Privileged and Elitist - by A Halfling’s View

Should Seeking the Best Be a Problem?

There is an attitude in New Zealand which may explain the difficulty that many have in wanting to achieve their full potential. It has been referred to in a couple of ways – the “tall poppy” syndrome, the “politics of envy” – and is characterized by the use of formulaic language or characteristic words that are used to sum up an argument or stereotype an individual or diminish and that person’s standing based, not on the quality of what that person says or the actions that person has done or accomplished but as a result of some vague quality that is found to be unacceptable in the eyes of…

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