The white people being more Maori than the Maori is pretty accurate actually.
No. Itâs just that some of us PÄkehÄ actually care about preserving and supporting a people and a culture that our ancestors did their best to eradicate.
Those of us that care enough, will find out the appropriate ways to provide such support.
Auckland Airport has some (IMHO somewhat crass) token MÄoritanga in the international terminal. Theyâre quite happy to exploit MÄori when thereâs tourism dollars to be made.
You canât say no and just prove his point. Good job on the whitewashing though, phenomenal theft of their culture.
Try reading past âNo.â
Those of us that care enough, will find out the appropriate ways to provide such support.
I enjoyed the meme, but itâs still better to have folks embrace your indigenous culture than try to stamp it out or banish it to the undesirable parts of your homeland.
Youâre right, but itâs pretty cringe sometimes. Iâve seen a video call full of white people having a meeting about something that has nothing whatsoever to do with Maoridom start a meeting with a Karakira. Itâs very performative a lot of the time.
Itâs kinda hard to describe the attitude some people have.
Thereâs performative bullshit because someone gets it in their head that a karakia is some from of âsupportâ. Itâs our version of âthoughts and prayersâ. A token gesture requiring no actual effort or investment to tick a box.
IMHO one of the best things to do is just lean our actual history, and not just post European contact history: thereâs another six centuries of history before that just in NZ. Though 19th century is the most important to learn.
Unfortunately it got embraced heavily in corporate office culture not so much in everyday culture so most peoples day to day experience with maori culture is very soulless and performative. The only positive is its keeping the language alive.
I flew to New Zealand and the only thing I saw on arrival was the baggage handlers throwing the suitcases so hard into the trailer that they fell off the other side.
Haka Tua
Itâs like a NZ Bollywood movie.
Shouldâve went to Hawaii instead.