WorldRugby Haka time at the Women’s Rugby World Cup 2017 semi-final
i like how they must have said to the white menbers at some point “yeah becky yall gon do this too get up we all have to learn”
Actually most New Zealanders (white and non white) learn this as children at school and with their friends. Like Kiwi culture’s really a mix of indigenous and non-indigenous elements so there’s not that much cultural segregation as you would have in the states
I’m white as a chicken and mayo sandwich and I learned two or three haka at school. If I’d joined the kapa haka group it would have been more and certainly wouldn’t have been the only white person doing so.
#also if I was the opposite team I would be “WELL WE ARE FUCKED :)”
That is 1000% the point of the Haka. Here’s a really good explanation of it.
I’ve never seen women doing the Haka before and holy shit I’m in love
When I did kapa haka at school, lo these many years ago now (ok about 15), I was taught that it was tikanga in most iwi that women didn’t do the haka (as men don’t do the karanga at pōwhiri). That seems to be changing, which is neat, but it’s very much something that’s up to wahine Māori to change and Pākehā women to follow their lead on, like the varying tikanga on women speaking on the marae.
(but also v agreed that it is incredibly common for Pākehā in NZ to have learned at least some elements of Māori performing arts/kapa haka, if they’re under 40; if a white person in NZ has never done that they’re either an adult immigrant or exclusively attended posh private schools, and even the last might not apply these days. The average non-Māori-speaking NZer understands 80-100 words of te reo. American norms of segregation do not apply.)
There are still some pretty racist towns in New Zealand where they don’t teach any Māori culture even in public schools (mostly rural towns in the South Island). I didn’t learn any Te Reo until I moved to Wellington, and my brother who only just left my old high school had pretty much the same experience.
We’re a lot better than the US, but there’s still more cultural segregation than there should be.
I’m married to someone who grew up in a rural South Island town, so yeah, I know. But ‘rural South Island towns’ only represent about 10% of the NZ population, so this is an exception, not a norm; the experience for the overwhelming majority of Kiwi kids is one where they get at least some exposure to te reo and tikanga Māori as part of the public education system.
(For non-NZers, rural North Island towns are often more Māori than the cities, not less; the majority of the pre-colonisation Māori population lived in the northern half of the North Island.)
That captain looks like a female Dwayne The Rock Johnson and I love her.
My primary school was very big on Maori culture, everybody learned a bit and we also had Maori Club if you wanted to learn more. It was long enough ago that girls Did Not Do The Haka, but one day at practice the boys just weren’t in the mood and were being very low-energy. So our (awesome!) teacher said that we girls should show them how it was meant to be done.
We’d never formally been taught a haka, but of course we’d been there for all the boys’ practice sessions, so we knew it. I swear half of us girls in Maori Club had just been waiting for our chance, and the rest were swept up in the enthusiasm. We roared. We stamped so hard the gym floor vibrated. We got right up in their faces and had them backing away and when we finished there was a breathless pause… and then the teacher just said, “See? Do that.” XD XD XD
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Taika Waititi labelled ‘treasonous’ for saying he isn’t proud of New Zealand
Broadcaster Duncan Garner has called Taika Waititi “treasonous” for speaking his mind on New Zealand’s environmental woes, concerning suicide rate and lack of affordable housing.
Waititi, this year’s New Zealander of the Year and director of the soon-to-be-released Thor: Ragnarok, told Marae he wasn’t proud to be a Kiwi when so many problems appeared to be ignored.
Stuff columnist Duncan Garner delivered a punchy editorial against the director on The AM Show Thursday morning. He called Waititi “treasonous” for voicing his concerns on the nation’s state of affairs.
“He was New Zealander of the year, this year 2017, so he’s an ambassador for New Zealand now … you cannot be this treasonous about your own country. You cannot say you’re not proud to be a New Zealander if you’re the New Zealander of the year,” Garner said.
Waititi said New Zealand’s waterways were “poisoned”.
“I’m not very proud of coming from a place which everyone overseas thinks is this clean, green country,” he said.
Garner argued that the criticism was wrong because he thought only some waterways were “dodgy”, not all of them. “Wrong,” Garner declared. “It’s not all poison. Some of them, some of them are pretty dodgy I agree.”
