Wednesday, 27 July 2016

Week 2 Homework Tuesday-Thursday

Wordlist/Articles/Facts:

Wordlist:
-        Racism
-        Racist
-        Black
-        White
-        Sensitive
-        Anti
-        Everyday racism
-        Offended
-        Social
-        Community
-        Insult
-        Joke
-        Diss
-        Bigotry
-        Hatred
-        Country
-        Culture
-        Relations
-        Words
-        Ethnicity
-        Divided
-        Nigga
-        Small minded
-        Inferior
-        Intruder
-        Intolerance/tolerance
-        Reciprocation
-        Bully
-        Bi-cultural
-        Multi-cultural
-        Bro
-        Asian
-        Invasion
-        Maori
-        Coconut
-        Indigenous
-        Minority
-        Polynesian  
-        Intentionally
-        Race
-        Institutionalized
-        Issues
-        Humiliated
-        Embarrassed
-        Hurt
-        Stand up
-        Not welcome
-        Subtle
-        Migrants
-        Physical, mental, verbal abuse
-        Voice
-        Respect
-        Nationality
-        Inappropriate
-        Remark
-        Serious
-        Unacceptable
-        Behavior
-        Witness
-        Spectator
-        Blatant
-        Normalized
-        Stereotypes
-        Glances
-        Over reaction
-        Patronizing

Articles Read:

-        https://e2nz.org/2014/04/18/nz-tv-news-anti-british-anti-australian-everyday-racism-in-new-zealand/
-        http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2012/04/racism_in_nz.html


Facts:
The Race Relations Commissioner says statistics revealing Māori are almost three times as likely as non-Māori to have experienced unfair treatment on the basis of ethnicity show agencies need to do more to respond to racial discrimination.

12.4 percent of Māori reported unfair treatment in the areas of health care, housing or work between 2011 and 2012, compared to 4.2 percent of non-Māori.

 the New Zealand Police Force which understood that the likelihood of young Maori to be offenders was much higher than non-Māori.

Māori were more than 1.5 times more likely to have ever experienced ethnically motivated physical or verbal attacks, with more than a quarter of Māori men, or 26.9 percent, having experienced such attacks.

It's really hard, I'd also urge people that are on the sidelines witnessing it to do something too and not to be bystanders, but to actually stand up for people who are being abused."

Overall, 27 percent of Māori adults reported ever having experienced racial discrimination compared to 14 percent of non-Māori.

Poynting cites Winston Peters as an example of how Kiwis can get it horribly wrong. The NZ First leader outraged Chinese home buyers last year by joking that "two Wongs don't make a white".
It was not a good look for the country, Poynting says. "The phrase wasn't funny when it was first used by an Australian politician in 1947 and it isn't funny now.
"The problem is that a lot of people here still think that it is okay to make jokes like that and those who are offended should simply lighten up. The inference is they should stop complaining and fit in.
"But incidents like this and celebrities like Art Green blacking his face get picked up by media overseas.
"They make New Zealanders look foolish."
Zuberi also believes shock presenters like Paul Henry don't help. He famously resigned from TVNZ - after making controversial comments about the New Zealand Governor-General, Sir Anand Satyanand, and the Delhi chief minister, Sheila Dikshit.
"It is interesting he was brought back from Australia and given a prominent role at TV3 despite his past record," he says. "What worries me is that producers are factoring in an element of deliberate outrage to their programming because it boosts viewing figures.
"This is used as a justification for putting out racist messages, casual or otherwise."
The outrage factor often lands at the door of the Human Rights Commission. It has received 2,095 complaints alleging unlawful discrimination in the past five years.
Thirty-six per cent of these were made by people in Auckland, 11 per cent from Wellington, 9 per cent from Canterbury and 5 per cent from the Waikato.
There is nothing casual about racism. This is sometimes a misunderstood term because when you or your children are being humiliated or stereotyped it doesn't feel casual or accidental.
Dame Susan Devoy, Race Relations Commissioner

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