Wordlist/Articles/Facts:
Wordlist:
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Racism
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Racist
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Black
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White
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Sensitive
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Anti
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Everyday racism
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Offended
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Social
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Community
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Insult
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Joke
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Diss
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Bigotry
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Hatred
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Country
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Culture
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Relations
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Words
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Ethnicity
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Divided
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Nigga
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Small minded
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Inferior
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Intruder
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Intolerance/tolerance
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Reciprocation
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Bully
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Bi-cultural
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Multi-cultural
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Bro
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Asian
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Invasion
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Maori
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Coconut
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Indigenous
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Minority
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Polynesian
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Intentionally
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Race
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Institutionalized
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Issues
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Humiliated
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Embarrassed
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Hurt
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Stand up
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Not welcome
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Subtle
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Migrants
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Physical, mental,
verbal abuse
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Voice
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Respect
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Nationality
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Inappropriate
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Remark
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Serious
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Unacceptable
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Behavior
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Witness
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Spectator
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Blatant
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Normalized
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Stereotypes
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Glances
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Over reaction
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Patronizing
Articles Read:
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https://e2nz.org/2014/04/18/nz-tv-news-anti-british-anti-australian-everyday-racism-in-new-zealand/
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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
