A TV in every lounge....
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Not until about 1980and even then TVs cost too much..
I was 11 before I saw part of a Rugby game at an uncles house in CHCH and then 17 before I had access to continual TV
My parents had TV just before I went down there in 1978
Black and white cost $NZ800 and colored cost $NZ1500 at that time..
There was only 4 TV channels TV1=Wellington TV2=Auckland TV3= Christchurch TV4=Dunedin..
Before that the transmisssion didnt reach..
In my town they had TV earlier because they built their own repeater station on a hill so they could receive the image etc from CHCH..
but before that it was easier to get Australia 2000 miles away than CHCH only 200 ..although only flickering shadows with no sound..
The world view came from CNN only for many years..
Maybe you need to go back and read where we were invited guests to hear the PM because we were descendants of the people being honored, and not because we were politically in tune with the NZ govt of that time, 2000.
My appreciation for my ancestors trip to New Zealand far surpassed any modern day socio-political ideology
Since my familiar experience in New Zealand reaches back 160 years, my world view may not be as clouded by Kumbyah of more recent years as yours appears to be...
Whereas your interactions appear to be confined to your water dispenser, I spoke to people in the street, stores, libraries, museums etc..
Maybe the common people on the street outside New World are not as rosy glassed toffee nosed as their “betters” in your intellectual acquantaince...
And yes, we were taught Maori, and poi and stick dances and canoe dances..
Didnt you have the advantage of learning the culture of your own country where you went to school ???
Maybe you need to go back and read where we were invited guests to hear the PM ..
I checked back, but can see nowhere that you were stated to be invited guests.
Since my familiar experience in New Zealand reaches back 160 years, my world view may not be as clouded by Kumbyah of more recent years as yours appears to be...
Without wishing to embarrass you, but as you raise the point, my ancestors arrived in NZ firstly in 1839, before the Treaty of Waitangi was signed and predating your own forebears landings.
Whereas your interactions appear to be confined to your water dispenser, I spoke to people in the street, stores, libraries, museums etc..
Maybe the common people on the street outside New World are not as rosy glassed toffee nosed as their “betters” in your intellectual acquantaince...
Sad you make such assumptions on myself. But I forgive you :)
I wasn't taught at school any of the Maori things you mentioned, and no, I don't feel less educated for it. One or two songs and that was it.
Now, as for your second post above to me, I find what you are trying to say somewhat confusing. You will note if you read back that I didn't call you a leftie, only your family. And that conclusion is clear from your own comments. So I am a little puzzled as to your reaction there and the reference to an old post in which I was referring to Hillary Clinton who indeed made the comment "We’re going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.”
Kid? Thanks Nana :)
Take care.