Post by Kiwi Frontline on Feb 18, 2019 5:07:28 GMT 12
Dominion Post 18/2/19
IGNORING LOGIC
The appalling redundancies of science experts at Te Papa and the increasing dominance of Maori placenames in Wellington city seem to be indicative of a more general national trend to ignore science and logical thinking, replacing it with populist dogma.
Our national museum should reflect the best in New Zealand science and research, not be a dumbed-down display area.
I do not object to bilingual signs as such, but I do object to signs with either no English at all or Maori wording four times the size of the English wording.
We have a Treaty of Waitangi, but it should not lead to the views of some 15 per cent of the population replacing a rational and scientific approach to life and social development. If we go too far down these paths our future as a first-rate nation may be in doubt.
TIMOTHY JOHN SKINNER, Upper Hutt
Hawkes Bay Today 18/2/19
NOT INDIGENOUS
Re opinion in Tuesday's paper "Treaty's true partnership".
Maori are not indigenous.
Australian aborigines, American Indians are indigenous. Indigenous means originating or occurring naturally in a particular place.
The Chinese were here in the15th century. The upside down remains of 80 vessels are visible today on the coast from Catlins to Moeraki and on Banks Peninsula. The Moeraki boulders are not natural formations, they are weights used to raise and lower the sails on giant junks.
These junks traversed the globe, not eating but embracing the cultures they came across, gaining knowledge. There are signs of them everywhere — ancient canals in Marlborough, gardens in Palliser Bay, a smelter in Akaroa, the Kaimanawa wall, mouldering remains in the Kaingaroa forest.
New Zealand government and Maori historians are presented as deliberately obstructing and even conspiring to hide the truth required to toe aparty line about our past.
CHRIS MACKRELL, Havelock North
sites.google.com/site/kiwifrontline/letters-submitted-to-newspapers
IGNORING LOGIC
The appalling redundancies of science experts at Te Papa and the increasing dominance of Maori placenames in Wellington city seem to be indicative of a more general national trend to ignore science and logical thinking, replacing it with populist dogma.
Our national museum should reflect the best in New Zealand science and research, not be a dumbed-down display area.
I do not object to bilingual signs as such, but I do object to signs with either no English at all or Maori wording four times the size of the English wording.
We have a Treaty of Waitangi, but it should not lead to the views of some 15 per cent of the population replacing a rational and scientific approach to life and social development. If we go too far down these paths our future as a first-rate nation may be in doubt.
TIMOTHY JOHN SKINNER, Upper Hutt
Hawkes Bay Today 18/2/19
NOT INDIGENOUS
Re opinion in Tuesday's paper "Treaty's true partnership".
Maori are not indigenous.
Australian aborigines, American Indians are indigenous. Indigenous means originating or occurring naturally in a particular place.
The Chinese were here in the15th century. The upside down remains of 80 vessels are visible today on the coast from Catlins to Moeraki and on Banks Peninsula. The Moeraki boulders are not natural formations, they are weights used to raise and lower the sails on giant junks.
These junks traversed the globe, not eating but embracing the cultures they came across, gaining knowledge. There are signs of them everywhere — ancient canals in Marlborough, gardens in Palliser Bay, a smelter in Akaroa, the Kaimanawa wall, mouldering remains in the Kaingaroa forest.
New Zealand government and Maori historians are presented as deliberately obstructing and even conspiring to hide the truth required to toe aparty line about our past.
CHRIS MACKRELL, Havelock North
sites.google.com/site/kiwifrontline/letters-submitted-to-newspapers