You wonder if you should pull them up but worry that you'll create a bigger problem or be accused of playing the race card by inflating harmless banter into racism.
He said that the onus, then, fell on the targets of these comments, but said it was always a conundrum for the players. So, there's no pushback no one corrects them."
But he's hearing it as white person, and it's not directed at people like him. In all probability, a Pakeha listening to those sorts of comments would think, 'Oh, that's okay, it's just a bit of banter'. "Other players also had to put up with comments that dwelt on their ethnicity. A teammate used to tell me, 'You're half a good guy, Ross, but which half is good? You don't know what I'm referring to'. "In many ways, dressing-room banter is the barometer.
"That has its challenges, many of which aren't readily apparent to your teammates or the cricketing public," Taylor wrote. For much of my career I've been an anomaly, a brown face in a vanilla line-up," .nz quoted him as writing in his book. "Cricket in New Zealand is a pretty white sport. Taylor, who is part Samoan, said he had been "an anomaly" for large parts of his career.
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