Why do I keep hammering this issue?
Because the cost and the lies and deceit embedded in all this will come back to haunt this nation of ours - and we need at least some honest analysis of what is being done to us.
Teach Maori language by all means - but inserting a language that most people are not interested in learning - into the primary and necessary language - just causes widespread resentment.
English is globally important - and absolutely essential - and in New Zealand it is being abused and contaminated and disrespected by our sub-par establishment.
Teach Maori language by all means - but inserting a language that most people are not interested in learning - into the primary and necessary language - just causes widespread resentment.
English is globally important - and absolutely essential - and in New Zealand it is being abused and contaminated and disrespected by our sub-par establishment.
Like it or not - what we are experiencing really is an unprecedented cultural and language modification and indoctrination program - and the civilised world has already seen where that kind of nonsense can end up - and that ruthless indoctrination and subversion of reality is supported at the highest levels of New Zealand’s Government, Media and Academia.
I don’t expect much else from Government and their paid off Media - but I had hoped that Academia might be able to rise to the challenge of actual truth.
But nope! Not even close. Academia are donkey deep in the subversion of what they like to call in derogatory tones - “The Dominant Culture.”
Hey dummies - it’s the Dominant Culture because it provides idiots like you with a job - and for the needs of all. Work it out. The other culture provides nothing to the majority culture - it just takes from it.
New Zealand is way more than just Maori culture.
Okay - so to do this we need to go back to the real beginnings of this process. What would Maori culture and Language have been when Europeans first arrived on the shores of New Zealand - bringing with them the Civilisation?
Maori Language was a very unsophisticated - seven hundred word - stone age language with no way of writing or storing knowledge beyond that which was passed down verbally. Oral History - like it or not - would in any culture - be modified by misinterpretation - deliberate and otherwise - through the Generations - but our modern ideologically driven Academia would be too screwed up politically and intellectually to recognize that.
There it was - the first major event (other than volcano eruptions) in more than 500 years.
The arrival of Civilisation on the shores of an isolated land mass inhabited by disparate and warring tribes - that hadn’t even come close to any suggestion of Central Governance. Then suddenly - all kinds of civilized stuff arriving with these Europeans - would have been a surprise all right - for both the Explorers and the Natives.
Maori culture as the Europeans found it - was cannibalistic - engaged in constant tribal Wars - and communicated in a stone age language with about seven hundred words - because that’s all they needed in their simple and unsophisticated world. As long as people from civilisation stayed away from that society - there was no way that the Maori people or their culture and language could evolve.
Just accept the reality: It is fundamental! There has to be a TRIGGER - to induce or bring about any kind of social or cultural evolution in a primitive society - and that is just a plain and unarguable reality.
Choke on it mister Professor - tap your pen on your desk and sigh - - but that - IS - the reality. In their savage stone age cultural environment - the Maori lived a very savage and primitive existence - and in that state of being and in those times no possible TRIGGER to induce further evolution existed.
It had to come from Europe!
Yeah - I know - it's confusing - but nonetheless less TRUE.
As it is - any logic would tell us loud and clear - that Maori Culture has as of 200 years ago - been triggered - and that and the language has been entirely changed since the arrival of European culture and language - by an unstoppable evolutionary process that was entirely driven by that interface with the Great Global European Culture.
Yeah I know - that sticks in your craw - but again -TRUE.
I call it ‘Great” and “Global” and “European” because it clearly was all three of those things. I have written it down there like that to HELP - the silly people in the universities and in the media and government - who need to get their fuzzy thinking around the fact of it.
I don’t expect much else from Government and their paid off Media - but I had hoped that Academia might be able to rise to the challenge of actual truth.
But nope! Not even close. Academia are donkey deep in the subversion of what they like to call in derogatory tones - “The Dominant Culture.”
Hey dummies - it’s the Dominant Culture because it provides idiots like you with a job - and for the needs of all. Work it out. The other culture provides nothing to the majority culture - it just takes from it.
New Zealand is way more than just Maori culture.
Okay - so to do this we need to go back to the real beginnings of this process. What would Maori culture and Language have been when Europeans first arrived on the shores of New Zealand - bringing with them the Civilisation?
Maori Language was a very unsophisticated - seven hundred word - stone age language with no way of writing or storing knowledge beyond that which was passed down verbally. Oral History - like it or not - would in any culture - be modified by misinterpretation - deliberate and otherwise - through the Generations - but our modern ideologically driven Academia would be too screwed up politically and intellectually to recognize that.
There it was - the first major event (other than volcano eruptions) in more than 500 years.
The arrival of Civilisation on the shores of an isolated land mass inhabited by disparate and warring tribes - that hadn’t even come close to any suggestion of Central Governance. Then suddenly - all kinds of civilized stuff arriving with these Europeans - would have been a surprise all right - for both the Explorers and the Natives.
Maori culture as the Europeans found it - was cannibalistic - engaged in constant tribal Wars - and communicated in a stone age language with about seven hundred words - because that’s all they needed in their simple and unsophisticated world. As long as people from civilisation stayed away from that society - there was no way that the Maori people or their culture and language could evolve.
Just accept the reality: It is fundamental! There has to be a TRIGGER - to induce or bring about any kind of social or cultural evolution in a primitive society - and that is just a plain and unarguable reality.
Choke on it mister Professor - tap your pen on your desk and sigh - - but that - IS - the reality. In their savage stone age cultural environment - the Maori lived a very savage and primitive existence - and in that state of being and in those times no possible TRIGGER to induce further evolution existed.
It had to come from Europe!
Yeah - I know - it's confusing - but nonetheless less TRUE.
As it is - any logic would tell us loud and clear - that Maori Culture has as of 200 years ago - been triggered - and that and the language has been entirely changed since the arrival of European culture and language - by an unstoppable evolutionary process that was entirely driven by that interface with the Great Global European Culture.
Yeah I know - that sticks in your craw - but again -TRUE.
I call it ‘Great” and “Global” and “European” because it clearly was all three of those things. I have written it down there like that to HELP - the silly people in the universities and in the media and government - who need to get their fuzzy thinking around the fact of it.
See if we can find some clever-dick academic to refute that. One culture was at least 10,000 ahead of the other at the time of that interface.
Maori culture as it is today - up to and including all the activism - is ENTIRELY - and ABSOLUTELY - the product of the evolution it has experienced in the last 200 years - through its total immersion in European Culture.
Their “Maori” culture today - is in fact - 90% (maybe 95%) European - and relies on European culture to sustain it. They all speak English - learned at their mother’s knee.
ENGLISH - is their mother tongue.
Why can’t Academia and Government and the idiot Media accept that reality and make a positive of it?
The EUROPEAN Civilisation as it was in centuries past - that evolved into the Global Civilisation we have today - was centred in Europe - because the other great civilisations of China and India had stalled for lack of some basic triggers - and those triggers were the fact that the Europeans “discovered” electricity and storage and distribution of useable electric energy. (Imagine what THAT little bit of knowledge did in laboratories.)
What’s the primary difference between the Iron Age and the Modern Age?
Yeah - that’s right! ELECTRICITY!
Sigh - Yeah I know - they didn't 'create' electricity - it was always there - but they 'discovered' it - and figured out how to use it.
Change the subject a bit Denis - you're getting grumpy.
Around that time - 300 years ago - those Europeans set off to explore the world in little 120 ton wooden ships that were at most 35 meters long - and they relied on the wind to blow them along.
Imagine relying on the wind to blow you - on something smaller than many of today’s houses - around Cape Horn - or Cape of Good Hope - heading for a place you didn't even know was there.
They had some balls alright!
They carried live sheep with them for fresh food - and they worried about scurvy from lack of Veges. Not much of a world cruise for the sheep though.
These are indisputable facts of History:- People like Christopher Columbus 1492 - followed by Ferdinand Magellan 1519 - to the East Indies - and then Abel Tasman discovers and gives names to Tasmania and New Zealand 1642 - to be followed by James Cook 1770 who made the first map of the country - followed three years later by Frenchman Marion du Fresne - and in the cases of Tasman Cook and du Fresne - all had crew killed cooked and eaten by Maori - and in duFresne’s case - they killed and ate himself and 25 of his crew up there in the Bay of Islands. His remaining crew - (he had three small ships,) were so appalled that they came ashore with muskets and slaughtered 250 Maori in retaliation.
But as far as I can see - much of that has been expunged by our so called “Historians” (Academics) from our real History.
And as an indictment of academics and their lack of integrity there is this: - They know that our actual history has been and is being CHANGED - and have allowed it to happen unimpeded.
Academic integrity? I don’t think so.
Have a look at the government history websites - the History is being expunged as we speak - BY ACADEMICS!
How do these apparently educated people rationalise THAT TRAVESTY?
The common denominator with all those global Explorers - was that they were all European - and came out of the Great European Civilisation that was set to dominate the future world - and that simply because it was so far in advance of all the other main cultures. (Not all by conquest - because they sure didn’t conquer China. They infested it a bit - but never conquered it - and the basis of the modern Chinese Civilisation we see today - evolved directly out of the Global European Civilisation.
Just did! Oh yes - you don’t believe me? Well - get on Google and ask for images of modern China - and you will see for yourself. Start with a street corner in Shanghai why don’t you. Skyscrapers - TVs - computers - fancy cars - European dress - and lots and lots of Stuff - and bicycles. (Bikes invented in Germany and developed in England.)
Okay - so in the early eighteen hundreds European Civilisation arrives in the New Zealand version of Polynesia - and we have the inevitable clash between one of the most primitive cultures on the planet - and the most advanced.
What do we think was going to happen?
Well one of the first things that would have happened is that Maori would realise that these newcomers had superior technology and beating them off was not an option. They would also be looking at all the amazing ‘Stuff’ - that could make their lives easier - and they would have begun making up names for all these things that the Europeans had - and most of those new names would be alliterations.
We can start with names for blankets to keep them warm - then sharpen-able blades made of metal - followed by receptacles like ceramic and pottery and metal pots and plates and containers that could contain and store and keep your food free of contamination. Then there’s stuff made of fabric - like cotton and wool clothing and blankets - and sails - and uniformly strong rope of different sizes - from household string to hawsers.
Then there’s all the household tools - that all need Maori or semi-Maori names - and there are metal tools for every chore or process - and many of the process’ also needed Maori or semi-Maori names - and what about the whole book and reading and writing culture - and understanding the fact that books could store knowledge and be read in the absence of the writer. So some bloke who wrote a book could be on the other side of the planet and still tell you stuff - and all you had to do was learn to read.
Then there’s the appliances for fishing and digging holes and sawing wood - and a plethora of tools for woodwork and carving - - and they had been carving with stone tools - so what is not to like. Imagine the amount of work trying to keep a useful edge on a piece of greenstone when you are carving something from wood.
Gimme one of those steel chisels - and what shall we call that?
Maori weren’t stupid - they were never going to turn away from all that.
And what about the furniture? ….. Did they have furniture?
Then there’s all the domestic animals - and the recognition that they were used not only as beasts of burden - but as a source of meat and sustenance as well. That meant that eating the dead humans was no longer a necessity - and then there’s the full range of domestic vegetables - all needing Maori names.
Many of these new words will have just come out of mispronunciation - and difficulty that early Maori would have had getting their spoken language around thousands of English words that had some sounds that I understand don’t exist in Maori language.
It just goes on and on. The lifestyle of Maori by 1840 (Like after ONE generation) bore no resemblance to what it was when they killed and ate du Fresne and his crew. It really was a different world to today as well - and the Maori language would have been modifying itself and evolving really fast with zero input from politicized and disingenuous ideology driven Academics - who these days see the continuation of that process of making new Maori words as an industry - and a government funded gravy train.
All this means that we have to realise that Maori language had lost its authenticity within a couple of decades of the arrival of Europeans.
Not because Europeans stopped them speaking it - but because it was inadequate to express the needs of a society that was rapidly becoming so completely different to the one they had been living in.
Now THAT - is because language is a tool - a vital tool - because it enables communication between humans - and currently in New Zealand - and for the last 200 years - we use English for that - Maori people and European people alike.
Maori children born in those early days of colonisation had a number of advantages over their parents - and among them were sharpen-able tools such as knives and axes that made that early primitive - but post European life - so much easier - - and the children would be the primary source of a whole range of new words that was expanded every day.
Imagine being able to chop wood for the fire with a hatchet - instead of struggling to chop it down and then chop it up with a stone adze.
(Yeah - that made me smile too. We don’t see sentences like that one every day.)
The Europeans also had fabric - and that meant blankets were the new and desirable thing to barter for and own. The blankets to be quickly followed by clothes - and all of them had English names as well.
