Consular

I like it! Did Winnipeg put it together?

I see the board has changed a bit. It looks very nice.

Pretty much the definition of "New Zealander", because we don't feel self conscious enough as a nation to classify people as that. So we call them NZ Europeans. I suppose that could be seen as colour based given it's separate from Maori, but I see it more as a cultural thing. If we were going for skin colour we wouldn't give the other ethnic options like South African, German, etc

I wonder if URAP still plays NS. I don't care enough to look.

Damnit BBD. Why do you always forget to feed them.

Our census data here definitely does not list people as white. It makes no attempt to categorise by skin colour actually.

Never mind the fact that "white" isn't even an ethnicity. It's a skin colour...? What's the point of dividing people by skin colour? It's not indicative of culture or beliefs or practice or anything at all really. Why on earth would "white" include middle easterners anyway. They are neither white by skin colour nor "white" culturally.

I think you have a very broad definition of "white".

Much gravedig. Also, ew, buzzfeed.

Uhm.. I'll have to check if there's space for you then. Schedule's pretty booked out.

I'm a dual citizen of New Zealand and Italy. That's both my ethnicity and nationality I guess.

Tuesday.

omg that's so glorious

lol Anyway. In my mind, the Delegate is the source of all authority and power, and so any powers should flow from that position. At the same time though, 'legitimacy' involves a certain level of respect for others. Sometimes erroneously called a democratic mandate. I think the Delegate has to balance their own power to a degree with the community. So ideally a system would be cooperative between the Delegate, who holds the power, and some kind of assembly of the nations the Delegate leads. I don't think this needs to be overly formalised. The absolute worst thing I can imagine is us getting bogged down in obsessions over laws and amendments and all that nonsense that makes TNP look so very tedious.