Robin Roberts learns about New Zealand’s Maori culture l GMA 

I'd love to go to Finland!

Same just like (Patrick saying FINLAND!!) in that one episode of Spongebob Squarepants lol

Ur not really the lucky one the country and people born and raised there r the lucky ones as a whole and where their from ur happy u came across a welcoming country

I doubt they had much choice when it came to sharing their land and I think you will find they had to fight to keep their language and traditions.

@@oyaami1874 they choose to share it today when they don't need to

@@oyaami1874 oh I don’t mean when Aotearoa was colonized!! I mean now, in 2023, we are encouraged to learn and use te reo Māori and take part in Māori cultural traditions which is very magnanimous of NZ Māori considering that history. Colonizers banned use of te reo, Māori had to fight very hard to keep the culture alive so I’m very grateful that they allow and encourage us pakeha NZers to share in it

@@Napthas we ain't sharing it today, white people (Pakeha) are still trying to take our land and resources. 2023.

Amazing my brother ❤

Thank you for letting me have my iwi and my Maori name on my birth certificate

I came to comment to find this comment i love that others are seeing Maori but id rather see USA dive into their Native people

Do you have a RU-vid channel where you, share your videos?

It is also a shame that the rest of the world are not aware of the maori custom to fill a supermarket trolley up with chips and alcohol and force your way past security without paying then blame it on pakehas.

@@user-oh4yd5uh4e yes make sure us Māori don’t get too much praise! We’ll done

@@taamecollier3088 You´re welcome. Anytime👍 News from the Rotorua Daily Post: "Child, 2, dies after Rotorua driveway accident, family member steals from doctor trying to save child's life." As hospital staff tried to save the life of a 2-year-old boy run over in a Rotorua driveway, a family member swiped a doctor's two phones and a bank card and went on a spending spree. The child died a short time later but Melissa Herewini (A MAORI) had already taken the bank card to four stores in Rotorua and bought alcohol, food, petrol, phone credit and cigarettes.

@@taamecollier3088 You´re welcome. Anytime👍 New Zealand Hearald news headline 29 May, 2024 “Raglan man Simon Terence Hamiora Kereopa drags partner outside naked, pours boiling water over her“ Kereopa ( A MAORI) dragged her outside through the kitchen door by her arms, down the kitchen steps and onto the ground. He then grabbed the kettle, which was just inside the door, and poured the boiling water over the victim - who was naked at the time - directly onto her skin. As he did so, Kereopa told her “you deserve it, and that’s what you get”. He then told her he would reboil the jug and pour it on her face. She ran to seek help from her sister but she was asleep, before running into her daughter’s room and hugging her. Kereopa then went into the room and said, “once you let go, I’m burning your face”. Judge Stephen Clark noted Kereopa’s 17 family violence convictions, eight of which were against the current victim. The man responsible, Simon Terence Hamiora Kereopa, was today jailed for the incident, his ninth conviction against the victim during their 20-year-plus relationship.

The majority are criminal scum

@@Jase1993 Better than being an uneducated, ignorant FW like you. 👍

@@Huia1975 i live here. I know that around 85% of all serious crimes are committed by non-white minorities.

@@Jase1993 65% from ethnic minorities, 35% from Europeans. Maori make up 45% of offenders, with again Europeans clocking 35% whilst the gap is large Pakeha are not as innocent as you make them out to be.

@@XCYLNT_Goddess No.

Absolutely

Do you Guys embrace your indigenous culture?

@@springwater3723 No. they are mostly in reservations separated from everyone by the government. We learn about how they were ruined by settlers, but nothing really else about the beauty of their culture. They face a lot of discrimination and are not looked to as American culture. It’s so sad.

The majority are criminal scum.

​@@Jase1993Did you happen to have analysed the entirety of the Maori population. Or are you just making assumptions based off of ideology, emotion and just plain spite?