But there would have been no “official” - or regulated learning initiatives or institutions to teach the English language to Maori - so it would have happened by osmosis and exposure.
Same with teaching Maori language to the English. The ones who learned it would have done so from necessity - because perhaps they wanted to trade with Maori - and what would be the main things they were after?
Land - and women.
What would Maori want?
Knives and fishhooks and axes and guns and blankets and clothes - because they were suffering from the cold. It’s in the History - read about it before the Academics try to tell you there were Maori clothing shops in downtown Ruatoria.
But they could never catch up overnight - and in some respects their parents could see that a new world was upon them - and that it had a lot of advantages - and when the first Maori kids went to school - their parents - like parents of today - would not have sent them to school if they didn’t see the value of learning - so they told the little buggers to make sure they learned stuff - and like it or not - that had to begin with language - and English was the language that came with all the new stuff.
Yes - I know - some would not have shared in all that to begin with - but eventually the state decided that all kids - white and brown - had to be in school.
There were plenty of uneducated white kids around in those days too - and adults who didn’t know how to read - but that is not allowed to happen now - to either brown or white kids.
English was the Global language back then - and it still is - and even with an encyclopaedic knowledge of Maori Language - if you have no English you are stuffed.
Then we have to ask ourselves about the veracity of the idea that teaching Maori Language to the entire population of modern New Zealand - starting at the primers. Is it a worthwhile thing to do?
So - Maori Language! What will they use it for? Will it increase productivity? Will it make life easier? Everyone will need English to participate in the Global culture - so? What about movies and TV Programs from overseas. They all gonna have Maori and English subtitles?
And what about all the immigrants struggling to learn English at school and in the society - so they can just get by in the new society they have moved to? Are they going to have to learn Maori too - in the schools - and what reaction will we expect from them when they realise that most Maori can’t speak Maori themselves - and that they are being conscripted into a gross and unprecedented social experiment involving the entire population?
Will they be resentful that theirs and their children’s time at school was used up teaching them a language that has no practical use? Those immigrant kids will be trying to learn THREE languages:- Their mother tongue at their mother’s knee - as well as English that they know they really do need - and some strange ceremonial language that needs constant new words made up for it - - - THAT THEY DON’T NEED AND WILL NEVER USE.
Will there be Maori kids in this projected modern environment who have no English?
So sorry - but all of this essay has been politically incorrect - but here comes the most politically incorrect bit:
From what I can see on the internet - because I looked - about a year ago the stats said there were apparently only 5000 ‘people’ in New Zealand fluent enough in Maori to conduct a conversation exclusively in Maori. Those same stats now - two years later - say there are 50,000 ‘Maori’ - “fluent” in Maori - or (they say) one in five in the Maori population.
If you do the sums - that official figure - (one in five) SUGGESTS - that there are only 250,000 Maori in New Zealand - but the stats clearly say (just ask Google) there are 875,300 Maori in New Zealand. If any of this is to be believed - that means that only one in 17 can speak Maori.
What we can deduce from that - is the plain fact that none of the stats can be believed - and that will go for all the eye watering millions and billions of dollars being “invested” by government in all things Maori - by the Maori focused and oriented Labour/Green/Maori Government - and that has to include the expenditure being used to give Maori control of the Water Services and the Health Services - all well in train as we sit here doing nothing - not to mention the vast sums being spent on propagating Maori language.
So - one more even more politically incorrect thing to say about this:- The general conception seems to be - that Maori kids in school are low achievers because of cultural issues - and I believe that would be because their parents are less rigorous than others about making sure their kids are properly educated - and THAT - I believe - is because government and Media have helped build up a dangerous level of cultural resentment about the European culture and language that they all - every single one of them - live in.
So as an aside to that travesty - how are those Maori kids doing with Maori Language? Are they excelling - and does that show at exam time?
Let’s see the stats please.
If Government and Media are to be believed - those Maori kids should be getting Maori language at home - giving them an advantage over all non-Maori kids in schools - some of whom are struggling to be not just bi-lingual - but as I said earlier – TRI-LINGUAL?
Note in the picture - the made up Maori words - alliterations - and the only ones that could have existed before European came - are "Student" and "Teacher".
Maori culture as it is today - up to and including all the activism - is ENTIRELY - and ABSOLUTELY - the product of the evolution it has experienced in the last 200 years - through its total immersion in European Culture.
