Post by Kiwi Frontline on Dec 12, 2016 7:09:30 GMT 12
WILLIE TREATY TROUGHER JACKSON LATCHES ONTO ANOTHER "SCAM"
Te reo Maori should become compulsory in New Zealand, says Maori broadcaster Willie Jackson.
His comment comes after statistics show the proportion of Maori able to hold an everyday conversation in te reo Maori has decreased over the last 17 years.
Willie says the majority of Pakeha didn't support the language.
We say why should we?.
Willie says, That's why we have to enshrine it in the law. It has to be made compulsory… You know you get all these people who say ‘no you can't make it compulsory because there is not enough teachers, not enough resources'.”
“But the reality is, if you make it compulsory and then the Government prioritises it. Then they find the funding and then they find the resources. They [Government] always do. Once it is law everything changes.”
A Statistics New Zealand reports shows between 1996 and 2013, the proportion of the Maori population able to converse in the language has decreased from 25 per cent to 21.3 per cent. The same report showed the only age group in which te reo speakers had increased was only among those aged 65 and over.
Willie Jackson makes his living from "looking backwards", along with is fellow treaty trougher John Tamihere. Here Willie is telling us the importance of learning the maori language, by the way that was written by white settlers.
Like every thing else it's now up to the other 85% of K1W1 to keep the maori language alive, part maori aren't interested, the figures show it, they are 'not interested!', and no it's not our responsibility, how pathetic is this going to get, a ""pet"" pakeha allocated to speak it for "them".
Te reo Maori is not lost thanks to our European colonial ancestors who recorded it in print. But its usage is now redundant and it's ridiculous to try and resurrect it, more so given that the 15 per cent of New Zealanders with Maori ancestry are self-evidently not interested in learning it. It's not part of 85 per cent of New Zealanders' history and to assert that it should be because in this nation of migrants, the first arrivals were Maori is claptrap. On that basis we should equally insist that all of our women have mokos.
Willie treaty trougher Jackson seems to have a real thing about the maori language, reckons it's his hobby, great to have a hobby, enjoy it, I hear some people whip themselves,or, hang upside down from hooks, what ever you enjoy go for it, just don't push it down everyone else's throat, we have children going to university who can barely read and write lets concentrate on the future, their future, having compulsory te reo at school will take even more productive time out of a school day. It' not up to non-maori to keep their language alive, not up to the waitangi tribunal or Willie to tell us what we should learn at school!.
Te reo Maori should become compulsory in New Zealand, says Maori broadcaster Willie Jackson.
His comment comes after statistics show the proportion of Maori able to hold an everyday conversation in te reo Maori has decreased over the last 17 years.
Willie says the majority of Pakeha didn't support the language.
We say why should we?.
Willie says, That's why we have to enshrine it in the law. It has to be made compulsory… You know you get all these people who say ‘no you can't make it compulsory because there is not enough teachers, not enough resources'.”
“But the reality is, if you make it compulsory and then the Government prioritises it. Then they find the funding and then they find the resources. They [Government] always do. Once it is law everything changes.”
A Statistics New Zealand reports shows between 1996 and 2013, the proportion of the Maori population able to converse in the language has decreased from 25 per cent to 21.3 per cent. The same report showed the only age group in which te reo speakers had increased was only among those aged 65 and over.
Willie Jackson makes his living from "looking backwards", along with is fellow treaty trougher John Tamihere. Here Willie is telling us the importance of learning the maori language, by the way that was written by white settlers.
Like every thing else it's now up to the other 85% of K1W1 to keep the maori language alive, part maori aren't interested, the figures show it, they are 'not interested!', and no it's not our responsibility, how pathetic is this going to get, a ""pet"" pakeha allocated to speak it for "them".
Te reo Maori is not lost thanks to our European colonial ancestors who recorded it in print. But its usage is now redundant and it's ridiculous to try and resurrect it, more so given that the 15 per cent of New Zealanders with Maori ancestry are self-evidently not interested in learning it. It's not part of 85 per cent of New Zealanders' history and to assert that it should be because in this nation of migrants, the first arrivals were Maori is claptrap. On that basis we should equally insist that all of our women have mokos.
Willie treaty trougher Jackson seems to have a real thing about the maori language, reckons it's his hobby, great to have a hobby, enjoy it, I hear some people whip themselves,or, hang upside down from hooks, what ever you enjoy go for it, just don't push it down everyone else's throat, we have children going to university who can barely read and write lets concentrate on the future, their future, having compulsory te reo at school will take even more productive time out of a school day. It' not up to non-maori to keep their language alive, not up to the waitangi tribunal or Willie to tell us what we should learn at school!.