Lenin on New Zealanders
Lenin on New Zealanders
“A country of inveterate, backwoods, thick-headed, egotistical philistines, who have brought their “civilisation” with them from England and keep it to themselves like a dog in a manger.”
“Snobbishness of the population: servility towards the aristocracy”
Very prescient, as usual, Lenin!
I grew up in NZ and can say that he is spot on. Especially about the snobbishness. White New Zealanders are like white Australians, but more snobbish.
Australia: cowboy british
New Zealand: Boer British
It's as if they made an entire country out of the most insufferable parts of Wahroonga and the Southern Highlands.
Kiwi_Owl
I grew up in NZ
Explains a lot
:yea:
the differences between anglo settler countries are mostly to do with branding
Also all their owls are dirty
This formatting is a lot
it's like trying to read an image from a conspiracy chanboard
iirc it's directly from his notebook/journal, so it's not an offical publication, so whomever put this in this format tried to sorta give it a similar layout to his scribbling in a page/adding notes in the margins.