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] Date Posted: 19:31:12 01/10/05 Mon In reply to: Hunches 's message, "Maori" on 14:21:43 01/10/05 Mon That's just the point, laddie. They were there several hundred years longer, and managed to make several hundred animal species and at least one human civilisation completely extinct. Specifically, they ate them all, animals and humans. In all the time that we've been there, the Brits have got rid of maybe a dozen animal species and no human cultures. I like the modern Maoris, but they were rather savage invaders of New Zealand originally, in a way which makes the evil Anglo-Saxons seem like the most good-natured Swiss. Moreover, if you claim that a nation should belong to the people who were first there, then there are a few completely extinct tribes which should rule NZ, and all humans generally should be ruled from the Zambesi Delta (that's Robert Mugabe's stomping ground). As for them being there when England was a province of Normany, it could be argued that the Normans were Scandinavian primitives before they discovered that ships could take them places, and Britain was governed from Rome even before that, and by Welsh druids before that. When do you stop? Perhaps we should dissolve parliament and find some dark-haired, blue-eyed Celts on the Isle of Man to rule us from the Tynwald, which, after all, was the centre of the Scandinavian Empire and has been going for at least 1200 years... Mind you, their present ruler, old Ian Macfadyen, might blench at ruling Britain, since he seems to undertand very little which doesn't have two wings and a jet engine. [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] |