A bizarre craze seems to be sweeping New Zealand right now. All things derived from Europe except our creature comforts must be set aside as we are expected to embrace all things Maori. It’s racism on a grand scale.
No longer do our television stations refer to New Zealand. In fact, we are lucky if its Aotearoa-New Zealand. No reference to the fact that, as Michael King shows, Maori didn’t have a name for these lands, and only came to accept “Aotearoa” in relatively recent times. Several newspapers are falling into line and are now calling our country Aotearoa, a name unknown to most people beyond our shores. No public debate. We are expected to acquiesce. The name “New Zealand” which dates back to Abel Tasman’s visit in 1642 came more into early use and is the name by which our land has always been recognized abroad. It won’t be long before the woke who are driving all this insist on officially changing our country’s name. Instead of being proud New Zealanders, we’ll be expected to call ourselves Aotearoaians. They’ll try to avoid a referendum lest it results in rejection like occurred with changing the flag. Just impose it! The woke have no respect for democracy.
Government departments and public institutions are being renamed at such a rapid rate that it isn’t clear what the names refer to. Waka Kotahi for Transport? Why? Since all forms of transport except the canoe were unknown to Maori, and were imported from overseas, why a Maori name? Where did Waka Kotahi come from? Waka, yes. But Kotahi? It doesn’t appear in the revered Bruce Biggs’ Maori dictionary. Waka Kotahi wasn’t a term used by Maori before settlers arrived in the 1840s and 1850s. There are other institutions with self-bestowed Maori names that are unrecognizable to ordinary Kiwis.
Radio New Zealand, too, has been working full time. They are deleting the words both “radio” and “New Zealand” from everyday use. Nowadays it’s “Te Irirangi o Aotearoa” or “RNZ”. Don’t mention dreaded English terms! Some Radio New Zealand reporters fall over themselves trying to conform to a ruling from on high that they should introduce themselves in Te Reo, despite the fact that the concept of radio came from overseas, and was absolutely unknown to Maori.
We have also been told recently that all streets in New Zealand are to be given a Maori name. Wow. That will be an expensive exercise! Who will dream up the new names? The Maori Language Commission that seems to be churning out new words at 200 kph? And since Maori were very thin on the ground in the Auckland area in 1840 and were soon rapidly outnumbered by settlers, it won’t be appropriate either. A relevant fact provided to members of the Waitangi Tribunal during the Kaipara case I heard was that in 1840 there were only 800 Maori living on the million acres of land between the Kaipara and East Tamaki. That fact will be conveniently overlooked. Nothing is sufficiently disrespectful for Pakeha whose street names quite often have family or historical significance to them.
Similar examples of cultural cringe are showing up with the move to teach New Zealand history in our schools. Scratch the surface and it becomes clear that those driving the idea want to downplay the huge significance of the arrival of European culture in New Zealand. Rather, they intend to replace it with only partially accurate accounts of the difficulties Maori faced when brought into contact with a more developed culture. Recently, I sought from the Ministry of Education details about who was designing the curriculum. Back came the names of a couple of black arm band school teachers and a collection of Maori radicals. There were a couple of academics, both Maori. No serious Pakeha historian in sight. We can say with certainty that a skewed version of New Zealand history will be devised, one that leaves out things like the Musket Wars where Maori did irreparable harm to their own economy and society. Instead, there will be much concentration on “evil” colonial land purchasers and settler governments, and excessive Maori land confiscations at the end of the wars of the 1860s. About the last of these, of course students must be told. The confiscations came on top of the damage that Maori had already done to themselves and helped further depress the Maori economy and damage Maori society. But what is taught to modern students should not exclude everything that reflects badly on Maori themselves. Moreover, kids need to know that up to 50% of Maori in the country in the 1860s sided with the Crown. And they need to be told why. The term “Kupapa Maori” to describe those Maori is regarded by modern Maori as equivalent to being called an “Uncle Tom”. But it was respected in earlier times.
And if one needs any more evidence that cultural cringe has reached massive proportions in Auckland, have a look at the programme for the Auckland Arts Festival between 4-21 March 2021. Its Maori name, Te Ahurei Toi O Tamaki, takes precedence on the front cover. Remember, that in Auckland, Maori are only 11.5% of the total population. Pacific Islanders are 13% of Auckland’s population and Asians constitute more than 25%, according to the latest census. People of European ethnicity make up more than 50% of Auckland’s population, but in the eyes of the organisers of the festival they don’t count. The programme is “kapa haka, Maori artists, waiata sing alongs and korero [that] will bring the taonga that is te reo front and centre for audiences”. Really? In a city where almost 90% of people are not of Maori ethnicity? Why hasn’t Auckland City, Creative New Zealand, Foundation North and a collection of worthy sponsors spared a thought for the overwhelming majority of Auckland citizens and ratepayers? Where is the “equity” in this festival?
