[KiwiHopeful]

I caught a little bit of that report too while I was cooking dinner. Am I correct in thinking that I heard one of the Maori say that their kid(s) didn't know how to do the haka?

If so, that's really kind of sad. I mean, everyone should have the right to live where they want and make the kind of lives for themselves and their family that best suites them (that's not an absolute, but you know what I mean) but I think it would be too bad if 30 or 50 years from now Maori language, traditions, and culture where gone.


Especially since the NZ gov't seems to have a really progressive policy toward the Maori. I think about how native peoples have been treated in the US--and in other countries in the Americas--where gov't policy has officially or unofficially destroyed their cultures.