best thing about Finance Minister Bill English\'s latest Budget is that it does finally signal a much greater role for the private sector in the New Zealand economy. And another step along the way to extract this country from the political cul-de-sac in which Helen Clark\'s Labour Government parked us.
Don't worry.Zarkov is given way to much power and kills threads willy nilly. If he doesnt like them, then they are deem'd unworthy, despite what the majority of the community thinks.Although there were a few people complaining.without jumping on sides, i agree. i saw no point of racism in your post, and saw no anger pointed towards the guys ethnicity. was a little bit disheartened to see the amount of people getting all worked up. Especially fragin. he is usually pretty level headed.
The trouble with threads like that is that there are a few people on this forum who will always bring an agenda to any topic.It makes it easy for them to post their sly innuendo if the subject is or can be construed as race.If it was up to me I'd IP ban the guys who have race as their chip on the shoulder.
The trouble with threads like that is that there are a few people on this forum who will always bring an agenda to any topic.It makes it easy for them to post their sly innuendo if the subject is or can be construed as race.
No the problem is you can't say anything about a race without being called racist. No matter what your intension is.
Well said.Off Topic has just become a market place for the narrow minded to hawk their wares.
As for my point of view about the 'Maori Sickness':There is a word called "Amok", look it up sometimes. You might be surprised about its history
Just read up on it at Wiki and your comment makes no sense. Care to explain what you mean?
The contrast between what was seen as the normal placid character of Malays and a sudden outburst of frenzied violence played to Western perceptions of the 'irrational' East.
i feel sorry for supa_maori because he sounds like a good bastard, however he gets to hear all this shit. i mean if we only judged him by how he works/lives, and from what i can tell about him, he IS a tax payer, he contributes to society, and he doesnt rob old ladies.
