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The inclusion of a poem by an anti-Chinese extremist in an NCEA Level 2 History exam has raised concerns from students. (File photo)
The New Zealand Chinese Association will be formally making a complaint after a poem by an anti-Chinese extremist was included in an NCEA Level 2 history exam.
The poem, called
Emotional Insanity by anti-Chinese extremist Lionel Terry, was part of an end-of-year history test. The test was about examining “sources of a historical event that is of significance to New Zealanders” and focused on mental health facility Seacliff and included people's experiences there.
Terry was an Englishman who handed out pamphlets on racial purity. He is known for murdering Chinese man Joe Kum Yung on Wellington’s Haining St in 1905