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We were barbequing some meat near the Tahunanui beach when Max said that as an Irish-born immigrant, Kit wasn’t a real Kiwi. While in Nelson, down very South, a good friend of mine Kit Carson, a farmer, woodturner and artist taught me an important lesson. the great rugby player, Jonah Lomu was of Tongan origin, an Islander – not a Maori). Locals struggled to tell us apart, the same as we struggled to tell the English from the Dutch or the Maoris from the Pacific Islanders (NB. We never bothered (very wisely) to call it Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian or… I was just one of us, ex-Yugoslavs and we all spoke naški – our language. At the same time, for most the Yugoslav immigrants in Aotearoa, I was naš – ours.

Pakeha or Caucasian, that was the choice I had. I learnt the trade and a couple of years later, upon graduation, I could tell ALL the commercial fish species in the South Pacific.įilling the many forms of the New Zealand immigration service and later of the government, I identified as a Pakeha, the Maori term for white people and, apparently, also for a pig. I too found myself in a new setting, in Nelson, New Zealand where a friend of a friend operated a fleet of fishing boats. In the early nineties, many of my countrymen (and women) fled the war. It was only in the late 90s that I noticed that the footballer Edson Arantes do Nascimento better known as Pele was black! And I remember watching him play for the first time in Sweden 1970! It took me thirty years or perhaps, ten years of living in an English-speaking country to think of the great football magician in terms of race. I grew up in Belgrade listening to African American blues musicians such as BB King, Jimi Hendrix, John Lee Hooker and Blind Lemon Jefferson, playing basketball to better the likes of Michael Jordan and Magic Johnson! Through the non-aligned movement, it had many links with third-world countries and we used to call Africans: braća crnci, Black Brothers.

I was born in Yugoslavia, the most multicultural country in Europe. It has nothing to do with me.Įxcept that… it has everything to do with me and there is no-one to speak out for me! How did a refugee from war-torn socialist Yugoslavia turned fisherman in the South Pacific become a privileged White male? How come I find myself in this bizarre situation?

People in the streets and on television say that Whites should kneel and apologise.

In this country I am regarded as White and therefore, privileged – it seems.

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