PREJUDICE AGAINST UNKNOWN

Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 168, 17 July 1924, Page 8

PREJUDICE AGAINST UNKNOWN

(To the Editor.!' I Sir. —1 heartily endorse tie nJKj of Stanley Field in Friday's ksntiH a fact that there exists a fe«fci|| enmity towards Americans or ameS American by the great majority (Mβ Zealanders. Why this should be a'Hj hard to say. It does not east e«b American side. During my horMO ' twenty years' residence in Amerial!B| not heard a single opinion espH about New Zealand or Australia tJ| wag antagonistic. But "ask tte reß Xew Zealander his opinion of tlel*|| and he will tell you they are e s IsH skites" and "dollar-chasing-crjfok'lH seem to' think America io-peopH'W| race of degenerates, who are out I : K| all and sundry, that a murderer.M behind every telegraph post, atd» ; , men work at a breakneck jece bv| hours a day for a mere exister-E----know quite a few Xew Zealudenß have gone to America anil arc ;K----content to stay there, and lave ifl that the Yanks are quite decent to know. I have lived some ten dg in New Zealand and my experieeM that there are no more" untoinlfeg a community of Americans tlm6B are in a Xew Zealand standard of living and wages is upK or better, they enjoy as many pmi«j| have as good facilities for eduatioinß enjoy life as much as any New ZealicK I "have nothing againit »w Zealud,H Ido say, be fair. —I am, e,t<:, H