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To: Joe S Pack who wrote (57935)11/15/2009 10:59:32 PM
From: Maurice Winn1 Recommendation  Read Replies (1) of 219974
 
John Howard was right. It's the 21st century. <Australian Prime Minister John Howard initially resisted calls to apologize to institutionalized children and Australian Aborigines, arguing that contemporary Australians should not take responsibility for mistakes made by past generations. > Me apologizing for something people did 100 years ago is absurd. So is me paying the descendants for suffering of people 100 years ago. So is me being paid by recent Chinese immigrants for the suffering [real enough] of my ancestors who were shipped to NZ as orphaned children in the 19th century.

I'm quite grateful that my grandmother along with her two orphans siblings were shipped out to NZ to a life of poverty, but the opportunity to do well which many in NZ took. Poverty was the norm in the UK too. It's a bit like Americans with slave ancestors should be grateful that their ancestors were enslaved and sold to Americans. Bad luck for those slaves [though probably better than the alternative actually] but good luck for their descendants. It's absurd that descendants of American slaves want money from people who have recently emigrated from China to USA. Not just descendants of slaves of course, but anyone with a good helping of melanin.

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