Imagine pakeha saying I'm proud to be pakeha... Anyone of any race saying that looks ridiculous. We're alive, create your own path

​@@troyhardie1159 they proud of the culture stop trying to pick anything to hate over move on many proud Russians Australians africakns and others get a grip snowflake

@@troyhardie1159 pakeha won't say that because their history is nothing to be proud of.. Worldwide

Aotearoa isn’t a term that all Maori have used for New Zealand. The Ngai Tahu iwi have said that it has little meaning to them and isn’t a word they’d use to describe the country as a whole.

Certainly unknowingly Te Tau Ihu O Waka A Maui representative for E waru Nga Iwi or Te Wai Pounamu Southern South Islands Province..

Oh poor Hawkes Bay. My heart bleeds for the North Island right now. I truly hope you are ok. With love from Big Cuzzy Bro across the ditch 🇦🇺🇳🇿

Most of what we see today is the cherry picked best of Maori culture kind of the reverse problem, so not sure kids are getting a balanced understanding even today. For example cannibalism and the boiling heads of fallen Maori enemy tribes was "also" a big part of the culture, the tribal areas that make up what we now call modern day NZ was certainly no utopia before the British invaded, and that part of history is now been deliberately ignored.

Didn’t we all…

Good on you for learning on your own. I have been learning most of what I know about our Maori culture and history since leaving school. You're so right, there's a shocking gap, we dont teach much of our own history at all. And when you learn about it you start to see why.

@@Battleneter that's the sort of talk to belittle Maori people, I'd like to know where you get your info, because while shrunken heads are a part of their culture and can often be relatives, the notion that they were cannibals is misleading. The people who were here before us had a long and diverse history, with tribes all having their own laws. To judge them so harshly when it was the crown and others who manipulated the situation. I'd be careful what you say online, you're not coming off well.

@@shanoncg There are recorded cases of Maori catabolism, it is in no way false you are misguided. I will however say it was not wide spread and usually associated with tribal conflicts. I am not concerned if I "come off well" stating factual history.

Totally! I definitely have, but now I want to deepen my relationship and support it more

@@evedotcom you wokies like to sound nice and compassionate but it just shows how patronising you are

In New Zealand we host many indigenous tribes from the USA and Canada. It is our privilege to share experiences with indigenous people world wide. These cultures and language are a nation's national treasure and we must protect them so all children know their heritage.

Na mihi kia koe.N.Z. today 2023 is varied with alot of course ways that learning & listening to what our children's N.Z.history NZEC. curriculum openings. I have good faith in my grandchildren,that the teaches will be for them to have a knowledge of & their understandings are of what they will be either affected by or a degree of contentment. My seven heavens,are whom what validates my life too being Maori Wahine as their Nani forever..Thank you for your appreciative comment ,I trust a many of Maori would have had such agood friend in their lives..Best to you wife & Whanau

I was 80s kid too in Auckland and had Māori culture though our school life - sing our songs to my kids today. Perfected making my poi’s in Girl Guides, and high school Māori Cultural Group welcoming for all of us pakehas. Might have been the beginning of getting back to it in the 80s and totally see the kids more in our shared culture now.

That's interesting cause I went to Primary school in the 90s (so a decade later) & I was the only white girl in my Kapa Haka group but was welcomed in with open arms & hearts. No one ever told me I couldn't join. Perhaps it depended on the school.

Do you respect the Maori? Do you help them as the people of that land?

@@liltuff7303 lets just all respect each other, Respect is earned, we are not entitled to respect. Geez.

@@liltuff7303 in Aotearoa/NZ respect is earned no matter what culture people are from.

Tena Koe hope you have Whanau of your own here .Our nation has grown a diverse of multi cultures that bring new traditions offering

An experience that contributes a level of respect so awesome once you become a participate sharing human values..Na mini nui kia koe ...

