In
contrast, Maori art historian Jonathan Mane-Wheoki described Pākehā as
"...the people who define themselves by what they are not. Who want to
forget their origins, their history, their cultural inheritance — who
want Māori, likewise, to deny their origins so that we can all start off
afresh."[21]
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Seann Paurini Where's his evidence. His quote is quite good - I'd more apply that to 'New Zealanders' [as in 'pakeha' and 'maori' in general].Unlike · Reply · 1 · about an hour ago
Wells Tao and I think that that also has to find a way to be respected, as there is plenty to want to escape from, in terms of prejudices that have run their course.
Alan Francais Stuart JMK is back at Te Papa now. That statement serves as an ante-chamber to ' Pakeha would like to think that bi-culturalism is something they can bestow upon Maori' Except he can't quite bring himself to utter it.
Wells Tao Probably true though, it is this thing that I have thought was a step in the right direction, and in a direction where i had no further journey to make, being here llready... where are for some Maori they had well to put it simply none of this is right: http://www.waitangi-tribunal.govt.nz/treaty/meaning.asp
www.waitangi-tribunal.govt.nz
The information given below is intended as a general guide only, and should not ...See More- Wells Tao There were two treaties. Te Tiriti o Waitangi, the one copied in to 9, covered a lot of the country and collected 500 signatures, and then there was The Treaty of Waitangi, went two places, collected 39 signatoriesees
Alan Francais Stuart Aye. But historical guilt weighs heavily and the Pakeha middle class would still like to 'give' it back. It's not their culture they don't understand as much as historical necessity.- Wells Tao Te Tiriti o Waitangi ceded Kawanatanga/ Governorship only as recognized and undisputed Chiefs of lands they undisputedly owned.
- Wells Tao Well let's not diminish the effort that those same crippled Pakeha, were also New Heros, facing the pain of every mornings day light, and the smell of death, of their forebrothers, and fathers, lost to world war secret bank business. To create the opposite of permanent war, the transformation of opposition into coincidance,
- Wells Tao For me the Professor does describe a significant portion of the population, I hestantly take a stab at, a third. The other proportions for example, in terms of cultural inheritance, there is total continuance of wealth practices that despite being ignored or played down, to say "forget" is misleading.
Wells Tao co·in·ci·dence (k-ns-dns, -dns)
n.
1. The state or fact of occupying the same relative position or area in space.
Matthew Brenycz Sounds great to me. Culture is just another set of arbitrary normative boundaries, like race or gender. It's confining, imposed (if not by oppressor cultures sculpting marginalized identities out of the people they conquer, then at least by parents attempting to own and live through their children) and ultimately an affront to both individual authenticity and common empathy. No gods, no idols, no masters.
Matthew Brenycz Says the straight guy who didn't grow up queer in the American midwest with religious relatives.
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