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Sir,—Apparently a Methodist minister, here on a visit from Ceylon, takes a pretty dim view of certain aspects of toe New Zealand way of life. “Your newspapers,” he informs us, “are empty about the world outside. Anyone reading than wouldn't know there is a world Some of you don’t even know what a man who comes from Ceylon is called. One of your newspapers called me a Sinhalese. I am a Tamil ” So now we know just where we get off; but, with all respect to the reverend gentleman’s cloth, whether Sinhalese or Tamil, his animadversions make little sense. “The Press" and other papers probably give far more news of toe world in general than do those of most other countries, including, possibly, Ceylon. As for everyone not knowing a Tamil from a Sinhalese, how many Ceylonese could differentiate between, say, a Breton and a Basque, a Kalmuck and a Kurd, or even, for that matter, a Maori and a pakeha?—Yours, etc, ILAM. November 30, 1962.
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29994, 1 December 1962, Page 3
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