calling someone a 'Kiwi' racial discrimination?

[davidc4430]

Tribunal finds calling someone a 'Kiwi' does not count as racial discrimination

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-12-03/tribunal-finds-calling-worker-kiwi-not-racial-discrimination/...

to me its like a new zealander calling me 'aussie'

i am an 'aussie'

[marwi_3023]

They might feel better if we said it Kuwu

[davidc4430]

the one i have the most trouble with is calling the english 'poms'

most of them dont mind but some get really upset.

where would the 'ashes' be without the 'poms'?

[kopenhagen5]

Poms is a little different, it has often been used in a derogatory manner.

Thought to have come from pomegranate, rhyming slang for immigrant or Prisoner Of Motherland.

If we think of Aussie and Kiwi then for English, Brit is probably closer to a similarity.

[not_for_sale2025]

What's it all becoming when something like this can end up in a Tribunal.

I would think most people from NZ would be proud of the term and regard

it as an honour to be viewed a Kiwi. I think some people look for opportunities

to get money and will cry foul because they can.

[lyndal1838]

The expression Poms goes back to the convict times.....it was ogininally POME or Prisoner of Mother England.

Some of the British still get upset at being compared to convicts whereas it is a badge of honour here in Australia.

[zanadoo_56]

I don't know if being called a convict is a badge of honour, but there are certainly some Aussies who are proud to say they are descended from convicts on the First Fleet or later (though it's probably a good idea to find out what they were transported for before mentioning it).

I personally find the 'joke' that Australia is full of convicts (or descendants othereof) to be quite tedious....but that's probably because though we might look like ex-POMs (heheh) my family originally came to Oz during the mid 1800s gold rush......and not from England.