Post by Kiwi Frontline on Feb 1, 2016 5:51:49 GMT 12
Bay of Plenty Times 1/2/16
ROHE CUSTOM RAISES QUESTIONS
I see in the news ( Local News, January 29) that Maori say there is “cultural sensitivity around human waste in their rohe (tribal area)”.
Since, according to Treaty claims, all of New Zealand was in a rohe belonging to one iwi or another and out as far as the 200-mile limit offshore, it does raise some interesting logistical questions about how and where bodily functions were managed.
M G
Omokoroa
EUROPEAN MODEL
Tommy Wilson’s letter (January 29) gave me cause to smile when he stated that European indigenous c ulture was cultureless and colour-free.
Europeans no longer feel the need to daub themselves with woad, wave claymores and spears, and make threatening gestures to visitors.
Millions of tourists visit Europe every year to take in this so-called colourless culture, and hundreds of thousands risk their lives to try to enter illegally to live the culture and partake of its benefits.
Everyone, Tommy Wilson included, is living a culture based on the European model here in New Zealand. The alternative does not bear thinking about. (Abridged.)
G F
Tauranga
ROHE CUSTOM RAISES QUESTIONS
I see in the news ( Local News, January 29) that Maori say there is “cultural sensitivity around human waste in their rohe (tribal area)”.
Since, according to Treaty claims, all of New Zealand was in a rohe belonging to one iwi or another and out as far as the 200-mile limit offshore, it does raise some interesting logistical questions about how and where bodily functions were managed.
M G
Omokoroa
EUROPEAN MODEL
Tommy Wilson’s letter (January 29) gave me cause to smile when he stated that European indigenous c ulture was cultureless and colour-free.
Europeans no longer feel the need to daub themselves with woad, wave claymores and spears, and make threatening gestures to visitors.
Millions of tourists visit Europe every year to take in this so-called colourless culture, and hundreds of thousands risk their lives to try to enter illegally to live the culture and partake of its benefits.
Everyone, Tommy Wilson included, is living a culture based on the European model here in New Zealand. The alternative does not bear thinking about. (Abridged.)
G F
Tauranga