This blog provides a visual-verbal snapshot of Maori culture and contemporary Maori lifestyles in modern New Zealand. It presents my own experiences and observations of Maori culture and is not intended in anyway to be the definitive view on all things Maori, but rather an introduction for those who want to know more about Maori culture and its place in everyday bicultural New Zealand.
Sunday, May 24, 2009
Signs of the Times
Hawai, East Cape. May 2009. Ajr
I photographed this sign - between the roadside and a gorgeous Eastland beach - just south of the little settlement of Hawai, so I'm guessing the beach is Te Whanau-a-Apanui land. www.apanui.co.nz
im sorry but i get sick of seeing signs like this. Do the pakeha people of new zealand post signs like this on beaches!!i will never understand how the maori think they can "own" New Zealands beaches like this...shouldnt they be for the use of the people. are we not supposed to be as one? we will never be a unified country if this keeps going on. Everyone has a right to use the beaches...it makes me so angry how maori think they deserve special rights over every other Kiwi!!i was born and bread here and so was my entire family, does that not mean anything!
im sorry but i get sick of seeing signs like this. Do the pakeha people of new zealand post signs like this on beaches!!i will never understand how the maori think they can "own" New Zealands beaches like this...shouldnt they be for the use of the people. are we not supposed to be as one? we will never be a unified country if this keeps going on. Everyone has a right to use the beaches...it makes me so angry how maori think they deserve special rights over every other Kiwi!!i was born and bread here and so was my entire family, does that not mean anything!
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