Post by Kiwi Frontline on May 14, 2024 5:59:29 GMT 12
Lindsay Mitchell: TIME FOR SOME PERSPECTIVE.
Yet as an ethnic group Maori take a lot of heat.
Their pockets of failure (which occur across all ethnicities) overshadow their success because it suits certain political aspirants to promote the negative.
The predominant individualist culture wants Maori to get their act together and exercise greater personal responsibility. While the collectivists want the community to take the blame for Maori failure and fix it via redress.
The finger-pointing at colonists as the culprits, which has ramped up immeasurably over recent years, has resulted in a great deal of misdirected anger towards Maori, the bulk of whom just want to get on with their lives.
To boot, this simplistic description ignores that since the early 1800s Maori and non-Maori have become indelibly interlinked by blood and it has become impossible to identify which finger is pointing in which direction, such is the absurdity of modern-day racial politics.).....
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2024/05/lindsay-mitchell-time-for-some.html
Yet as an ethnic group Maori take a lot of heat.
Their pockets of failure (which occur across all ethnicities) overshadow their success because it suits certain political aspirants to promote the negative.
The predominant individualist culture wants Maori to get their act together and exercise greater personal responsibility. While the collectivists want the community to take the blame for Maori failure and fix it via redress.
The finger-pointing at colonists as the culprits, which has ramped up immeasurably over recent years, has resulted in a great deal of misdirected anger towards Maori, the bulk of whom just want to get on with their lives.
To boot, this simplistic description ignores that since the early 1800s Maori and non-Maori have become indelibly interlinked by blood and it has become impossible to identify which finger is pointing in which direction, such is the absurdity of modern-day racial politics.).....
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2024/05/lindsay-mitchell-time-for-some.html