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What do you think we look like?
She's got you there, Kyle.
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One of the(many) things my mother & myself *loved* about Canada was
- to be sitting at a writers' do - or an academic conference - and me explaining that Kai Tahu were much inter-married with all kinds of folk and not to be worried that we looked kinda 'white'-at which point - everytime! - a person would stand up and say (paraphrase) "Well, I look kinda white too, but my greatgrand-dad was a Micmac, and he married this Scots woman-"
at which point quite a lot of the partakers/audience would explode into laughter, and the stories came out to be shared...
hooray for diversity!
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Apologies - attempting to recall a double posting here...
As you were.
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Aaaaand let the apology road trip begin!
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hooray for diversity!
Indeed - but "boo" to the passive-aggressive profiling, which I still do even though I try to check myself. And it's not only racial/ethnic. Funny how often I put all kinds of labels on people with a glance; perhaps it's inevitable, but still not a good thing.
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Agreed, Craig. But even if it's inevitable, the fact that we recognise that we're doing it or have just done it, can be a good thing, no? Little teachable moments (or kick-yourself-in-the-butt moments) every day.
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I expect we're all about ready to run out the room screaming at the next mention of "Paul Henry", but if anyone's a glutton for punishment ...
Here's Michele Hewitson's interview with him, two and a half years ago.
I don't know if TVNZ bosses bother reading the Herald, but it's not like Henry was pretending to be Geoff Robinson. "This is who I am", he said. Nobody heard.
(or rather, they heard, and wanted more ...)
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Thanks, simon g.
I now know that he's not just playing at not understanding what he did wrong, but that he genuinely has no freaking clue. Interesting.
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That Michele Hewitson interview was pure gold.
I don't think I've got the attention span to learn long enough to be as good as I know I could be and it would annoy me enormously to half play the piano. It's better not to play at all."
I would love to say he was boring. Alas, no. But I'm sure if he tried, he'd be the best in the world at it.
Empty. And to boot, he hasn't got the attention span of a gnat.
Correction. Yes he has.
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He really does seem to fuque-ing believe he is good at - or could be good at - everything & anything.
There is a name for this disorder...
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