07-05-2023, 10:40 AM
@Tiger - it’s interesting that you mention the issue with cultural appropriation in Canada
For some reason, New Zealand is the only settler country where there’s been a cultural fusion of sorts. The All Blacks (rugby team) have adopted the Haka. Māori names of places and mountains are the norm, not the exception (and it helps that they are generally multi syllabled and musical). White NZ seems to have adopted Māori culture respectfully, or at least that’s what it looks like as an outsider.
The situation in Australia is quite dismal, not least because the natives here were massacred and that original sin coloured all future interaction, while in NZ there was a treaty.
@TqB - I second your point about Pound. I find him difficult to navigate.
And I recognise the poem.
It was about the death of her parrot
For some reason, New Zealand is the only settler country where there’s been a cultural fusion of sorts. The All Blacks (rugby team) have adopted the Haka. Māori names of places and mountains are the norm, not the exception (and it helps that they are generally multi syllabled and musical). White NZ seems to have adopted Māori culture respectfully, or at least that’s what it looks like as an outsider.
The situation in Australia is quite dismal, not least because the natives here were massacred and that original sin coloured all future interaction, while in NZ there was a treaty.
@TqB - I second your point about Pound. I find him difficult to navigate.
And I recognise the poem.
It was about the death of her parrot