Reading here of your Whanau lifetime,I'd like to share a personal experience I've only just found myself about my strong beautiful & courageous cousin whom I'm proud to say has excelled her passion through journalism sharing her love of who she's become today upon restraints of yesterday. Pls her journey relates alittle about what feelings you've described. E Tangata is the page & Nadine Ann Hura is my cousin.One of the finiest memoirist legionar with such passionate Maoridom emeritus validated beyond life.I encourage you to seek our belated Professor Taa Moana Jackson. A grip of powerful energy I'm convinced will touch a gracious intimacy of emotions..He tino pai kia koe Evesparks..Wahinetoa ..

i learned spanish from my mom as a kid but the more i talk to other multicultural/first gen americans, i find that most families are very reluctant to teach their native language to their kids, if they do at all. it's pretty sad actually. i actively search out places to practice the languages i know so that i don't forget them and i can continue to connect with a much wider variety of cultures. i wish other people would do the same as adults, even if they weren't fortunate enough to have grown up w multiple languages.

I'm from new zealand and in both high schools I went to Spanish was compulsory during the first 2 years

IT SICKENS ME THE MINDSET THAT SOME HAVE ABOUT LEARNING LANGUAGES, ESPECIALLY IF YOU ARE LINKED TO THOSE LANGUAGES. LANGUAGES KEEP CONNECTIONS ALIVE.

Lol what I remember also when I went as a kid 😊

Same here, I graduated 2 years ago. Moving up north to a more Māori populated area was the best thing I ever did. I finally got to learn my language. In Auckland it was Spanish or French and that was it.

I went to high school in the last 90's & we had Maori as a language option.

You mean Aotearoa in Tamaki Makaurau. White old woman

@@Jase1993 E hoa, insulting people doesn't encourage the use of te reo Māori. On android a long press can add a macron Tāmaki Makaurau.

@@Jase1993 that was unnecessary :/

@@AngieSainty Oh? It's unnecessary when the shoe is on the other foot, but when we say Aotearoa we get chastised for it and that's okay?

@@ItzCoopzFtw No it is not ok but people can use either. She wasnt saying anything bad about Aotearoa. You didn't need to call her an 'old white woman'.

Great advice, thanks

many are like me and lost.. Over 95% white and some Maori in me. Is this what you mean mate?

Same chit Adolf Hitlerr said in 1930s.. Why is it ok for some to have culture and others not too? I'm playing devil's advocate here..

So where would you go to do interviews and watch the native American culture? The reservations?..lol

@@brucefale6132 Why are you laughing? They were forced on those pieces of shit lands. White people damn near wiped their culture from this Earth. So yes, interview them on the reservations.

@@hawkeyemadi...I know they were you idiot. You're missing the point aren't you. You can interview them to get their story...which by the way has been done numerous times if you've bothered to find it. Secondly they don't showcase their traditions and customs on the reservations like the Maori do here do they. Don't get me wrong....I would love to see the native American Indians strut their stuff in traditional dress and so on....but they don't do that on the reservations do they. That's why Im laughing.

Agree 💯

I know, but at least I learn about the Maori, there are many platforms for Native Americans, so I know more about them than the Maori.

😂😂😂😂

It's almost like they're wishing it's Indigenous culture was like NZs maybe 🤔

Not culturally? As maybe they're too aggressive and like to abuse children or innocent people.. I know I'm part Maori and was mentally abused by my dad.. He was a crazy and had anger management issues 😮

Me2

We been through the americas

Maoris also lived in Egypt long before the Egeptians and were the ones who built the pyramids. The kaimanawa Wall is proof of this. @@DASWATSUP

There is a difference. Polynesians were settlers in New zealand. Maoris are the ones who do the smash-and-grab robberies at Michael Hill Jewellers.

​@@user-oh4yd5uh4eSo Maori were like Vikings?

The problem I have is we are cherry picking what traditionally Maori culture was, just like European countries Maori tribes wared with each other and it was brutal, they certainly never formed a united country. Cannibalism and boiling the heads of fallen enemy tribes was a large part of the culture, but it's too unpleasant so we choose to create the illusion the Islands that make up modern day NZ were some kind of utopia before the "evil" British invaded.

