Post by Kiwi Frontline on Jun 27, 2021 5:43:24 GMT 12
Effi Lincoln: WHY I STOPPED LEARNING TE REO
“These are strange days for Māori and politics, and the growing use of te reo is again a focus. Place names, greetings, familiar phrases: For some New Zealanders these words represent a threat”, said journalist Phillip Matthews disparagingly, in his Stuff article Mind your language: the backlash against the te reo revival (Stuff 11 June 21).
A “threat” in the Merriam-Webster dictionary is defined as “an indication of something impending”.
Are you one of the New Zealanders feeling this threat of something impending?
If so, take heart, you are not alone and you are not a “flat earther”. You have good cause to feel unease. Something big is impending. But to understand this, we need to step back from an immediate focus on te reo. Focusing on this aspect of the threat is like focusing on the fin, rather than the shark.
Older New Zealanders with the wisdom of years, are sensing a “hidden agenda” in New Zealand politics.
Hidden is defined as something obscure, unexplained, undisclosed.
An agenda is defined as an underlying, often ideological plan or program.
You are not wrong. New Zealand, and in fact the entire western world, is threatened by an undisclosed agenda.......
Continue reading this ‘must read’ here > breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2021/06/effi-lincoln-why-i-stopped-learning-te.html
“These are strange days for Māori and politics, and the growing use of te reo is again a focus. Place names, greetings, familiar phrases: For some New Zealanders these words represent a threat”, said journalist Phillip Matthews disparagingly, in his Stuff article Mind your language: the backlash against the te reo revival (Stuff 11 June 21).
A “threat” in the Merriam-Webster dictionary is defined as “an indication of something impending”.
Are you one of the New Zealanders feeling this threat of something impending?
If so, take heart, you are not alone and you are not a “flat earther”. You have good cause to feel unease. Something big is impending. But to understand this, we need to step back from an immediate focus on te reo. Focusing on this aspect of the threat is like focusing on the fin, rather than the shark.
Older New Zealanders with the wisdom of years, are sensing a “hidden agenda” in New Zealand politics.
Hidden is defined as something obscure, unexplained, undisclosed.
An agenda is defined as an underlying, often ideological plan or program.
You are not wrong. New Zealand, and in fact the entire western world, is threatened by an undisclosed agenda.......
Continue reading this ‘must read’ here > breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2021/06/effi-lincoln-why-i-stopped-learning-te.html