Post by Kiwi Frontline on Mar 8, 2021 2:13:30 GMT 12
MAORI: "...GENTLE, KIND AND INVOLVED FATHERS" – by Lindsay Mitchell
Inevitably the narrative moves on to how Maori child-rearing practises were so much better in pre-European times. Duff lifts this 1840 quote from a writer called Polack:
“The father was devotedly fond of his children and they were his pride and delight”, wrote Polack, a Jew and a trader for some years.
I went to the source and found that the immediately preceding sentence reads, "Child prisoners were greatly prized and lived with the whanau but they remained slaves for life." That part of the quote was naturally excluded. The practise of slavery - so abhorred internationally today - was ended by colonisation.
Stuff's obsession with selectively re-educating the audience is utterly patronising.
lindsaymitchell.blogspot.com/2021/03/maori-gentle-kind-and-involved-fathers.html
Inevitably the narrative moves on to how Maori child-rearing practises were so much better in pre-European times. Duff lifts this 1840 quote from a writer called Polack:
“The father was devotedly fond of his children and they were his pride and delight”, wrote Polack, a Jew and a trader for some years.
I went to the source and found that the immediately preceding sentence reads, "Child prisoners were greatly prized and lived with the whanau but they remained slaves for life." That part of the quote was naturally excluded. The practise of slavery - so abhorred internationally today - was ended by colonisation.
Stuff's obsession with selectively re-educating the audience is utterly patronising.
lindsaymitchell.blogspot.com/2021/03/maori-gentle-kind-and-involved-fathers.html