Racial attitudes
Sir. — Hilda article (April 3) Introduces fresh air into the inter-racial animosities which dema-< gogues like to arouse. Racialist charges against the pakeha began in j the- -’l96()s when -America, rightly .feeling guilty about its own racial attitudes, began to examine its conscience., In imita-. tion, local liberals and politicoes stirred up racial animosities in New Zealand which had had an exceptionally good record. “I wasn’t conscious of being a Maori till a few years ago,” a Maori leader told me. If you keep telling a group (or person) that it is badly treated /it will quickly develop a persecution complex which ,it uses to its best advantage; -The basic trouble is: the modern mixture of urbanisa- • tion, affluence, greed and ambition for material possessions backed up by the unnaturally intense educational training required for “success.” Polynesians are certainly not the onlv groups affected by new society attitudes. — Yours, etc.,
V. F. WILKINSON. April 3, 1980.
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