Answer: too much power has been allowed to slip into the hands of crusaders who for too long seem to have been able to commandeer the resources of others for their own political ends.
When, or will, Aucklanders, and New Zealanders as a whole, stop cringing and wake up to what is being done to their culture and largely with their money?
Government departments and public institutions are being renamed at such a rapid rate that it isn’t clear what the names refer to. Waka Kotahi for Transport? Why? Since all forms of transport except the canoe were unknown to Maori, and were imported from overseas, why a Maori name? Where did Waka Kotahi come from? Waka, yes. But Kotahi? It doesn’t appear in the revered Bruce Biggs’ Maori dictionary. Waka Kotahi wasn’t a term used by Maori before settlers arrived in the 1840s and 1850s. There are other institutions with self-bestowed Maori names that are unrecognizable to ordinary Kiwis.
Radio New Zealand, too, has been working full time. They are deleting the words both “radio” and “New Zealand” from everyday use. Nowadays it’s “Te Irirangi o Aotearoa” or “RNZ”. Don’t mention dreaded English terms! Some Radio New Zealand reporters fall over themselves trying to conform to a ruling from on high that they should introduce themselves in Te Reo, despite the fact that the concept of radio came from overseas, and was absolutely unknown to Maori.
We have also been told recently that all streets in New Zealand are to be given a Maori name. Wow. That will be an expensive exercise! Who will dream up the new names? The Maori Language Commission that seems to be churning out new words at 200 kph? And since Maori were very thin on the ground in the Auckland area in 1840 and were soon rapidly outnumbered by settlers, it won’t be appropriate either. A relevant fact provided to members of the Waitangi Tribunal during the Kaipara case I heard was that in 1840 there were only 800 Maori living on the million acres of land between the Kaipara and East Tamaki. That fact will be conveniently overlooked. Nothing is sufficiently disrespectful for Pakeha whose street names quite often have family or historical significance to them.
Similar examples of cultural cringe are showing up with the move to teach New Zealand history in our schools. Scratch the surface and it becomes clear that those driving the idea want to downplay the huge significance of the arrival of European culture in New Zealand. Rather, they intend to replace it with only partially accurate accounts of the difficulties Maori faced when brought into contact with a more developed culture. Recently, I sought from the Ministry of Education details about who was designing the curriculum. Back came the names of a couple of black arm band school teachers and a collection of Maori radicals. There were a couple of academics, both Maori. No serious Pakeha historian in sight. We can say with certainty that a skewed version of New Zealand history will be devised, one that leaves out things like the Musket Wars where Maori did irreparable harm to their own economy and society. Instead, there will be much concentration on “evil” colonial land purchasers and settler governments, and excessive Maori land confiscations at the end of the wars of the 1860s. About the last of these, of course students must be told. The confiscations came on top of the damage that Maori had already done to themselves and helped further depress the Maori economy and damage Maori society. But what is taught to modern students should not exclude everything that reflects badly on Maori themselves. Moreover, kids need to know that up to 50% of Maori in the country in the 1860s sided with the Crown. And they need to be told why. The term “Kupapa Maori” to describe those Maori is regarded by modern Maori as equivalent to being called an “Uncle Tom”. But it was respected in earlier times.
And if one needs any more evidence that cultural cringe has reached massive proportions in Auckland, have a look at the programme for the Auckland Arts Festival between 4-21 March 2021. Its Maori name, Te Ahurei Toi O Tamaki, takes precedence on the front cover. Remember, that in Auckland, Maori are only 11.5% of the total population. Pacific Islanders are 13% of Auckland’s population and Asians constitute more than 25%, according to the latest census. People of European ethnicity make up more than 50% of Auckland’s population, but in the eyes of the organisers of the festival they don’t count. The programme is “kapa haka, Maori artists, waiata sing alongs and korero [that] will bring the taonga that is te reo front and centre for audiences”. Really? In a city where almost 90% of people are not of Maori ethnicity? Why hasn’t Auckland City, Creative New Zealand, Foundation North and a collection of worthy sponsors spared a thought for the overwhelming majority of Auckland citizens and ratepayers? Where is the “equity” in this festival?
Answer: too much power has been allowed to slip into the hands of crusaders who for too long seem to have been able to commandeer the resources of others for their own political ends.
When, or will, Aucklanders, and New Zealanders as a whole, stop cringing and wake up to what is being done to their culture and largely with their money?
Historian Dr Michael Bassett, a Minister in the Fourth Labour Government, blogs HERE. - where this article was sourced.
