How come European New Zealanders embraced the native Maori tradition while Australians did not?
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The uncomfortable but true answer is that Maori had a significantly more advanced level of material technology and higher immunity to disease than First Nations did because unlike First Nations in Australia they had not been isolated from the rest of humanity for tens of thousands of years. First Nations were relatively easily exterminated and were facing a much steeper ‘learning curve’, and ended up making up a much smaller and much weaker proportion of the population in Australia than Maori did in New Zealand.
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