Post by Kiwi Frontline on Apr 21, 2020 4:47:30 GMT 12
UK NURSES' COVID-19 HAKA SLAMMED AS CULTURAL APPROPRIATION
Māori cultural advisor Karaitiana Taiuru says the haka is "absolutely offensive and degrading".
"There is no reasonable excuse why any semi-educated person with access to the internet, from anywhere in the world, to not know that mocking another person's culture is offensive," Taiuru says.
"This is blatant cultural abuse that is verging on being racist.
"There appears to be a fixation with many people in the UK with Māori culture and what appears to be an inherited colonial perceived right to appropriate Māori culture with marketing of food and beverages and more so in particular to mocking the Haka.
It is distasteful and disrespectful to the descendants of Ngāti Toa and to all Māori."
He also suggested it could be a breach of the Haka Ka Mate Attribution Act of 2014 which acknowledges the haka's significance as a taonga of Ngāti Toa Rangatira......
www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2020/04/uk-nurses-covid-19-haka-slammed-as-cultural-appropriation.html
Māori cultural advisor Karaitiana Taiuru says the haka is "absolutely offensive and degrading".
"There is no reasonable excuse why any semi-educated person with access to the internet, from anywhere in the world, to not know that mocking another person's culture is offensive," Taiuru says.
"This is blatant cultural abuse that is verging on being racist.
"There appears to be a fixation with many people in the UK with Māori culture and what appears to be an inherited colonial perceived right to appropriate Māori culture with marketing of food and beverages and more so in particular to mocking the Haka.
It is distasteful and disrespectful to the descendants of Ngāti Toa and to all Māori."
He also suggested it could be a breach of the Haka Ka Mate Attribution Act of 2014 which acknowledges the haka's significance as a taonga of Ngāti Toa Rangatira......
www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2020/04/uk-nurses-covid-19-haka-slammed-as-cultural-appropriation.html