05-02-2003, 09:59 AM
Occhidiangela,Apr 30 2003, 07:02 AM Wrote:[i]If they buy their own flag and burn it in political protest, fine, I am free to consider them an asshole, a European, or an Arab: or even all three. :)Just a cultural aside, if that sentence was used here it would not make sense, you use European to describe someone from Europe, here we use it to describe someone with predominantly European ancestry.
Its funny every 4 years at census when you read papers with letters to the editor of 6-8th generation NZers complaining that they are legally required to define themselves as European :blink: