Post by Kiwi Frontline on Apr 23, 2020 3:01:41 GMT 12
'AN EXAMPLE OF SELF-ENTITLEMENT': ANOTHER GROUP OF UK HEALTH WORKERS PERFORM 'BIZARRE' CORONAVIRUS HAKA
Māori cultural experts have blasted a team of radiographers as self-entitled and ignorant after they emerged as the second group of frontline health staff in the UK to have appropriated the haka in a matter of days.
Māori advocate and cultural advisor Karaitiana Taiuru says while the latest haka isn't "blatant mockery" like that seen in the Tavistock video, it's "still bizarre".
"It's an example of self-entitlement that because something is not legally owned in a western sense, that it is free to appropriate," he told Newshub.
Tania Ka'ai, a Māori language educator at the Auckland University of Technology, described the video as "truly disturbing" and said it speaks to a common misunderstanding of the cultural significance behind the haka.
"Haka are not about being simply angry at the world," she explained. "They are a fierce display of a tribe's pride, strength and unity.
"This is an example of the dominant Western culture trivialising an aspect of Māori culture and abusing our language which has struggled to survive since the signing of Te Tiriti o Waitangi in 1840......
www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2020/04/an-example-of-self-entitlement-another-group-of-uk-health-workers-perform-bizarre-coronavirus-haka.html
Māori cultural experts have blasted a team of radiographers as self-entitled and ignorant after they emerged as the second group of frontline health staff in the UK to have appropriated the haka in a matter of days.
Māori advocate and cultural advisor Karaitiana Taiuru says while the latest haka isn't "blatant mockery" like that seen in the Tavistock video, it's "still bizarre".
"It's an example of self-entitlement that because something is not legally owned in a western sense, that it is free to appropriate," he told Newshub.
Tania Ka'ai, a Māori language educator at the Auckland University of Technology, described the video as "truly disturbing" and said it speaks to a common misunderstanding of the cultural significance behind the haka.
"Haka are not about being simply angry at the world," she explained. "They are a fierce display of a tribe's pride, strength and unity.
"This is an example of the dominant Western culture trivialising an aspect of Māori culture and abusing our language which has struggled to survive since the signing of Te Tiriti o Waitangi in 1840......
www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2020/04/an-example-of-self-entitlement-another-group-of-uk-health-workers-perform-bizarre-coronavirus-haka.html