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Maori are NOT 11.5% of the Auckland population. That may be the proportion who are enrolled on the Maori Electoral Roll, but there is no requirement for any proof of Maori heritage at all. Many are merely ignorant people of European lineage who are unaware of the historical facts. While some sympathy for Maori is understandable, they were undoubtedly saved from extinction by the arrival of more-advanced people from Europe. That those Europeans were requested to help by many Maori chiefs is not surprising, as many understood that co-operation was preferable to oblivion!
The election results indicate an at least partial re awakning. Hopefully it will be built upon.
And so it will continue...... too late to reverse now.
Violence is being threatened if any aspect of this transformation is altered.
Australia is fortunate - by a happy error, the referendum was held first and the people spoke. It is now hard for Albanese to advance the other areas of the process.
Clearly in NZ, the politicians intend to deny the people the right to speak - unless they insist themselves.
I simply refuse to cooperate with the Maorification process. It’s Mount Egmont. I recently had cause to email the Canoe Department….
Maori names for cities built by colonists is, of course, ridiculous, but it pales in comparison with NCEA Level 2 Biology exam papers. One of the 2020 papers is on cell biology and elementary biochemistry. Though such topics were completely unknown to Maori, translation of technical terms into te Reo evidently presents no problem:
https://www2.nzqa.govt.nz/assets/NCEA/Subject-pages/Biology/91156/91156-Pepa-whakamatautau-2020.pdf
As the paper includes space for student answers, you’ll have to scroll down to see the English ‘translation’:
Koiora, Kaupae 2, 2020
91156M Te whakaatu māramatanga ki ngā tukanga ora e pā ana ki te pūtau
TŪMAHI TUATAHI: TUKUPŪNGAO Ā-PŪTAU
(a) Tuhia te whārite kupu mō te tukupūngao ā-hāora.
(b) Pā mai ai te tukupūngao ā-hāora i roto i te punaraungao, otirā pā mai ai te tukupūngao hāora-kore i roto i te waitepe. He kaitāmi te haeanate o te pūmua whākōkī cytochrome c oxidase, he pūmua whākōkī hira tēnei i roto i te tukanga tukupūngao ā-hāora.
Matapakitia he pēhea te pānga o te haeanate ki te tukupūngao hāora-kore, ā-hāora hoki me te whakanaonga o te ATP.
I tō tuhinga:
• whakaahuatia te mahi a te pūmua whākōkī
• whakamāramahia he pēhea te tuku a te hanganga o tētahi pūmua whākōkī ki te mahi i ana mahi
• matapakitia he pēhea te whakaawe a ngā kaitāmi pūmua whākōkī i te mahi a te pūmua whākōkī me ngā tauhohenga koiora.
Level 2 Biology 2020
91156 Demonstrate understanding of life processes at the cellular level
QUESTION ONE: CELLULAR RESPIRATION
(a) Write the word equation for aerobic respiration.
(b) Aerobic respiration occurs in the mitochondria, while anaerobic respiration occurs in the cytoplasm. Cyanide is an inhibitor of the enzyme cytochrome c oxidase, an important enzyme in the aerobic respiration process.
Discuss how cyanide would affect both anaerobic and aerobic respiration, and the production of ATP.
In your answer:
• describe the function of an enzyme
• explain how an enzyme’s structure allows it to carry out its function
• discuss how enzyme inhibitors affect enzyme function and biological reactions.
This is not a ‘translation’, but a concoction. Such contrived genuflection to Maori and beyond daft; it is infantile.
Our successive 'democratic' governments started the apartheid/racist fire and have been fanning the flames for the nigh on 50 years.
Our successive 'democratic' governments are the funders and enablers behind this Maori takeover agenda.
But we must have wanted a racist, apartheid country, ruled by a minority because after all , we are a democracy, aren't we?
Michael, your banning from the pages of the Herald should be worn as a badge of honour. Certainly it tells us all we need to know about the incompetents running the Herald and dovetails nicely with Karl du Fresnes similar experience with the NBR.
I think Cancel culture and critical race theory need to be understood better to grasp much of what is happening in NZ is the influence of an imported evil originally from the Frankfurt School, a group of 20th century Marxists.
In classical Marxist fashion , everyone is divided into the oppressed and the oppressors. Marxism failed with creating revolution with setting classes against one another so it has repackaged itself to focus on race instead.
This slimy ideology aims now to view everything and everybody through the prism of race.
The aim is to pull down traditional institutions. Critical theorists admit their intent is not actually equality under the law, nor civil rights . Not a better life for racial minorities but rather their intent is to use racial minorities as the vanguard for a Marxist revolution. Colonists versus the so called indigenous.
Reference: 'Critical Race Theory is Repackaged Marxism'. Newsweek article.
I have just seen a programe on South America and my thought was "What would have happened to the Maori race if the Spanish had colonised NZ"
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