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To: Clarksterh who wrote (5536)	7/5/1999 5:23:00 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29987

Totally OT!! Maori is as Maori does Clark, fortunately, so far, there is more good humour and good will than there is genuine nasty apartheid. One can 'identify' as Maori, which is sufficient for most purposes. It's enough to go on the Maori electoral roll for example. It isn't enough to get a seat where it really matters - at the Maori Boardroom Table where the cash is divvied up. To make it in the Iwi [the tribal group] one needs to have a dinkum whakapapa recital [family tree stuff]. Ordinary Maoris don't get their hands in the till unless they are well-connected and that is a sore point with many. It's a great laugh watching the politically correct gender sensitive new agers try to reconcile the idea of women as humans with male dominated marae [the community meeting grounds], where women are not even allowed to speak. Women and children in modern Maori culture get a pretty tough time [unless they are dishing it out to somebody else]. Not that Maori culture is any more homogenous than anybody elses, despite some of the claims to the contrary. It's a bit like Christians all being lovey dovey together [apart from those damn Catholics - and you have to watch those Anglicans, which is why the Presbyterians and Methodists had to form their own tax free enclaves in the holy writ and the Catholic and Protestants have a direct request from God to shoot and bomb each other in acts of, presumably, Christian Love]. A couple of my cousins have already taken care of it and married into Maoridom so their descendants have got dinkum really cool DNA. We were cunning enough to have a child in Canada, so he has taken over that and has two passports. My wife's sister married an American, now has Yankee citizenship and a Yankee child. We are now in the process of taking over Japan. I have a Japanese son [not by way of DNA but by adoption - not legal, just by psychosocial brainwashing]. Incidentally, his real Dad just sent this problem - if you want to save me some thinking, have a go. With the given 4 digits make the value 10. Use only arithmetic operations! >(plus+, minus-, divide/, multiple) >Don't use exponentiation! >a 4, 6, 4, 6 (easy) >b 3, 4, 7, 8 (hard) > >sample1: given 6, 3, 5, 2 >answer: 26-5+3 >sample2: given 3, 9, 4, 7 >answer: (7-4)/3+9 Our daughter fancies a Tongan, so maybe in a few years [she's only 15!] we'll do a DNA raid there! [Or they'll raid us, depending on your point of view]. All good fun! Life's a giggle, Maurice [already got those French bastards!] PS: You don't even need to change your name to identify as Maori, just claim to do so. Many of the Maori Leaders have names like Peter O'Regan or Sir Paul Reeves [ex overall boss man Governor General] or Dr Peter Tapsell [Speaker of the House of Representatives]. These are not down and out tribalists with bones trhough their noses. [Many white ones have taken up sticking bits of metal through their noses in some weird atavistic phenomenon - a good word since Xena popularized it.]