tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8687643215117543088.post1208008431194949487..comments2023-12-21T23:44:40.324+13:00Comments on Maui Street: On that use of headdress: does New Zealand have a problem with cultural appropriation? Morgan Godferyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16151402259122819244noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8687643215117543088.post-90482715232560406542014-05-12T12:21:20.000+12:002014-05-12T12:21:20.000+12:00While we've got better at being respectful of ...While we've got better at being respectful of the cultures of people who live here in significant numbers, there's still a tendency not to treat Native Americans and some other groups as real people with real and living cultures deserving of respect. I doubt any of these people even thought about actual Native Americans when they put their headdresses on, rather they were probably thinking about kids playing cowboys and Indians. I think this explains a lot of the bewilderment when people point out how offensive it is - to them its like if they were dressed as pirates and suddenly real pirates popped up and got pissed off at them. helenalexnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8687643215117543088.post-78713117544767780242014-05-11T12:33:38.258+12:002014-05-11T12:33:38.258+12:00Kia ora Morgan. Yeah I feel the same way. To get t...Kia ora Morgan. Yeah I feel the same way. To get this and the Rhythm & Vines poster in one week from New Zealanders is pretty surreal. Perhaps it's suggestive though of their knowledge that if they were to appropriate tikanga Maori into their sales pitches they would need to try harder to convince tangata whenua?<br /><br />It kind of leads me down the path to the Mongrel Mob photo exhibition. I just commented on a thread on The Daily Blog about that. While I don't think it makes direct inferences to Maori culture, a whole bunch of coded language sure permeates it. All in the name of 'art', under the premise that it's validity is founded in fostering debate. As if debate is somehow novel. Tell that to the victims of gang violence. Like Mallory Manning ' s whanau.<br /><br />NoahAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com