In the Marae interview, Waititi had listed a string of problems he saw with New Zealand, one of which was the state of our rivers. Garner agreed with all the other issues but still found issue with Waititi calling them out.
“He’s right on many things. Yes, we’ve got issues with our housing and mental health and depression and suicide numbers,” the journalist said. “I get all that.”
“I’ve got a problem with it, because you have to be accurate as
New Zealander of the Year, and I reckon he’s thrown New Zealand under the bus,” the former political editor concluded.
So… is he not allowed to address issues he has with the country? We all have the right to, so why is he getting all up in arms about him, just because he’s ‘New Zealander of the Year’ when he’s exercising his right to speak up about stuff lots of people, especially the tourism industry here, try to sweep under the rug in terms of environmental issues? Of course it’s completely fine for him to say that he isn’t proud of the country due to the state of it, calling out lies and issues and whatnot. Using his position in society to bring more attention to issues isn’t really throwing us under the bus in my opinion because it just shows things we can try work on to better our image so we don’t spout lies when we say stuff like ‘all our waterways are clean’. How in the world is that ‘treasonous’ to state? Shit, Pissy Baby Duncan even agrees with most of what he said, but hates that it was said… doesn’t that mean if Duncan himself said it he would have to slap that label onto himself? He fucking wouldn’t. Duncan Garner, you’re a fucking idiot.
The Thor: Ragnarok director took to Twitter this evening to ‘apologise’ for comments he made in an interview with Marae regarding New Zealand’s waterways, suicide rates and child poverty, among other things.
“I’m sorry NZ!” he tweeted. “I wasn’t thinking and spoke in haste. I forgot to mention domestic violence, sexism, homophobia, and racism. My bad!”
Waititi later followed that up with several more tweets, including one poking fun at the fact that while he also criticised New Zealand’s high rates of teen suicide, depression, child poverty and abuse, it was his description of our waterways as “poisoned” that seemed to have drawn the most ire from Garner.
Me: NZ has highest teen suicide rates, depression, child poverty/abuse, & our waterways are poisoned.
NZ: Don’t hassle our water, traitor! — Taika Waititi (@TaikaWaititi) October 19, 2017
Patriotism shouldn’t be “love it or leave it”. It should be “love it AND FIX IT”.
Taika Waititi labelled ‘treasonous’ for saying he isn’t proud of New Zealand
so a racist got utterly demolished in less than 30 seconds on the New Zealand morning news on Monday and it’s one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever seen
who knew a white guy could be capable of such an iconic response, he knows what’s up and is having none of that shit, every other white guy take notes tbhI love that he said Pakeha
Can someone write what its being said in this?
Male co-host: We have had a whole heap of feedback regarding
Te Tai Tokerau MP Kelvin Davis’s proposal to institute a prison run on Māori
values into New Zealand. He’s looking at potentially establishing this prison
up north. It isn’t Labour policy just yet, it’s just an idea of Kelvin Davis’s.
And this has been really really divisive on our Facebook page this morning. (sarcastically)
Here I think we have the single greatest email, the single greatest message we
have ever had on breakfast.(clears throat deliberately) “’Janice’ says: Good morning. I’m
sick of hearing that Māori need different treatment. If they don’t want to live
in our society, then maybe we should put them all on an island and leave them
to it.”Male co-host: “Janice. That is LITERALLY what happened! That
is the history of our country. Last I checked, Māori WERE on an island, they
were left to it, and then Pākehā (Māori term for white New Zealanders) turned
up and look how that worked out. But thank you very much for that brilliant
insight. Goodness me. Unbelievable. Unbelievable, they actually-“Female co-host: “Actually, you can’t even get angry, you
just actually need to laugh and then screw it up and put it under the desk.
Just when you thought-“Male co-host: (mimicking letter) “’Put them all on an
island, leave them to it.’ Yeah. What a great idea that is Janice.RIP Janice
This is the Sunken Alcove Garden in New Zealand.
Kelston Boys’ High School perform a massive haka in honour of the new Maori carving on campus
THIS IS FUCKING SICK
Ooooh – has flatbear seen this??!?!?!?
I’ve seen it floating around but I hadn’t had a chance to watch it! THAT WAS FUCKING AWESOME!
knitting in the dark 