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To: TobagoJack who wrote (23956)	10/11/2007 11:50:10 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) of 217619

TJ, yes, they were invited and allowed to settle. You need to read some history before you make your usual racist and rabid assumptions. Not all people are barbarians. In some locales, Maoris decided the Europeans were most useful as food. Captain Cook was consumed in Hawaii. Others were eaten in NZ. In other places, the locals invited them to set up shop and trade. Guess what the locals wanted to buy in exchange for land. Hint - the locals were able to go shopping for more land in other places with what they bought from the British settlers. Life was not totally sweetness and light in the 19th century. Conflicts with Maoris were only here and there, mostly based on tribal conflicts = each tribe was their own nation/country. It's not as though NZ was one country. The British had to trade and that was their preference. They didn't have the numbers to do anything else, even if they did want to. These days, you would be hard-pressed to find Maoris who are not mixed up with everyone else, though many retain a form of their earlier culture. Mostly it's "born again" Maoridom because stone age tribal cultures with minuscule languages are simply unsuitable and unsuccessful in the modern world. My cousin's children can't "uninvite themselves" and nor can their offspring. Perhaps you don't understand what happens when people live peacefully together for centuries. Think boy meets girl. I dare say you are right that Tibetans traded with Chinese for centuries. I don't think that makes Tibet the property of China. Taiwan was once part of Japan, and was once part of China. It's different now. Now Taiwanese are defending themselves against China. Mqurice

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