Just pisses me off so much.
I was raised in a privileged super white environment in the South Island.
The more I moved from that toxicity, I realised that appreciating other cultures does no harm.
Incorporating Te Ao Māori into all aspects of Aotearoa only improves outlooks and experiences...
I was raised in a privileged super white environment in the South Island.
The more I moved from that toxicity, I realised that appreciating other cultures does no harm.
Incorporating Te Ao Māori into all aspects of Aotearoa only improves outlooks and experiences...
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“The curriculum should reflect the range of values and knowledge of the society it serves. Our English medium schooling system, which almost exclusively teaches the New Zealand Curriculum, is what educationalist Ann Milne calls a “white space”. #nzpol
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Although Southland was a bastion of whiteness, a disproportionate number of Territorials were Māori and Pasifika, a reflection of the freezing worker population.
Still took a long time to slowly evolve away from my upbringing, with expose to and living in other cultures in Asia.
This country is too challenged by "different"...
Had no knowledge of basic te ao Māori til much later
I grew up in Singapore and Malaysia and had lived in Asia, the Middle East and the Med, before half a (hated!) year in Blighty
I hung out with Indian, Chinese, Greek and Lebanese people, which in Wellington wasn't hard. My friends at school were nearly all Greek and Samoan.
Coming back to NZ after nearly 30 years overseas, it's noticeable how much more cosmopolitan NZ is.
So many Indian and Chinese people, but also South Americans, Spanish, African and Middle-Eastern
Good!
Guess that is bound to happen when you make entitlement a basis for your ideology...
Her class gave never been challenged or had to make really tough existential decisions.
Perspectives change when you don't know how you are going to feed your kids AND get to work.