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Post by Toasted Cheese on Nov 6, 2020 1:51:06 GMT
I grew up in NZ gamey. I was surrounded by this and while I accepted it for what it was at the time and as a kid the Haka was a fun thing to do, it is not a cultural aspect of the Maori people that I personally feel is worth preserving. The Maori are not even indigenous to NZ, as the aboriginal are to Oz. There were people on the islands called the Moriori prior to the Maori peoples settling, who were Poly ancestry, related to the Maori and so much more peaceful apparently. The Maori decimated them link and also hunted the Moa bird to extinction. Maori Genocide
So they’re like the English then. The Britons were driven out by the Angles and Saxons (and all the other Germanic tribes) who then settled down and became the natives of the land. It is in the manner of taking. It all reflects one another. A relatively peaceful people, were the Britons though?, are overthrown by a belligerent people as in all tribal warfare. The English came and took over NZ and a settlement war began with the Maori. I guess it was karma for the Maori, who are still claiming land ownership rights, yet while they were there before the English, they weren't native to the land.
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