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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!

Linky, pp.531-533

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[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 32 points 2 months ago (4 children)

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.

[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 16 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Even the "Sir" thing is true nowadays?

[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 16 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Well I mean one of our national Heroes is Sir Edmund Hillary

[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 13 points 2 months ago

Servile indeed!

[–] Mardoniush@hexbear.net 13 points 2 months ago

It's as if they made an entire country out of the most insufferable parts of Wahroonga and the Southern Highlands.

[–] axont@hexbear.net 13 points 2 months ago
[–] ShareThatBread@hexbear.net 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I grew up in NZ

Explains a lot

[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 1 points 2 months ago
[–] Diuretic_Materialism@hexbear.net 11 points 2 months ago

Also all their owls are dirty

[–] HorseRabbit@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] alexandra_kollontai@hexbear.net 2 points 2 months ago

it's like trying to read an image from a conspiracy chanboard

[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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.