Racist Comments Controversy
The pro-independence movements in French Polynesia have long pointed the finger at the European community. In 2007, Temaru was found guilty of "racial discrimination" by the criminal court of Papeete for having referred to the Europeans living in French Polynesia as "trash", "waste". Temaru has appealed his conviction for racial discrimination.
More recently, the Chinese community which controls many businesses in French Polynesia has been targeted in verbal attacks by the newly allied Gaston Flosse and Oscar Temaru in their political fight against Gaston Tong Sang, whose Chinese origins they emphasize in contrast with their Polynesian origins, despite the fact that they both have mixed origins (European and Polynesian for Flosse; Polynesian and Chinese for Temaru).
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