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Salient: An organ of student opinion at Victoria University, Wellington. Vol. 23, No. 3. Monday, April 11, 1960

Racial

Racial

This is probably the overseas student's most distressing and deeply felt problem. He has lived in a land of varied races, with large Asian or European foreign communities. He is aware of racial conflict, of the privileges a man can receive because of his race, and of the misery which the exercise of that privilege can bring to others. His land is probably one where the European, and particularly the Englishman, is looked upon with distrust. No doubt he has heard that this is a land of racial equality, and so he will come here with conflicting thoughts; is there really equality here? Have these people anything in their way of life to give my people? Do they want to receive anything from us? Is racial equality and harmony really a mirage?