“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
Even the "Sir" thing is true nowadays?
Well I mean one of our national Heroes is Sir Edmund Hillary
Servile indeed!
It's as if they made an entire country out of the most insufferable parts of Wahroonga and the Southern Highlands.
Kiwi_Owl
Explains a lot
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