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[labellementeuse]

Also, and importantly: Goodbye 5c coin, hello... new, shiny, much, much smaller ten, twenty and fifty cent pieces!



And the 10c has a bronze finish now, too.

omfg this is actually sort of exciting?

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[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

See, I understand the dislike of nationalism, and even agree to an extent. I can understand disliking the concept of money. But I really don't get disliking the actual paper money. *shrug*

Re: !

[amarynth.livejournal.com]

I don't dislike the existence of money - I'm an anti capitalist but not to the extent I think we should barter.

One of the main things I dislike about nationalism is the need to hammer our 'heritage' into us at every turn with symbols, images and other memes that are supposed to connect us to our 'national identity'. And putting a bunch of famous New Zealanders on our money is one of the most effective ways this is done. Not that I don't have respect (if varying levels of it) for people like Apirana Ngata, Kate Shepherd, Ernie Rutherford and, yes, even Sir Hillary, but they don't deserve to be made into propaganda tools.

Ironically, I probably object to the Queen's presence there the least, since her presence on the money is related to an actual, definable legal relationship with the institution that issues the money, not due to a shared citizenship.