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“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.
Kiwi_Owl
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.
Even the "Sir" thing is true nowadays?
Well I mean one of our national Heroes is Sir Edmund Hillary
Servile indeed!