Their “Maori” culture today - is in fact - 90% (maybe 95%) European - and relies on European culture to sustain it. They all speak English - learned at their mother’s knee.
ENGLISH - is their mother tongue.
Why can’t Academia and Government and the idiot Media accept that reality and make a positive of it?
The EUROPEAN Civilisation as it was in centuries past - that evolved into the Global Civilisation we have today - was centred in Europe - because the other great civilisations of China and India had stalled for lack of some basic triggers - and those triggers were the fact that the Europeans “discovered” electricity and storage and distribution of useable electric energy. (Imagine what THAT little bit of knowledge did in laboratories.)
What’s the primary difference between the Iron Age and the Modern Age?
Yeah - that’s right! ELECTRICITY!
Sigh - Yeah I know - they didn't 'create' electricity - it was always there - but they 'discovered' it - and figured out how to use it.
Change the subject a bit Denis - you're getting grumpy.
Around that time - 300 years ago - those Europeans set off to explore the world in little 120 ton wooden ships that were at most 35 meters long - and they relied on the wind to blow them along.
Imagine relying on the wind to blow you - on something smaller than many of today’s houses - around Cape Horn - or Cape of Good Hope - heading for a place you didn't even know was there.
They had some balls alright!
They carried live sheep with them for fresh food - and they worried about scurvy from lack of Veges. Not much of a world cruise for the sheep though.
These are indisputable facts of History:- People like Christopher Columbus 1492 - followed by Ferdinand Magellan 1519 - to the East Indies - and then Abel Tasman discovers and gives names to Tasmania and New Zealand 1642 - to be followed by James Cook 1770 who made the first map of the country - followed three years later by Frenchman Marion du Fresne - and in the cases of Tasman Cook and du Fresne - all had crew killed cooked and eaten by Maori - and in duFresne’s case - they killed and ate himself and 25 of his crew up there in the Bay of Islands. His remaining crew - (he had three small ships,) were so appalled that they came ashore with muskets and slaughtered 250 Maori in retaliation.
But as far as I can see - much of that has been expunged by our so called “Historians” (Academics) from our real History.
And as an indictment of academics and their lack of integrity there is this: - They know that our actual history has been and is being CHANGED - and have allowed it to happen unimpeded.
Academic integrity? I don’t think so.
Have a look at the government history websites - the History is being expunged as we speak - BY ACADEMICS!
How do these apparently educated people rationalise THAT TRAVESTY?
The common denominator with all those global Explorers - was that they were all European - and came out of the Great European Civilisation that was set to dominate the future world - and that simply because it was so far in advance of all the other main cultures. (Not all by conquest - because they sure didn’t conquer China. They infested it a bit - but never conquered it - and the basis of the modern Chinese Civilisation we see today - evolved directly out of the Global European Civilisation.
Just did! Oh yes - you don’t believe me? Well - get on Google and ask for images of modern China - and you will see for yourself. Start with a street corner in Shanghai why don’t you. Skyscrapers - TVs - computers - fancy cars - European dress - and lots and lots of Stuff - and bicycles. (Bikes invented in Germany and developed in England.)
Okay - so in the early eighteen hundreds European Civilisation arrives in the New Zealand version of Polynesia - and we have the inevitable clash between one of the most primitive cultures on the planet - and the most advanced.
What do we think was going to happen?
Well one of the first things that would have happened is that Maori would realise that these newcomers had superior technology and beating them off was not an option. They would also be looking at all the amazing ‘Stuff’ - that could make their lives easier - and they would have begun making up names for all these things that the Europeans had - and most of those new names would be alliterations.
We can start with names for blankets to keep them warm - then sharpen-able blades made of metal - followed by receptacles like ceramic and pottery and metal pots and plates and containers that could contain and store and keep your food free of contamination. Then there’s stuff made of fabric - like cotton and wool clothing and blankets - and sails - and uniformly strong rope of different sizes - from household string to hawsers.
Then there’s all the household tools - that all need Maori or semi-Maori names - and there are metal tools for every chore or process - and many of the process’ also needed Maori or semi-Maori names - and what about the whole book and reading and writing culture - and understanding the fact that books could store knowledge and be read in the absence of the writer. So some bloke who wrote a book could be on the other side of the planet and still tell you stuff - and all you had to do was learn to read.
