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Post by gameboy on Nov 6, 2020 3:35:30 GMT
It's one of the ugliest displays of aggression I've seen from any culture on earth. Why am I not surprised the British conquered the ignorant Maori? 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
Yikes!!!
I almost forgot you are a New Zealander.
I'd be curious to know what happened to the eunuchs and how they were integrated into Moriori society. Was there a "third sex"?
As for that haka nonsense, I'm sure it's been hyped for all its cheesy arrogance by Western media. Seriously though, thank god for the British Empire.
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