Haka Tua
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.
Itās like a NZ Bollywood movie.
Shouldāve went to Hawaii instead.
The white people being more Maori than the Maori is pretty accurate actually.
I enjoyed the meme, but itās 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.
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.
Youāre right, but itās pretty cringe sometimes. Iāve 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. Itās very performative a lot of the time.
Itās kinda hard to describe the attitude some people have.
Thereās performative bullshit because someone gets it in their head that a karakia is some from of āsupportā. Itās our version of āthoughts and prayersā. 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: thereās another six centuries of history before that just in NZ. Though 19th century is the most important to learn.
No. Itās 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. Theyāre quite happy to exploit MÄori when thereās tourism dollars to be made.
You canāt say no and just prove his point. Good job on the whitewashing though, phenomenal theft of their culture.
Try reading past āNo.ā
Those of us that care enough, will find out the appropriate ways to provide such support.