Then there’s the appliances for fishing and digging holes and sawing wood - and a plethora of tools for woodwork and carving - - and they had been carving with stone tools - so what is not to like. Imagine the amount of work trying to keep a useful edge on a piece of greenstone when you are carving something from wood.
Gimme one of those steel chisels - and what shall we call that?
Maori weren’t stupid - they were never going to turn away from all that.
And what about the furniture? ….. Did they have furniture?
Then there’s all the domestic animals - and the recognition that they were used not only as beasts of burden - but as a source of meat and sustenance as well. That meant that eating the dead humans was no longer a necessity - and then there’s the full range of domestic vegetables - all needing Maori names.
Many of these new words will have just come out of mispronunciation - and difficulty that early Maori would have had getting their spoken language around thousands of English words that had some sounds that I understand don’t exist in Maori language.
It just goes on and on. The lifestyle of Maori by 1840 (Like after ONE generation) bore no resemblance to what it was when they killed and ate du Fresne and his crew. It really was a different world to today as well - and the Maori language would have been modifying itself and evolving really fast with zero input from politicized and disingenuous ideology driven Academics - who these days see the continuation of that process of making new Maori words as an industry - and a government funded gravy train.
All this means that we have to realise that Maori language had lost its authenticity within a couple of decades of the arrival of Europeans.
Not because Europeans stopped them speaking it - but because it was inadequate to express the needs of a society that was rapidly becoming so completely different to the one they had been living in.
Now THAT - is because language is a tool - a vital tool - because it enables communication between humans - and currently in New Zealand - and for the last 200 years - we use English for that - Maori people and European people alike.
Maori children born in those early days of colonisation had a number of advantages over their parents - and among them were sharpen-able tools such as knives and axes that made that early primitive - but post European life - so much easier - - and the children would be the primary source of a whole range of new words that was expanded every day.
Imagine being able to chop wood for the fire with a hatchet - instead of struggling to chop it down and then chop it up with a stone adze.
(Yeah - that made me smile too. We don’t see sentences like that one every day.)
The Europeans also had fabric - and that meant blankets were the new and desirable thing to barter for and own. The blankets to be quickly followed by clothes - and all of them had English names as well.
But there would have been no “official” - or regulated learning initiatives or institutions to teach the English language to Maori - so it would have happened by osmosis and exposure.
Same with teaching Maori language to the English. The ones who learned it would have done so from necessity - because perhaps they wanted to trade with Maori - and what would be the main things they were after?
Land - and women.
What would Maori want?
Knives and fishhooks and axes and guns and blankets and clothes - because they were suffering from the cold. It’s in the History - read about it before the Academics try to tell you there were Maori clothing shops in downtown Ruatoria.
But they could never catch up overnight - and in some respects their parents could see that a new world was upon them - and that it had a lot of advantages - and when the first Maori kids went to school - their parents - like parents of today - would not have sent them to school if they didn’t see the value of learning - so they told the little buggers to make sure they learned stuff - and like it or not - that had to begin with language - and English was the language that came with all the new stuff.
Yes - I know - some would not have shared in all that to begin with - but eventually the state decided that all kids - white and brown - had to be in school.
There were plenty of uneducated white kids around in those days too - and adults who didn’t know how to read - but that is not allowed to happen now - to either brown or white kids.
English was the Global language back then - and it still is - and even with an encyclopaedic knowledge of Maori Language - if you have no English you are stuffed.
Then we have to ask ourselves about the veracity of the idea that teaching Maori Language to the entire population of modern New Zealand - starting at the primers. Is it a worthwhile thing to do?
So - Maori Language! What will they use it for? Will it increase productivity? Will it make life easier? Everyone will need English to participate in the Global culture - so? What about movies and TV Programs from overseas. They all gonna have Maori and English subtitles?
And what about all the immigrants struggling to learn English at school and in the society - so they can just get by in the new society they have moved to? Are they going to have to learn Maori too - in the schools - and what reaction will we expect from them when they realise that most Maori can’t speak Maori themselves - and that they are being conscripted into a gross and unprecedented social experiment involving the entire population?
Will they be resentful that theirs and their children’s time at school was used up teaching them a language that has no practical use? Those immigrant kids will be trying to learn THREE languages:- Their mother tongue at their mother’s knee - as well as English that they know they really do need - and some strange ceremonial language that needs constant new words made up for it - - - THAT THEY DON’T NEED AND WILL NEVER USE.
