Suicide in NZ is very popular. Not to mention things which don't count as suicide but are at best wanton carelessness [roaring around the highways drunk in charge]. Murder is also very popular. Not to mention things which don't count as murder but are at best wanton indifference to survival of others [manslaughter with baseball bats, other weapons, "professional" indifference to criminally negligent levels, and roaring around the highways drunk in charge].
There has been decades of production line design with beneficiaries breeding like bunnies, filling prisons and hospitals.
Quarter of the population has left New Zealand already. Those are the productive ones. Dole bludgers and government spivs can't leave so easily because nowhere else wants them. Old people are all here. Sick and maimed too. Prisoners of course. And ex-cons. Plus the low-value who can't get into other countries.
I'm surprised NZ's economy continues to do as well as it has.
But the bad trends continue to gain ground. Now the government is going to cancel Guy Fawkes night so we can't even celebrate blowing up parliament [I suppose they don't want people getting certain ideas]. Of course parliament is just a symptom of the sociopathic ideology of the average Kiwi, who is in favour of Big Brother, Big Sister, and serfdom.
It's not surprising the suicide levels are so high here. The voting for more government support for the indigent ironically is most harmful to the poor, who are bewildered as to why life doesn't get better though they go on voting for more free things. It does get better because of global technological gains such as MRIs, CDMA, car designs, genetic engineering, etc, etc and the amazing Biotelecosmictechdot.com revolution.
But compared to the gains of Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, South Korea, China, Japan, USA, Spain, Portugal, Greece and elsewhere, NZ is going backwards.
I'm ready to vacate NZ, but hope it's unnecessary. The climate is the worst part - June, July, August in France, San Diego, Honolulu etc is a LOT better than here.
<proportionally speaking, han chinese did less harm in china tibet than euros did to nz>
Maoris are now suit-wearing globe-trotters. They were kumara-pit warring cannibals. I would be interested to know what Tibetans think of China's invasion.
Perhaps you imagine NZ was taken over by genocidal war by the British [it wasn't "euros" who took over here]. Not so. Total combat deaths of Maoris at the hands of euros during the wars in the late 19th century was a small proportion of the population. Keep in mind that a lot Maori deaths were due to other Maoris attacking each other, sometimes with support from the British, sometimes just on their own account.
I'll ask Google how many. I guess, um, let's see. I'd say about 1,000 total. BRB.
I bet Tibetans aren't appointed Governor General, or Finance Minister, or much else, in China. They are still being kidnapped and killed by Chinese soldiers. The Dalai Llama has to hide outside China or be gaoled [if he's lucky and not killed].
You obviously don't know that Maoris agreed to the Treaty of Waitangi and it was a meeting of equals, not conqueror and conquered. They had travelled to Britain, checked it all out, had the numbers and were not a beaten people in the slightest.
But, just as NZers now have been bribed to allow swarms of Chinese in, and have now lost control of the place to them and other recent immigrants, Maoris were tempted by the cash flow and military support from foreigners. The character of the place has changed a lot with the waves of immigration.
Maoris were swamped, then the British. It's now a highly cosmopolitan place in the big smoke. Unfortunately, bludging, murder, theft, burglary, and other cultural nastiness has become endemic.
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