I got a bit ahead of myself – Māori Fatigue Week doesn’t start until the 15th. I’ll leave this post up but will re-upload it to X on the right date. That’s how keen I am for Māori Fatigue Week, I couldn’t even get the date straight!
My Canadian friend thinks I'm "wacist" for feeling exactly these sentiments. I've been here 35 years and was pleasantly picking up words and phrases as I went, right up until around 2 years ago when it turned into an agenda.
As soon as you force something or manipulate people into it, you start lose the room. TPM and the Labour Maori crew are setting race relations back decades.
I enjoy learning and picking up new Māori words, and I use them often. What I can’t stand is how, during Māori Language Week (Te Wiki o te Reo Māori), the mainstream media pretty much molests your eyes and ears with te reo.
Back in high school I took Māori as one of my subjects and really enjoyed it. The teacher was an old-school Māori bloke with a pretty unconventional way of teaching. That was my choice.
Math, on the other hand, I couldn’t stand. Most of what I was forced to learn in my final two years has been useless in real life – and I was right. On the rare occasion I need a formula, I just type what I want to do into Google and use an online calculator.
Couldn't agree more. I've been the same my whole life, I thrive when I'm interested in something and I picked up lots of Maori words and phrases, using them when appropriate.
This is no different to every other situation in my life when I felt i was being forced to do something, which this undoubtedly is. I dig both heels in firmly and reverse as hard as I can. I will continue reversing until I stop feeling the stick across my back.
I much prefer how things were prior to the disastrous term of the Ardern Labour party and her deference to Willie Jackson and co.
The arrival of Irish Debbie and that band of racist grifter's has only increased my alarm and concern for this beautiful country that I proudly adopted as home 35 years ago. I have 2 beautiful NZ born daughters, 22 and 15. I want to see them thrive in a country that celebrates all cultures. But no culture (or religion) should get preferential treatment over any other. No country has ever succeeded with policies like that.
Arohanui to every person in this beautiful country who wishes to move forward together. To make the motu somewhere for all of us to thrive and live out best lives as tangata whenua!
We used to do karakia before dinner and I used lots of kupu…
But I’m over the complete arrogance of the activists - the denial of my ancestry and what my ancestors bought to this country (both sides arrived in 1850s) that was great and positive. I tired of being lectured on my white privilege and kids white privilege and the genocide we are apparently responsible for…
Maori have only themselves to blame for the over saturation and fatigue…
What really annoys me is that official letter or email that is riddled with Maori words like 'mahi' when the rest of the sentence is in English. If you point it out to the sender that you don't understand their point because there are two languages used.... and I only understand one of them... English, the reply is usually 'we have to follow the Treaty principles and Te Reo is an official language...'. My reply is every Maori I know speaks English perfectly well, few of anybody else understands Te Reo.... why mix them? The message is not getting through!
A lesson from recent history for those seeking to impose the learning of a minority language in the context of forced racial seperation coupled with selective racial privilege: The 1976 Soweto Uprising—when Black schoolchildren in Soweto protested the compulsory use of Afrikaans in key subjects—was indeed a pivotal catalyst in the escalating chain of events that ultimately led to the dismantling of apartheid and the collapse of minority rule.
Don’t watch or listen to MSM and don’t buy anything from anywhere that is overtly pushing it. If I’m going to spend my valuable time learning another language, it’ll be one that could be useful in the near future!
I don’t blame you for not watching or listening to the mainstream. I still read most of what they publish, but I take a closer look and can spot the complete rubbish they put out, I then write about it. They are notorious liars.
Yes, understand. I tend to feel some guilt if the MSM is on, as if my singular radio signal is a form of complicity. But yes, I do briefly skim the headlines to see what shite they spinning.
Careful, you are giving the Maori language greater status by referring to it as "te reo" which means "the language". In actual fact, "the language" most sensibly applies to English as it is the most widely used international language.
Only Welsh and Hebrew have flourished as revitalised languages because ‘the people’ buy into them. You can’t guilt-trip people into learning a language. Coercion only creates resentment.
I got a bit ahead of myself – Māori Fatigue Week doesn’t start until the 15th. I’ll leave this post up but will re-upload it to X on the right date. That’s how keen I am for Māori Fatigue Week, I couldn’t even get the date straight!
My Canadian friend thinks I'm "wacist" for feeling exactly these sentiments. I've been here 35 years and was pleasantly picking up words and phrases as I went, right up until around 2 years ago when it turned into an agenda.
