Post by Kiwi Frontline on Oct 28, 2019 4:46:57 GMT 12
MAORI NEVER LOST THEIR CULTURE
D J S writes > I keep hearing the lie that Maori lost their culture. Stolen by the white man and forced to integrate.
Lets shine some honesty on this topic.
Maori never lost their culture. Thats a lie. Maori gained a culture! Maori BEGGED the British to take sovereignty and why wouldnt they? Massive technology gains, medicines they could never have dreamed of being able to use, warm blankets, clothing, better food, and housing. And end to slavery and eventually an end to warring. The benefits to maori were huge.
Maori wanted what the white man had and sold their land to be able to buy in to the white culture. Maori chiefs asked that their children not be taught Te Reo at schools so that they may learn the ways and the tongue of the white man. They wanted the white mans culture. It was far better than the warring, slavery and cannibalism they were living. Maori wanted the law and order and the democracy the white man brought with them.
At the Kohimaramara conference of the Chiefs in 1860 the Chiefs openly thanked the British for their governance and protection.
Does anyone really think any Maori alive today would give up their current culture to return to the pre European culture that Maori separatists say they lost?
Do you seriously think cannibalism tribalism, warring, infanticide, and the other harsh conditions Maori were living under pre European are something that any Maori alive today aspires to return to? Because that is the culture that the Maori separatists and their alt left sympathizers say they lost!
D J S writes > I keep hearing the lie that Maori lost their culture. Stolen by the white man and forced to integrate.
Lets shine some honesty on this topic.
Maori never lost their culture. Thats a lie. Maori gained a culture! Maori BEGGED the British to take sovereignty and why wouldnt they? Massive technology gains, medicines they could never have dreamed of being able to use, warm blankets, clothing, better food, and housing. And end to slavery and eventually an end to warring. The benefits to maori were huge.
Maori wanted what the white man had and sold their land to be able to buy in to the white culture. Maori chiefs asked that their children not be taught Te Reo at schools so that they may learn the ways and the tongue of the white man. They wanted the white mans culture. It was far better than the warring, slavery and cannibalism they were living. Maori wanted the law and order and the democracy the white man brought with them.
At the Kohimaramara conference of the Chiefs in 1860 the Chiefs openly thanked the British for their governance and protection.
Does anyone really think any Maori alive today would give up their current culture to return to the pre European culture that Maori separatists say they lost?
Do you seriously think cannibalism tribalism, warring, infanticide, and the other harsh conditions Maori were living under pre European are something that any Maori alive today aspires to return to? Because that is the culture that the Maori separatists and their alt left sympathizers say they lost!