Posted by alexandra_k on March 14, 2020, at 17:06:16
In reply to Re: the development of maori, posted by alexandra_k on March 14, 2020, at 16:58:11
And of course there are many people who happen to be maori -- and it's not their fault. they didn't ask to be born maori anymore than i asked to be born whatever i am and so on and so forth for all the people that there are.
But the cultural thing is something else.
Like the cultural thing of 'New Zealander' where we market / advertise ourselves...
- Flight of the Concords. There is a lot of truth in that show with respet to how we market ourselves. The Kiwi. A flightless bird. Defenceless against predators. Naieve... Simple. Inept, in some way. Incompetence. It is disarming... (But we are child abusers of our very own children behind closed doors).
So the white people market this as the white people way... Ineptitude and feigned ignroance and brownnosing.
And then of course rugby... Warriors... Then the whole ''Once were Warriors'' thing about what life is like for lots of Maori. Father in jail. Abusive homes.
And then of course the whole Eminem style poor white people...
Equity is supposed to be about how the Maori are not achieving flight of the concords style of 'making it'. That's what it is to 'make it' in NZ.
There needs to be ineptitude / incompetence on the world stage.
But flgith of the concords made it big, in NY.
But they lived in the periphery and were friends with Raj the Indian dairy owner. Being taken advantage of (unwittingly) by Austrailians...
Poor us. Poor us. We are harmless...
Harmless...
They didn't show anything of the harm that results from having an incompetent diplomat who doesn't do his job in NY...
In NY...
Or any other country...
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