* Change name to Aotearoa 8% (-5% from 2022)
* Change name to Aotearoa New Zealand 19% (-5%)
* Change name to something else 2% (+2%)
* Do not change name 66% (+7%)
* Unsure 5% (+2%)
So the current name is 8 times more popular than Aotearoa and 3.5 times more popular than Aotearoa NZ.
David Farrar runs Curia Market Research, a specialist opinion polling and research agency, and the popular Kiwiblog where this article was sourced. He previously worked in the Parliament for eight years, serving two National Party Prime Ministers and three Opposition Leaders.
5 comments:
People overseas read Aotearoa and cannot pronounce it. But they can easily say New Zealand.
It seems the publishers of you local rag, "The Post", still haven't yet woken up to the fact that most of the public, and their ever dwindling number of subscribers, aren't impressed with their persistent pushing of the name, "Aotearoa". A name that has no real provenance in terms of our wider country. But as the saying goes - go woke, go broke - just like the dying city they're based in.
This does not stop the woke, virtue signalling brigade in our msm, et al from seeking to ram that horrible word down our throats at every opportunity. I think I'm correct in saying we have John Key to thank for printing the word on our currency and it is high time it was taken off again.
How on earth did that word get onto our passports? Perhaps we should be like the UK when it pulled out of Europe and went back to its non-European passports, we need to reinstate our Country's correct name wherever it has been messed with.
For all the millions of dollars that have been spent trying to get people to understand tereo by inflicting upon us this ridiculous version of pidgen-english that MSM so enjoy, the amount of tereo speakers have not increased much. Most of the new speakers are non Maori! Why are we going through this debacle, when quite obviously, most Maori aren't even interested. Go figure
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