The hypocrisy of the NZ First leader wooing politicians in Asia as our Foreign Minister while his deputy Peter Brown demonises Asians in New Zealand will not be lost in regional capitals.
While we understand that Mr Brown (a recent class-impacted Brit wharfie migrant!) is making inflammatory remarks about Asian migrants only to shore up support for his party in the upcoming elections, we need to remind him that he is also undermining race relations in New Zealand. His stirring of latent white racism in people who cannot accept the implications of a multicultural New Zealand anchored in the Asia-Pacific region, will do far more harm than some recent immigrants maintaining their cultural practices while learning to integrate into New Zealand’s mainstream society.
Mr Brown can take heart from our experience which is that such integration will happen within half a generation. Most of our own members, some fourth and fifth generation Chinese New Zealanders, no longer run takeaways in ghettos, but instead have careers in the professions, business or the arts, are all-too-well integrated, speak English too good and now need special programmes to maintain even a modicum of Chinese language and culture.
(Darft letter to NZ Herald)
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