ElM, you have believed a cartoonish knowledge of history. Let's start with the total number of convicts exported to Australia, not NZ to which no convicts were deported in the 19th century renditions. <
Hordes of bandidos and prostitutes sent by the Brits to Oceania and voila! MQ!
How comes the convicts became you, and you don't think is bad?>
How many convicts do you think were sent?
That's right, you have no idea. You have read that convicts were sent to Australia [and you therefore assume also New Zealand] and mistakenly assume it was most of the people back in the day.
You supposedly pride yourself on being the Wayoman who can detect falsehood at 10,000 km, but you believe the most silly things.
Norfolk Island for example, was populated with criminals and their keepers long ago. Then it was abandoned. Then some of my ancestors moved there to help with the move of Pitcairners to Norfolk Island and to ply the trade in educating Melanesians who were shipped to NZ and then Norfolk Island when they found NZ too cold. Others of my ancestry came directly to NZ from China, France and Great Britain.
Now that I think of it, there has never been a criminal in my family though there is one young relative with schizophrenia who I guess must have some conviction for something though he has never been in prison to my knowledge. I have had a few parking and other traffic tickets such as no warrant of fitness, but those don't count as "criminal".
Perhaps in the 18th century or earlier there was some criminal, but probably not. Certainly nobody going back to the early 19th century.
Our mission is to civilize such barbarians as yourself and family. We will help Experiment become part of the Anglo world which continues the glories. We have trained you to wear pants, and even ties on occasion, use the lingua franca, and install fibre under contract to a Made in China company which is doing a great job for our Anglo companies.
You became part of the Anglosphere in the same way Maoris did. You probably think they were conquered by the equivalent of Amazonian pirates. No, they were bribed like you = "Look, you can stay there in the jungle if you like, bare bum, chanting mystical incantations to your animist deities hoping for foraging for food to eat next spring, or you can put some clothes on, learn how to count up to 10, read at the level of a 10 year old and get a job installing mobile cyberspace which we are going to invent next century".
Given the choice of hunter gatherer subsistence survival with leeches and mosquitoes ding out sumptuously or swanning around the world on a corporate jet with yummy food on tap in fancy restaurants and supermarkets, the natives soon decide that while it's fun to whack their neighbouring tribes about the head and eat them [if not eaten by them], there's more to life than that.
See our cunning technique? Lingua franca, an excellent english expression meaning that you know what another excellent english expression "sushi restaurant" means. We don't conquer, confiscate, rape and eat. Far from it. On the contrary. We let YOU "conquer" us. Yes, you literally can take over and are encouraged to do so, if you have the ability. We don't want to do all the work and run the show. We want to relax and drink Pimms and wear boater hats while watching the polo.
We adopt, not conquer. Japanese call it sushi, the French call it cafe, restaurant, table - by all means, we'll adopt it. Hey presto, it's english. Even when somebody tries to do the same to us, we just beat them at it - karaoke for example is a Japanese word adopted into english but they got it by hijacking oke which is orchestra [their spelling is a bit bung].
We hijack their DNA too. Heck, I have have been hijacked. I'm not pure English. I'm some hybrid barbarian whose ancestors were seduced into the process. Experiment will be fleeing the ancestral delights of Portuguese Amazonian forest dwellers and joining the Anglosphere as quickly as she can, preferably located somewhere else.
The proportion of criminals in NZ and Oz was so low that we didn't even need to lock our doors let alone close our windows until immigrant numbers started booming from other than the Anglosphere in the 1960s. Now we have Triad gangs, Mongrel Mob, Cripps, Crap and Carnange. Police don't even bother with crimes these days unless they are murder or serial murder. They are very keen on revenue gathering activities though so drivers crawl around at a snail's pace, watching the speedo and crashing as a result of trying to stay under, or close to, an acceptable speed.
There is no relationship between what's a safe speed to drive and the speed limits, so watching the speedo at all times is essential to avoid the eagle-eyed revenue gatherers meeting their quotas. There are speed limits of 100 kph where the most talented driver couldn't get around the corners safely at 50 kph, and other places where 200 kph would be a reasonable speed but the limit is still 100.
Noblesse oblige,
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