As soon as you force something or manipulate people into it, you start lose the room. TPM and the Labour Maori crew are setting race relations back decades.
I enjoy learning and picking up new Māori words, and I use them often. What I can’t stand is how, during Māori Language Week (Te Wiki o te Reo Māori), the mainstream media pretty much molests your eyes and ears with te reo.
Back in high school I took Māori as one of my subjects and really enjoyed it. The teacher was an old-school Māori bloke with a pretty unconventional way of teaching. That was my choice.
Math, on the other hand, I couldn’t stand. Most of what I was forced to learn in my final two years has been useless in real life – and I was right. On the rare occasion I need a formula, I just type what I want to do into Google and use an online calculator.
Couldn't agree more. I've been the same my whole life, I thrive when I'm interested in something and I picked up lots of Maori words and phrases, using them when appropriate.
This is no different to every other situation in my life when I felt i was being forced to do something, which this undoubtedly is. I dig both heels in firmly and reverse as hard as I can. I will continue reversing until I stop feeling the stick across my back.
I much prefer how things were prior to the disastrous term of the Ardern Labour party and her deference to Willie Jackson and co.
The arrival of Irish Debbie and that band of racist grifter's has only increased my alarm and concern for this beautiful country that I proudly adopted as home 35 years ago. I have 2 beautiful NZ born daughters, 22 and 15. I want to see them thrive in a country that celebrates all cultures. But no culture (or religion) should get preferential treatment over any other. No country has ever succeeded with policies like that.
Arohanui to every person in this beautiful country who wishes to move forward together. To make the motu somewhere for all of us to thrive and live out best lives as tangata whenua!
Yes
I soooo hear you!
We used to do karakia before dinner and I used lots of kupu…
But I’m over the complete arrogance of the activists - the denial of my ancestry and what my ancestors bought to this country (both sides arrived in 1850s) that was great and positive. I tired of being lectured on my white privilege and kids white privilege and the genocide we are apparently responsible for…
Maori have only themselves to blame for the over saturation and fatigue…
My apologies to any Maori scholars if my use of te reo isn't perfect, I do my best.
I have started throwing back a bit of Scottish Gaelic "tapadh leat".
Foirfe!
What really annoys me is that official letter or email that is riddled with Maori words like 'mahi' when the rest of the sentence is in English. If you point it out to the sender that you don't understand their point because there are two languages used.... and I only understand one of them... English, the reply is usually 'we have to follow the Treaty principles and Te Reo is an official language...'. My reply is every Maori I know speaks English perfectly well, few of anybody else understands Te Reo.... why mix them? The message is not getting through!
Agreed. Force versus choice. Socialist versus free will.
You’re not wrong! Appreciate you sharing your thoughts, Diggory. Haven’t seen you around here before, so cheers for jumping into the conversation!
A lesson from recent history for those seeking to impose the learning of a minority language in the context of forced racial seperation coupled with selective racial privilege: The 1976 Soweto Uprising—when Black schoolchildren in Soweto protested the compulsory use of Afrikaans in key subjects—was indeed a pivotal catalyst in the escalating chain of events that ultimately led to the dismantling of apartheid and the collapse of minority rule.
Don’t watch or listen to MSM and don’t buy anything from anywhere that is overtly pushing it. If I’m going to spend my valuable time learning another language, it’ll be one that could be useful in the near future!
I don’t blame you for not watching or listening to the mainstream. I still read most of what they publish, but I take a closer look and can spot the complete rubbish they put out, I then write about it. They are notorious liars.
Yes, understand. I tend to feel some guilt if the MSM is on, as if my singular radio signal is a form of complicity. But yes, I do briefly skim the headlines to see what shite they spinning.
Careful, you are giving the Maori language greater status by referring to it as "te reo" which means "the language". In actual fact, "the language" most sensibly applies to English as it is the most widely used international language.
It's all about communicating.
It disturbs me greatly that we get distracted by complete and utter nonsense like this.
Maori will never be more than a hobby language now or any time in the future. Same with Gaelic , same with Latin.
To pretend otherwise is nonsensical.
It may be Chinese in 200 years time, but in our life time it is and will always be English. Like it or not.
Only Welsh and Hebrew have flourished as revitalised languages because ‘the people’ buy into them. You can’t guilt-trip people into learning a language. Coercion only creates resentment.