Notorious anti-Semite discovers he is Jewish

[kiwi_2005]

Originally Posted by Betonov

So who's part Croatian. You or the wife ??

The ex wife is jewish & part scottish. Her mother Jewish / father scott. I'm Croatian / Maori my father Croatian mother Maori.

My Father and his family came to New Zealand in the 1940s he was 16 at the time and were gum diggers up north a well known area back then with Dalmatian people, the dalmatians were known around NZ as the best gum diggers in the country. Then later on they brought two farms and farmed ever since. Plenty of Yugoslavians back then took Maori woman to be there wives they were easy pickings. Both parents no longer on this earth. My Father was 45 when he married my mother who was 26. So by the time i was in my 20's my father was hitting 70 but i still manage to spend time with him before he died. We use to fish a lot. He loved the sea.

[Betonov]

Originally Posted by kiwi_2005

the dalmatians were known around NZ as the best gum diggers in the country... We use to fish a lot. He loved the sea.

Dalmacija and the sea. If there was a match made in heaven it was between dalmatians and the sea.
Slovenians think of Dalmatians as the ''Croats we love''

[kiwi_2005]

Originally Posted by Betonov

Dalmacija and the sea. If there was a match made in heaven it was between dalmatians and the sea.
Slovenians think of Dalmatians as the ''Croats we love''

So are you croat? Excuse my newb-ness i don't know to much about my fathers side wish i did, i remember him teaching me the language when i was young but have lost it now. One thing i will never forget when a kid was when his brothers & cousins would turn up and gather round the table on the weekends talking in their language and getting all excited and very loud drinking wine and chatting bout the good old days in the old country they use to call it. I also remember when the war broke out in Yugoslavia in the 90s my father would be glued to the TV news watching it every day. He was really sad about that.

One day before i die i will make sure i make a trip to Croatia.

[Betonov]

Originally Posted by kiwi_2005

So are you croat?

Slovene. Slovenia is the neighbouring country of Croatia and also a former Yugoslav state.
We're sort of sieblings, Slovenes and Croats. Cant live without eachother and cant stand eachother. Every summer hordes of Slovenes immigrate to sunny Croatian coast and every winter Croats invade our ski centers. Both countries declared independence within days of eachother, but we still havent resolved our maritime border in 20 years. Trade is unhindered and strong. It's the politicians and nationalists on both sides that seem to spoil the fun for everyone.

Soory to hear your father is dead. If you'd mention to him that you've talked with a Slovene, you'd surely get a reaction out of him

[kiwi_2005]

Originally Posted by Betonov

Slovene. Slovenia is the neighbouring country of Croatia and also a former Yugoslav state.
We're sort of sieblings, Slovenes and Croats. Cant live without eachother and cant stand eachother. Every summer hordes of Slovenes immigrate to sunny Croatian coast and every winter Croats invade our ski centers. Both countries declared independence within days of eachother, but we still havent resolved our maritime border in 20 years. Trade is unhindered and strong. It's the politicians and nationalists on both sides that seem to spoil the fun for everyone.

Soory to hear your father is dead. If you'd mention to him that you've talked with a Slovene, you'd surely get a reaction out of him

Ah i see thanks for that, yeah im sure i would of got a reaction out of him.

[Penguin]

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Originally Posted by kiwi_2005

My Father and his family came to New Zealand in the 1940s he was 16 at the time and were gum diggers up north a well known area back then with Dalmatian people [...]

Very interesting family history, kiwi, had to look up what a gum digger is though .
It never came to my mind that there is a NZ-Yugo connection, who would have thought so. We have many immigrants from the Balkans here, though most came in the 60s and we are around the corner. Immigrating in the 40s to the other end of the world, with all the stuff going on in Croatia, during the war and post-war: impressive! Glad your father's family made it!

[kiwi_2005]

Originally Posted by Penguin

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Very interesting family history, kiwi, had to look up what a gum digger is though .
It never came to my mind that there is a NZ-Yugo connection, who would have thought so. We have many immigrants from the Balkans here, though most came in the 60s and we are around the corner. Immigrating in the 40s to the other end of the world, with all the stuff going on in Croatia, during the war and post-war: impressive! Glad your father's family made it!

Heaps of dallies migrated to NZ from early 1890s to mid 1940s. There was a serb family that came here when the 1990's war was happening. I was working at the local school at the time and the day he bought his boys in to enrol i caught his surname so ask him if he was from Yugoslavia, yes I am Serbian and brought my family to NZ to escape the war, oh, i sort of stepped back as i knew the serbs and croats were at each others throats over there, well im croat and went to shake his hand, we were buddies from that day onwards. Funny guy easy to get on with. Then they moved to the city couple of years later cause of his job, still keep in contact with him when he comes down this way.

Edit:
A bit of history of Dalmatians in NZ
http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/dalmatians/1