CULTURAL APPROPRIATION A MINEFIELD FOR IMAGE-CONSCIOUS AND R

[Kiwi Frontline]

CULTURAL APPROPRIATION A MINEFIELD FOR IMAGE-CONSCIOUS AND RISK-AVERSE COMPANIES

And here's another thing. Guardians of Māori culture sometimes give the impression that all things Māori are off-limits. But what's striking about complaints of cultural appropriation in the Māori context is that they flow only one way.

Māori are free to borrow from other cultures, as they have enthusiastically done since their first contact with Europeans, yet they seem to expect their own culture to be treated as sacrosanct. Is that fair or consistent?

Māori eat food, play sports and wear clothing that were brought to New Zealand from other countries. They have become expert exponents of reggae music, which comes from Jamaica.

Nobody objects, and neither should they, because every culture on earth has borrowed, stolen and adapted ideas from others since the dawn of time. That's how civilisation progresses.

Virtually everything we do – the books we read, the ideas we adopt, the clothes we wear, the food we eat, the language we use, the songs we sing and the religions we follow – came from somewhere else.....

By Karl du Fresne

www.stuff.co.nz/national/110665972/cultural-appropriation-a-minefield-for-imageconscious-and-riskaverse-companies

[second-class-citizen]

Also, maori have stolen ideas and pretended to practice it all along. Like conservation....maori wiped out the Moa, Moriori and many species yet now they pretend to be guardians of the land....a concept totally alien to their stoneage culture. They pretend to be wise with their hilarious and newly invented concept of the "maori world view" which has been creeping into the media for several years. Hahaha maori "world view' pre 1800 was see it, kill it and eat it. Anyone with a brain can see this pro-maori creep is an extremely well organised campaign to rewrite our history. We have teachers at our schools teaching that early settlers kept maori slaves (maori enslaved each other, NOT settlers),  the great myth and lies about maori navigation, the lies about conservation etc. Meanwhile, quietly in the background all library books that were based on evidence and eye witnesses that mention maori cannibalism are removed from our libraries and replaced by lies from the "new historians" who base their work on what they hoped NZ was like, and bizarre lies and half truths (they talk about settlers shooting maori, but omit the fact that it was done because of an unprovoked maori attack earlier). 

Ask yourself, what have we taken from their stoneage barbaric culture? Apart from the stoneage ballet (aka haka) that a few do, absolutely NOTHING!