Thursday Week 1

Debate:

During class we had four groups debate against each other, group vs group.

- Statement:
New Zealand still has an equal society.

- Negative group:
Against this statement

- Positive group
For this statement

My group was the negative argument, no one voted against us.

I believe our group worked very well together in execution and preparation. We were successful in proving the point of an unequal society.

I contributed to the team as bering the Rebuttal speaker. I thought I spoke well and had some solid points to rebuttal. These were my points in response to the opposing team:

Points for Rebuttal:

• Its allg to look in the past but we are talking about the 21 century not the 20th century. What are we doing to make NZ equal in the 21st century?

• Point raised by the first speaker talked about looking at ourselves. Yet compares NZ to other countries. Look at ourselves, what about the rest of NZ. the non designers, the older or younger people im sure. Students are not equal as the amount of money we are entitled to from the government are different amounts of money based on what our parents earn etc etc. Our small voice does have a lot of power but what are we doing with our ‘small voice’ is the question. What are we doing to make NZ equal in the 21st century?

• Comparing health care to the rest of the world, what about just the comparison between 1st world countries, where do we rank in that group?

• This debate is focussed on if New Zealand is an equal society, other countries have different governments and different factors to attribute for.
• Comparing racism to other countries doesn’t make it any better it’s like saying murder in nz is fine because it’s worse in America.