How come European New Zealanders embraced the native Maori tradition while Australians did not?
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The New Zealand government was confiscating Māori land under dodgy pretenses up until the 1980s, beating kids in school for speaking Te Reo Māori, using the Treaty of Waitangi (which was only there to kocn the French out) as toilet paper, and packed Māori into special seats in Parliament so that other MPs didn’t need to appeal to Māori or Māori issues.
‘Embracing native Māori’ tradition is only a recent phenomenon in New Zealand history that’s still very controversial. Before that, the only ’embracing’ was some places keeping their TRM names or having the haka at rugby games. The premise of this question is flawed.
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