Even in beautiful NZ
the first joke my daughter's host father told her was:
Why do Maoris have big nostrils?
Big fingers.
(TDub Nunc id vides, nunc ne vides on, Mon 31 Oct 2011, 5:43, 4 replies)

now that is one racist country. 100% pure NZ. hmmm.
( enoughblueskyforsailorstrousers, Mon 31 Oct 2011, 8:37, closed)

When I was over there
I worked with someone who would say 'Murrays' instead of 'Maoris' whenever he partook in his casual racism, so that if anyone pulled him up on it, he could lie and say he was talking about his neighbours. Apparently he lived nextdoor to a family who were an angry lot that used to eat white men for dinner.
(FartThroughAWalkieTalkie wished you were dead in ditch on, Mon 31 Oct 2011, 10:22, closed)

NZ
is held up as the model PC country to Americans, all beautiful and flowery and non-killing of their aboriginies, Waitanga Treaty and all that. Iamgine my surprise when people would say THE most racist crap! I was floored.
My daughter got punched when she told a Maori kid who was bragging about being so black and tough, "Look, I'm from Detroit. Believe me, you are NOT black."
(TDub Nunc id vides, nunc ne vides on, Mon 31 Oct 2011, 21:48, closed)

They embrace the maori culture for PC reasons and also for branding, but there is deep seated multi-directional inter-generational racism there.
( enoughblueskyforsailorstrousers, Tue 1 Nov 2011, 22:30, closed)