Post by Kiwi Frontline on Jun 6, 2022 13:16:38 GMT 12
MAORI ARE SO ASHAMED OF THEIR HERITAGE
G S writes > “When you talk about Maori culture is it the pre-treaty culture or the modern day fantasised version?
Maori are so ashamed of their heritage that they have gone to great lengths to alter the written history to portray themselves in a better light. Despite their efforts to adulterate history and have their "good guy" image portrayed in the schools, thanks to the efforts of historians, early writers , mainly missionaries these events have been recorded in writing.
Fortunately they can't alter everything and their true history is still available in books and on some websites.
They were primitive cannibals living in a state of fear and anxiety, continually fighting to get at the resources and food their "enemy" held. Whatever culture they had was largely based on utu, they had a poor diet, cultivated a miserable kumara , treated women poorly and had seen no real social advancement since the first arrivals.
Maori have this unsupported notion that they, "the indigenous peoples" have a special relationship, a spiritual kinship, with nature that makes them superior caretakers of the land. This belief is completely false. It is unfortunately supported by our condescending, racist Government that uphold this belief that Maori were natural conservationists, possessing strange links and sympathies with the land and its plants and animals beyond the understanding of anybody but Maori.
Utter rubbish.
Maori were not conservationists they would kill anything that moved in order to survive , Maori were responsible for the destruction of approximately 6.7 million hectares of forest cover in their pursuit of the Moa, and approximately 30 bird species were killed off prior to colonisation. Fortunately they didn't have torches or we may well have seen the extinction of our national emblem - the Kiwi. They have no more interest in nature and the outdoors than any other New Zealander, in fact I would suggest they have less concern for the environment .
The arrival of europeans changed their "culture" dramatically, they moved from a stoneage life without laws into a civilised world in a relatively short period of time, unfortunately some aspects of their early culture remain and the idea of taking something without earning it is still prevalent.
G S writes > “When you talk about Maori culture is it the pre-treaty culture or the modern day fantasised version?
Maori are so ashamed of their heritage that they have gone to great lengths to alter the written history to portray themselves in a better light. Despite their efforts to adulterate history and have their "good guy" image portrayed in the schools, thanks to the efforts of historians, early writers , mainly missionaries these events have been recorded in writing.
Fortunately they can't alter everything and their true history is still available in books and on some websites.
They were primitive cannibals living in a state of fear and anxiety, continually fighting to get at the resources and food their "enemy" held. Whatever culture they had was largely based on utu, they had a poor diet, cultivated a miserable kumara , treated women poorly and had seen no real social advancement since the first arrivals.
Maori have this unsupported notion that they, "the indigenous peoples" have a special relationship, a spiritual kinship, with nature that makes them superior caretakers of the land. This belief is completely false. It is unfortunately supported by our condescending, racist Government that uphold this belief that Maori were natural conservationists, possessing strange links and sympathies with the land and its plants and animals beyond the understanding of anybody but Maori.
Utter rubbish.
Maori were not conservationists they would kill anything that moved in order to survive , Maori were responsible for the destruction of approximately 6.7 million hectares of forest cover in their pursuit of the Moa, and approximately 30 bird species were killed off prior to colonisation. Fortunately they didn't have torches or we may well have seen the extinction of our national emblem - the Kiwi. They have no more interest in nature and the outdoors than any other New Zealander, in fact I would suggest they have less concern for the environment .
The arrival of europeans changed their "culture" dramatically, they moved from a stoneage life without laws into a civilised world in a relatively short period of time, unfortunately some aspects of their early culture remain and the idea of taking something without earning it is still prevalent.
