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Originally posted by Downunda:
we're imperialised?
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Yeah man, we got up to some nasty business in the nineteenth century. Mainly involved pushing the Cook Islands and Samoa around. One thing's for certain, France was NOT popular in the mid Nineteenth Century.
Did you know that the South island was mere weeks away from becoming a French colony? French officials were going to land at Akaroa in 1840 and claim the island from there. The British got in a few weeks before them (with that blasted treaty of Waitangi). Imagine it man, the North and South Islands as totally different Nations, speaking totally different languages. It'd be weird...
ps: woo hoo! I've been up all night, but my seminar is ready!! Let's just hope I'm awake enough to actually give it come 10am [img]smile.gif[/img]