Will there be Maori kids in this projected modern environment who have no English?
So sorry - but all of this essay has been politically incorrect - but here comes the most politically incorrect bit:
From what I can see on the internet - because I looked - about a year ago the stats said there were apparently only 5000 ‘people’ in New Zealand fluent enough in Maori to conduct a conversation exclusively in Maori. Those same stats now - two years later - say there are 50,000 ‘Maori’ - “fluent” in Maori - or (they say) one in five in the Maori population.
If you do the sums - that official figure - (one in five) SUGGESTS - that there are only 250,000 Maori in New Zealand - but the stats clearly say (just ask Google) there are 875,300 Maori in New Zealand. If any of this is to be believed - that means that only one in 17 can speak Maori.
What we can deduce from that - is the plain fact that none of the stats can be believed - and that will go for all the eye watering millions and billions of dollars being “invested” by government in all things Maori - by the Maori focused and oriented Labour/Green/Maori Government - and that has to include the expenditure being used to give Maori control of the Water Services and the Health Services - all well in train as we sit here doing nothing - not to mention the vast sums being spent on propagating Maori language.
So - one more even more politically incorrect thing to say about this:- The general conception seems to be - that Maori kids in school are low achievers because of cultural issues - and I believe that would be because their parents are less rigorous than others about making sure their kids are properly educated - and THAT - I believe - is because government and Media have helped build up a dangerous level of cultural resentment about the European culture and language that they all - every single one of them - live in.
So as an aside to that travesty - how are those Maori kids doing with Maori Language? Are they excelling - and does that show at exam time?
Let’s see the stats please.
If Government and Media are to be believed - those Maori kids should be getting Maori language at home - giving them an advantage over all non-Maori kids in schools - some of whom are struggling to be not just bi-lingual - but as I said earlier – TRI-LINGUAL?
Note in the picture - the made up Maori words - alliterations - and the only ones that could have existed before European came - are "Student" and "Teacher".
Denis Hall describes himself as an old man and an artist - a thinker - a writer - and a commentator. He does what he does - for the love of it.
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I taught English in China for over 11 years, where it is valued for International trade, finance and communication, also prized by students from primary school. University graduates cannot receive their degrees until they have passed the university English exams. In this banana republic we are bastardising our beautiful language and destroying most of the citizen's heritage and culture. I also taught Physics and Biology so I think I have the intelligence to know when an injustice is being forced onto our population. Kiwialan.
Until people wake up to the fact there is a bigger agenda at play here, nothing will change. Even the opposition politicians are not prepared to do their own research much to the detriment of all Kiwis.
Ardern is an idealogue, the Maori caucus see a great opportunity here to push their own agenda.
As we saw during the second world war media propaganda was used to great effect to push the narrative. Basically, they( whoever they are and none of us seem too sure about this) are dividing us and language is an effective tool, as is discrimination between the "vaxxed" and "unvaxxed".
Transliteration not alliteratiob Denis. Otherwise good piece
I Thought that you explained all that very lucidly Dennis, but if you were aiming at academia and politicians I think it may have been a bit deep in places. Not enough pictures. Teaching is out the window under the new regime. It is called indoctrination now. Reading and writing is now not realy taught as there are so many illiterate and inumerate coming out of school. Still, education is becoming redundant with this totalitarian cult as you are not expected to be able to think for yourself, just do as you are told.
Great article thank you. Governments gave also left out of our history NZ was also inconveniently already inhabited by Europeans and others when maori arrived. I have found some research books with preMaori photographs:
https://www.spectator.com.au/2021/06/time-for-the-lying-to-stop/
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/taiwanese-indigenous-tribes-want-maori-cuzzies-to-come-home-for-a-holiday/3Z6RBQOTAHBBOFTXWELXH6R5EI/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLRrUNuLC4Y
It is especially tragic that very able teachers have to spend their time teaching English as the second language to trace maori children brought up in total immersiaon schools. An unbelievable inefficency and mis direction of resources.The only merit is that some will remain sufficently handicapped not to be able to become Mahuta replicas.
The great thing about reading your stuff Denis. Its a perfect cross reference for what goes on in my head. I can't put it quite as eloquently, but your totally channeling my thoughts.
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