Comments on: ★ Plugging the “drain”

By: 1hurries

1hurries — Wed, 12 Jan 2022 23:46:22 +0000

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By: Steven

Steven — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 22:44:55 +0000

Nice piece from Tapu Misa in the Herald this weekend on why the reality is so different. It’s actually useless white people who are a bigger drag on the population. Honestly that shouldn’t be a surprise most of our MPs are white, and they are all useless.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10513811

By: DeepRed

DeepRed — Tue, 27 May 2008 02:00:54 +0000

I don’t reject the report out of hand, but it’s long on statistics and short on solutions. Judging from the author’s other publications, he seems to be taking a leaf out of Samuel Huntington’s book.

By: Frank

Frank — Thu, 22 May 2008 23:35:26 +0000

My problem with the report is that with all things that identify a group as more likely to have negative traits, is that it is easy to apportion blame for the traits on the group.
Not, for example, to the lack of support these migrants had compared to what (the report now indicates) they needed.
At the end of the day, identifying a problem is easy, coming up with a solution…

By: Simon Young

Simon Young — Thu, 22 May 2008 11:08:40 +0000

Woah! That’s a pretty fast flip-flop!

I think you’re onto something with helping out Pacific nations with the idea of public education, if not the exact systems we have here (we did enough of that when most of the Islands were basically NZ colonies 1914-about 1960s).

I think NZ, particularly with its recent Treaty of Waitangi experience, is more likely to respect the sovereignty and culture of Pacific Nations. Particularly when compared with, say, China. (Sovereignty? What?)