Google Maps and Google Street View allows us to easily familiarise ourselves with every street of a foreign city through before we even start packing our bags!
Human migration and cultural interaction have become deeply intertwined, steering global diversity, triggering, and forcing, social adaptation. Migration, whether voluntary, for work or education or involuntary such as refugees, involves individuals navigating new, challenging cultural landscapes, which requires the reshaping of identity, the changing of behaviour and the learning of new cultural norms.
This is Acculturation: The process by which an individual or a group adopts, adapts, acquires and adjusts to a new, more prevalent culture by participating in aspects of the more prevalent culture. The existing social and cultural values, ideas, beliefs, and behavioural patterns of their culture of origin are adjusted to include those of a different culture.
Acculturation can be a positive experience that leads to increased understanding and tolerance of different cultures. But it can also result in negative outcomes such as prejudice and discrimination.
But have you ever heard the term inverse acculturation? Inverse acculturation? Never heard of it?
I am proposing New Zealand is undergoing a period of inverse acculturation.
So just what is inverse acculturation?
A recent phenomenon, inverse acculturation describes the change in direction of the acculturation process. The long established culture finds itself being edged out and the nations character turns back towards the culture of origin.
Simply put, inverse acculturation is where the majority are required to adopt the cultural values and norms of a minority.
Mmmmm, starting to sound a bit familiar now?
Inverse acculturation or versions of it are seen in many middle-eastern countries where tribalism and “ethnic cleansing” is the norm.
Sharia law and other means of acculturating the majority are common in many Muslim countries.
In UK its liberal democracy is being severely tested as concerns are raised about the takeover or spread of Sharia Law dispensed by Sharia councils. Sharia councils hold no statutory power, meaning their decisions cannot override UK law but they are giving it a very good try!
Sharia law is a highly contentious issue in the UK. Many UK citizens believe there is an orchestrated campaign to legitimise Sharia law. Some question how it can be compatible with so-called British values when the Muslim population claim it’s a separate legal system operating parallel to UK laws.
Is there is a premeditated strategy of inverse acculturation occurring in New Zealand?
Let’s start with the name of our county. This is a classic example of minority views usurping an established and long -standing place name! Our country is called New Zealand is it not?
Yet the MSM spearhead the use of the fabricated name Aotearoa! Labour preface New Zealand with Aotearoa, the Greens and Maori Party only use Aotearoa and certainly most government offices rarely use the name New Zealand any more. Aotearoa is the prominent word! Aotearoa sits above New Zealand on a citizens most precious document, their passport!
How often are we hearing the term “By Maori – For Maori”
“By Māori – for Māori” is the catch cry of activists initiatives that are designed, owned, and delivered by Māori to empower Maori communities, strengthen Maori culture, and advance self-determination.
Thomas Sowell the American author, economist, social theorist wrote, “Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination.”
Our education system is already in a parlous state. But here we are allowing academics and educationists to install the vision of a minority at the centre of a revised Education Curriculum. New Zealand’s education system now leans towards the predominantly racially distorted Te Ao Maori. The Maori world view!
Education and the influence exerted on young and impressionable minds is a fertile field for those wanting to realign the narrative around colonisation! Kōhanga Reo or language nests and Kura Kaupapa Māori, immersion schools, are filled with young minds fully receptive to their teachers words! These education settings were established with one express purpose, to ensure education is delivered through a Māori worldview!
The Ministry of Education, judging by their “Aotearoa New Zealand Principal Eligibility Criteria” display their support the promotion of The Maori world view. That document states school boards must make sure anyone they appoint as principal meets their criteria.
The Eligibility Criteria has four pou (pillars). Leader of People, Leader of Vision for Learning and Leader of Operations. Pou Tikanga Maori has no English translation except to say that a principal will bring “Te Tiriti o Waitangi to life as the founding document of a bicultural Aotearoa New Zealand.”
This pillar says a principal must “prioritise biculturalism through resourcing and funding” and “show commitment to understanding the impact of colonization on education in Aotearoa.”
The NZ Council for Educational Research play a big part in providing the Education Ministry with new or refreshed curriculum.
