Post by Kiwi Frontline on Dec 2, 2016 16:42:06 GMT 12
FLOAT FEATURING IN CHRISTCHURCH SANTA PARADE CALLED CULTURALLY INSENSITIVE'
A Native American float will feature in Christchurch's Santa Parade this weekend, despite a complaint about it.
Christchurch residents Michelle and Derek Flores have asked the float be removed from the parade, saying it's culturally insensitive.
In an email to the organisers, she said the float which featured "white NZ-European children and adults dressed as First Nations, Native Americans" was highly inappropriate and culturally insensitive.
"They have no business being in any public parade, let alone a Santa Parade."
She said many people didn't seem to understand how inappropriate it was for white people to dress up in "redface".
"If white Americans or Canadians dressed up as Māori people with brown paint on their faces and in traditional Māori dress and had a float in a Santa parade doing the haka somewhere in North America, that would be incredibly inappropriate, right?"....
www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/319439/chch-santa-parade-float-called-'culturally-insensitive'
A Native American float will feature in Christchurch's Santa Parade this weekend, despite a complaint about it.
Christchurch residents Michelle and Derek Flores have asked the float be removed from the parade, saying it's culturally insensitive.
In an email to the organisers, she said the float which featured "white NZ-European children and adults dressed as First Nations, Native Americans" was highly inappropriate and culturally insensitive.
"They have no business being in any public parade, let alone a Santa Parade."
She said many people didn't seem to understand how inappropriate it was for white people to dress up in "redface".
"If white Americans or Canadians dressed up as Māori people with brown paint on their faces and in traditional Māori dress and had a float in a Santa parade doing the haka somewhere in North America, that would be incredibly inappropriate, right?"....
www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/319439/chch-santa-parade-float-called-'culturally-insensitive'