Maori Language Week
Since last year the Jacinda government has unfortunately politicised the subject by, among several other things, coming up with new Maori names for government departments and agencies, often quite strange ones such as Waka Kotahi (First Vehicle) for the NZTA and then in their signage and logos making the font size much bigger and bolder than the English name (see what at least some tangata whenua think of that here).
Despite the negativity that the Jacinda government has caused, we can’t ignore the important cultural and heritage value of the language which at one stage looked like becoming defunct in the way Scottish gaelic did.
Here to start is a phrase often seen:
He aha te mea nui o te ao? He tangata. He tangata. He tangata.
What is the most important thing in the world? It is people. It is people. It is people.
Let us face it. For four hundred years or so maoris were war loving, pagan, stone age cannibals. That changed and is still changing since the beginning or European settlement. The language was limited and did not reflect modern concepts or objects. Half the language, now understood only by a tiny fraction of society and used in any meaningful sense by an even tinier minority, is now invented in recent years to accomodate those deficiences. Intermarriage and miscegenation has now resulted in a population that contains about fifteen percent, or less, with some maori ancestry and with not a single person remaining of pure maori ancestry. Nevertheless our incredibly stupid PM and the even less talented rabble surrounding her are ramming this bastardised ‘culture’ down the throats of the majority and we do not have a political opposition with the guts to say anything.
True True.
Meanwhile its a week of seeking out new and wonderful overseas news sites that dont include maori speak.
Pity the woke government hasn’t put the same resources into Sign Language.
Wonder if our next government, an Act/National coalition will revive the old National policy of closing off all witangi claims by 2014 it think it was?
As it is there will be thousands of unproductive jobs, that labour has created, where the incumbent will have to be made redundant in order to return the country to what it was.
New Zealand has clearly become an embarrassment on the world stage.