Posts by Heather Gaye
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I'm not saying any of that was good or that it makes it OK to do it here. But I am saying that here is not the only place it happens, and asians are not the only people it happens to.
I concur. I got the same treatment in the tourist spots in Beijing, as well as general taunts (in English) from passing cars. I'd tend to pass off the hard sell tactics as good business management rather than racism, but it was a real eye-opener walking around like I had a big neon dollar sign attached to my head.
I also have friends who've been in China for some years, and have heard plenty of rude racial slurs, of the "go back to your own country, white dog" variety. Moreover, the way I've heard it, white foreigners don't get anywhere near the worst of it; that's reserved for blacks, and populations from contentious areas like the Uyghur and Taiwanese.
Beside the point though; I think the original comment was misread. Anjum commented on the annoying flak from her own ethnic community, but the follow-up remark was that the core problem for Indians/Chinese in New Zealand isn't racist Indians/Chinese, but racist New Zealanders... with an aside that the racist Indians/Chinese would tend to be the ones in their home country.
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Both times it has surprised me how well the songs held up to that treatment - which maybe shows how good they really are.
I don't know the older songs at all, but I thought that encore was ace. My (somewhat more experienced) companion was swooning. It was also the first time I'd really enjoyed "killing an arab". The only time I thought it didn't really work so well was Lullaby.
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I was half way back on the floor, and the show sound absolutely superb
Very glad to hear that, I'm sitting about there for Crowded House I think. But in that spot for last night's gig it was like every note washed back at me off every inch of the ceiling. Vocals and drums were fine, but the bass & some of the guitar were really difficult to hear at times. The more punchy stuff got lost in its own echo.
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Sara Jane, read the review linked in the disclaimer.
Granted, the acoustics at the arena really are pretty bad. Couldn't they at least pad the ceiling a little?
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Hahahahaha, I was reading and thinking "were we even in the same <i>building</i>???"
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the term is traditionally "coconuts"
No, I'm pretty sure that's just a pejorative for islanders in general.
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what is the equivalent term for Maori / Pacific Islanders who have undergone the same cultural shift?...
I've heard the term "Bounty Bar" used.
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Well, I've tried a number of times to contribute to this particular discussion, but it just makes me tired. I think ron fails to understand just how personally affecting these trials are to perfectly normal, successful women. Or perhaps he thinks that based on a technicality, our horror is unjustified.
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Clearly two alien cultures unable to communicate
*sigh* the story of my career. For five minutes I thought it'd be quite fun to be a business analyst. But no.
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..oh, and Ben: your biggest team is my smallest team, so you're likely onto something. I think probably where we differ (and I've muddled the issue with references to Art) is mainly in definition than anything.
There's plenty of room in the programming world for such attributes as beauty & innovation, & Art in the overriding sense that you've used the term, but I still think of creativity as a utopian concept which is making something from nothing. Programming is making something from the perceived lack of something - filling a gap. Code can be dull & derivative, or beautiful / exciting / sheer genius, but creativity is a facet that I don't think programmers are necessarily trying to achieve.
That's not to detract at all from innovation and elegance - two attributes that I'm fiercely passionate about in my work (and the inevitable side projects). But basically, the quest for creativity is why I write fiction. Coding gives me a similar satisfaction to finishing a crossword puzzle, whereas writing fiction exercises an entirely different part of my brain.