New Zealand no matter what how much warm and fuzzies you feel about it , has an ugly White and Colonial past that still haunts us today.
This past starts soon after the Treat of Waitangi was signed in 1840, climaxes out in the New Zealand Land Wars in the mid-late 19th Century, would continue with NZ’s own White Policy (not as implicit as Australia’s mind you) where even through the 1950s the Maori Language and Culture was considered dead and thus they should be assimilating White Culture in its entirety, before we start getting movements in the 70’s and 80’s where National did pick up on the issues eventually (Labour would as well), and will lead to Treaty Settlement Process of the 90s through to today.And yet despite trying to correct the injustices we still have our Past coming back to haunt us in a variety of ways. The blog post I am reblogging makes mention of it and another one would be anyone especially White Conservatives that purport the One Law for All crap seen out there.
Then again as the saying goes: Those Ignorant of History Are Doomed to Repeat It
A young John Key once came home from a day at Burnside high school a tad irritated. There seemed to be a problem. The fact that he was not learning a foreign language, meant that he was restricted from entering the form group that boasted the schools highest academic achievers. As his mother was originally from Austria, and spoke fluent German, he proposed to her that she should have taught him the language. Mrs Key responded horrified ‘You’re never going to Europe, what use is German? The whole purpose of education is to do something with your life and German will never do anything for you’. That was the end of that. I am of the strong belief that the Prime Minister’s attitude toward Te Reo Maori and its proliferation within the context of modern day Aotearoa New Zealand was fostered and given foundation through this short, but very pertinent and…
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Talking Southern Auckland 