They have written a 5 year plan to –
This is Acculturation: The process by which an individual or a group adopts, adapts, acquires and adjusts to a new, more prevalent culture by participating in aspects of the more prevalent culture. The existing social and cultural values, ideas, beliefs, and behavioural patterns of their culture of origin are adjusted to include those of a different culture.
Acculturation can be a positive experience that leads to increased understanding and tolerance of different cultures. But it can also result in negative outcomes such as prejudice and discrimination.
But have you ever heard the term inverse acculturation? Inverse acculturation? Never heard of it?
I am proposing New Zealand is undergoing a period of inverse acculturation.
So just what is inverse acculturation?
A recent phenomenon, inverse acculturation describes the change in direction of the acculturation process. The long established culture finds itself being edged out and the nations character turns back towards the culture of origin.
Simply put, inverse acculturation is where the majority are required to adopt the cultural values and norms of a minority.
Mmmmm, starting to sound a bit familiar now?
Inverse acculturation or versions of it are seen in many middle-eastern countries where tribalism and “ethnic cleansing” is the norm.
Sharia law and other means of acculturating the majority are common in many Muslim countries.
In UK its liberal democracy is being severely tested as concerns are raised about the takeover or spread of Sharia Law dispensed by Sharia councils. Sharia councils hold no statutory power, meaning their decisions cannot override UK law but they are giving it a very good try!
Sharia law is a highly contentious issue in the UK. Many UK citizens believe there is an orchestrated campaign to legitimise Sharia law. Some question how it can be compatible with so-called British values when the Muslim population claim it’s a separate legal system operating parallel to UK laws.
Is there is a premeditated strategy of inverse acculturation occurring in New Zealand?
Let’s start with the name of our county. This is a classic example of minority views usurping an established and long -standing place name! Our country is called New Zealand is it not?
Yet the MSM spearhead the use of the fabricated name Aotearoa! Labour preface New Zealand with Aotearoa, the Greens and Maori Party only use Aotearoa and certainly most government offices rarely use the name New Zealand any more. Aotearoa is the prominent word! Aotearoa sits above New Zealand on a citizens most precious document, their passport!
How often are we hearing the term “By Maori – For Maori”
“By Māori – for Māori” is the catch cry of activists initiatives that are designed, owned, and delivered by Māori to empower Maori communities, strengthen Maori culture, and advance self-determination.
Thomas Sowell the American author, economist, social theorist wrote, “Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination.”
Our education system is already in a parlous state. But here we are allowing academics and educationists to install the vision of a minority at the centre of a revised Education Curriculum. New Zealand’s education system now leans towards the predominantly racially distorted Te Ao Maori. The Maori world view!
Education and the influence exerted on young and impressionable minds is a fertile field for those wanting to realign the narrative around colonisation! Kōhanga Reo or language nests and Kura Kaupapa Māori, immersion schools, are filled with young minds fully receptive to their teachers words! These education settings were established with one express purpose, to ensure education is delivered through a Māori worldview!
The Ministry of Education, judging by their “Aotearoa New Zealand Principal Eligibility Criteria” display their support the promotion of The Maori world view. That document states school boards must make sure anyone they appoint as principal meets their criteria.
The Eligibility Criteria has four pou (pillars). Leader of People, Leader of Vision for Learning and Leader of Operations. Pou Tikanga Maori has no English translation except to say that a principal will bring “Te Tiriti o Waitangi to life as the founding document of a bicultural Aotearoa New Zealand.”
This pillar says a principal must “prioritise biculturalism through resourcing and funding” and “show commitment to understanding the impact of colonization on education in Aotearoa.”
The NZ Council for Educational Research play a big part in providing the Education Ministry with new or refreshed curriculum.
They have written a 5 year plan to –
1. Decolonise education
2.Uphold mana Māori, whakamana (empowerment/validation) Māori
3.Improving equity for ākonga (students) and equity in education
4. Influencing the future of education
And……. their chief researcher is Rose Hipkins. Mother of Chris.
We need school principals and schools who ensure students learn to read, write and count to the very best of their ability.
