Posted by alexandra_k on October 21, 2018, at 2:29:19
In reply to Re: Anthony Bourdain, posted by alexandra_k on October 21, 2018, at 2:11:19
Different Maaori tribes are different...
There's some awful Maaori in Auckland (my personal experience of them was that they were awful to me).
There was a real focus in Auckland on Maaori-dom. On this idea of people being on a hierarchy and equality for Maaori or equity for Maaori was when they had comperable positions on the hierarchy as white people.
The idea of the Treaty as being an international thing. So there is no nation of New Zealand. Maaori soverignty. They didn't ask settlers to settle here and we should go away.
Or spend all our time sitting still on the Marae keeping our mouths shut listening to the Maaori elders rant at us in Maaori because...
Well...
In reparation of how he was supposed to sit still and shut up in the classroom when he was a kid, I suppose.
I don't know.
By Maori for Maori. They are clear. I'm not Maori. So...
Where does that leave me?
Sh*t out of luck.
So... It's hard not to be racist in Auckland. Becuase the Auckland Maori I experienced were racist towards me because I'm not Maori. So all I'm allowed to do is parrot back to them exactly what they've said to me. Unthinkingly and without understanding. And... For me to get out / get away because I am not wanted there.
They couldn't be any clearer.
The Waikato Maori weren't like that... From memory. And they didn't much like the Auckland Maori, either. Something something about selling out their own people and...
But I haven't even seen a Marae down here...
I read something about how peoples used to be more diverse...
Like how fruits and vegetables and so on... There used to be far more people and they were more distict from one another...
Anyway...
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