Comments by "Toby" (@toby9999) on "Emotional wedding Haka moves Maori bride to tears, NZ | euronews 🇬🇧" video.

  1. Ramona Radford OK, so I can't speak for every single person in Australia... of course you would realize that... but what's your point? My point was that Australia has a positive vibe about it on Australia Day which includes a pride in the nation and a generally positive attitude toward multiculturalism. I attend the Australia Day celebrations and that's just how it is. It's of no interest to me whether or not it was once called invasion day. I don't live in the past. By contrast, Waitangi Day in NZ is a rather depressing affair. Protests, protests and more protests. It's a backward looking event. There was a positive moment in NZ's history when Waitangi Day became New Zealand Day. But a backward looking government reverted it to Waitangi Day in typical fashion.
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  2. Ramona Radford Australia and New Zealand can very definitely be compared. No one is saying they are identical but there are more similarities than differences. I think you are being intentionally mischievous.
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  3. Iva Lamkum "...with NZ is that we embrace, represent & celebrate cultural diversity as one"... LOL. That's not the New Zealand I grew up in. NZ is bi-cultural in the main. I left NZ in large part because of racism and because my wife who is Asian was tired of the racial slurs.
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  4. +ryang58 I would say you paint a pretty accurate picture. I am a New Zealander living in Australia so I have experienced life in both countries for substantial periods of time. Personally, I find Australia to be less racist and more accepting of multiculturalism than NZ. That's one of the main reasons why I live in Australia. I would describe New Zealand as being bi-cultural i.e. there is predominantly Maori and Pakeha (white man). Other cultures take a 'back seat'. Being referred to as Pakeha was pretty much an every day occurrence. There was or possibly still is a kind of ingrained racial tension between Maori and Pakeha. Waitangi Day, New Zealand's equivalent of Australia Day was always a day of race based protests, a re-raising of past grievances and general mayhem. Contrast that with my experience in Australia where cultural diversity is celebrated on Australia day. A day where everyone comes together to celebrate being Australian.
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  5. +CaptainOkay Correct!
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  6. Iva Lamkum Thanks for the kind thoughts.
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