Will decolonising education provide that?
If you aspire to work in any organisation funded to any degree by our government, (health, education, justice, welfare etc) you are now required to be knowledgeable in tikanga, undergo instruction in Te Reo, commit to a certain version of the Treaty of Waitangi and accept that the Treaty constitutes a legal and enforceable “partnership”.
And what about our legal system?
New Zealand’s legal system, based on the Westminster system features a separation of powers into three branches—Legislative (Parliament) – Executive (Cabinet), and Judiciary (Courts). This system contains checks and balances so that no individual group within the government can become too powerful.
“…no individual group within the government can become too powerful.” Do those words remain true? Has our judicial system been hijacked?
What is now, dangerously, permeating our legal system is Tikanga Māori. Tikanga Maori, expertly and conveniently wrapped up in legalise and presented by legal Maori Sovereignty activists as Bijural Law!
Bijural Law is the formal description of the of the entwining of an established legal system (civil law or common law, as we have in New Zealand) with a supposed pre-existing law or customary law.
The interweaving of our clearly defined civil laws with customary law is where the distorting of the lines begins and the definition of a law becomes fluid.
Further perplexity is created by the claims of sovereignty activists that tikanga is always evolving, tikanga varies from tribe to tribe, tikanga is fluid and tikanga cannot be codified!
That absurdity was summed up by lawyer and former MP, Stephen Franks, who believes tikanga gives judges a license to discard certainty. He says: “What we are doing is licensing our judges to decide cases on how they feel and not according to law. Because it is unwritten, tikanga is easily invented to suit and you can’t subject it to the normal rationality constraints.”
Chief Justice Dame Helen Winkelmann says Te Tiriti o Waitangi is an integral part of New Zealand’s legal system and hailed the “historic” move last year to make teaching of tikanga in the nation’s law school compulsory.
“Today… Te Tiriti is undoubtedly part of the fabric of our law. It is woven through it in strong golden threads, but also flows through the law, shaping and building new patterns,” she said.
There is only one consequence from the burgeoning influence of tikanga in our law courts; The rule of law is undermined, anarchy prevails and then democracy is lost!
Our health and social Services are firmly entwined in programmes to prioritise Maori. Our health services are charged with focusing on Treaty of Waitangi obligations. These services are, again, designed by Māori for Māori, utilizing cultural knowledge (Mātauranga Māori) and traditional healing (rongoa) to deliver Maori centric care.
The New Zealand Health Strategy’s is underpinned by two long-term goals.
• To achieve health equity for our diverse communities, and especially for Māori, Pacific, disabled and other groups who currently have poorer outcomes
• to improve health outcomes for all New Zealanders.
Are those strategies not one and the same thing?
And I haven’t mentioned Maori language, the power and influence of the Waitangi Tribunal, Maori Televison, Kapa Haka funding, tribal assets and wealth!
Warfare, slavery and even cannibalism were influential practices in pre European Maori culture yet now we are being bombarded with the wonderfulness and pre-eminence of all things Maori.
Maybe we are, quietly, cunningly and persistently, being subjected to Inverse Acculturation – the subsumption of a culture!
Pee Kay writes he is from a generation where common sense, standards, integrity and honesty are fundamental attributes. This article was first published HERE
3 comments:
Immediate retirement for Mother Hipkins and Judge "Sheriff" Winkelman. They have far exceeded their authority regarding their fellow NZers. Shameful hubris from both.
The same happened in America, slave owners were doing great and the economy was booming, but somehow they were forced to give up their slaves, and not only that, eventually they mixed up the schools so that their own children were forced to share space with black children. The minority got its way without so much as the opportunity for the majority to vote against it.
PK, your contribution is timely . Parliament passed legislation to remove uncertainty to the Marine and Coastal applications (MACA) by Maori in late 2025.
An applicant and others had a rehearing and subsequently the judicial process dismissed the intent of Parliament and granted consent without a further shred of evidence .
You say Inverse Acculturation , I say a breach of Parliamentary comity and misconduct in office by legal advisors against the NZ Public.
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