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Post by Kiwi Frontline on Dec 14, 2017 6:39:18 GMT 12
MODERNISATION
Colonisation is simply the wrong word for a country becoming modern. It should be called Modernisation, because the entire world has been affected by it, the Pacific Islands now have been too, they now mostly live with power, TV's, maybe internet.....( I use the PI as they were the next closest thing to savage maori were back in the day).
This was always coming to the World, I guess the most primitive struggled to keep up, but jeez, many sophisticated countries struggled to keep up.
Now maori keep going on and on about how colonisation did them harm. Well if it was not the Brits it was going to be the French, they did come and they were only slightly too late. We know what the French wanted to do after Marion Du Fresne was attacked and 29 French crew murdered.
If it wasn't either of these two countries coming it would have been a different country... and ALL of them would have started the modernisation of NZ... into what we have today.
Some maori embraced this and did well, which is a credit to them... many these days say it was unjust. Well you tell that to an advancing world, because no matter what, you could not stop it.
Time to lay the blame on themselves for not making the best of a bettering world around them.
By L B
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