@@Battleneter then they could’ve also mentioned how the colonisers who invaded and decimated Maori brought guns, tobacco, alcohol and syphilis. They weren’t cherry picking as you try to put it, it was a 9 minute segment, do you really think a culture can be completely crammed into a 9 minute segment? Girl ka kite

@@ScootDoot1977 Yep Maori sold a lot of their land for weapons so they could fight other tribes, some of that sold land disputed over the years. As for tobacco & alcohol just like Europeans of the day they liked it, I am pretty sure that was not forced on them, we all now know the evils of smoking and excessive alcohol. I appreciate this is only a tv segment.

@@Battleneter which they wouldn’t have had access to in the first place if the STD bringers didn’t arrive…. Right?

@@Battleneter There is a 'name' for people like you. I sure hope you don't live in Aotearoa.

😂

That's changing. Significantly so since I arrived in Australia 33 years. About time too. You can't continue to suppress 60,000 years of history under 200 blinks of the eye.

@@triarb5790 well said

This is no sleight on Australian Aboriginals - what happened there is truely a tragedy. But Maori got a better deal not because of the character of the colonists, but because the risk of not entering into a treaty would be total war.

That was a long ass time ago mate 🤠

Moriori language and culture are certainty distinct, but not distinct enough from mainland Maori culture to highlight on American morning television, I would say. I am sure if they visited the Chatham islands, they would hear all about it.

@@charlesleroq932 I might not have been clear but I'm not talking about America or American TV. I mean in NZ itself, it's never brought up or mentioned in mainstream NZ media or within our society itself. Why should anyone have to go to the Chatham Islands to learn about them or their culture? It's not that way for Maori. Why do we not celebrate Moriori at all? Like I said I had no idea there was another tribe living here with Maori & that's wrong, they matter & should be apart of the teaching of our History, would you not agree?

@@kiwigirl7891 I don't disagree, and the first step is bringing Moriori into the new history syllabus, which is being taught for the first time this year. I know that people are advocating for Moriori to take a more prominent part of it. There are aspects of their culture, particularly their philosophy of non-violence, which New Zealanders would benefit from learning about. There is an exhibition at Te Papa of Moriori history, which is well worth visiting, if you haven't already. I would also add that Moriori culture is still going through a sort of revitalisation right now, and we might yet see a more confident, distinct Moriori identity presenting itself more prominently in the near future.

@@charlesleroq932it’s very hard to get a hold of any resources. I’ve been trying to find resources about it recently and have found that there’s almost no content to be found online about it unless you look very hard which is what I’ve been doing

@@charlesleroq932 (7 mo later) I wouldn't be the first to ask what might have been uncovered from DNA testing in NZ? This science is revealing some fascinating new understandings of human migration. The two I think of right now are - (1) some Black Americans being able to narrow in on the region in Africa that their enslaved ancestors came from (2) reporting that the vastly scattered Australian Aboriginal peoples are less similar to each other than other ethnic groups. It is estimated there were around 700,000 indigenous people when Europeans arrived there.

They do learn about Native Americans in school, cinema, museums, etc., I know less about Maori than about Native Americans.

Fill out an OIA request if you want to learn

@@charlesleroq932 i have better things to do, but it’s clear to me that it was a paid for visit.

So...... I don't understand your point!!! Planes - Cars - Trains - Boats shouldn't exist

Daddy chill!

As of June 2022 it’s 16.5%

@Sean Wilson right, just like the full blooded ones how many of them is there now?

@@kentkendall1698 Full-blooded? NZ isn't like the united states with their blood quantum nonsense.

@@charlesleroq932 yep shure do

​@@kentkendall1698Oh mate you would be surprised how many there are out there!!

Get gone with your reject history class lady. Go cook me some eggs

where are you getting that information from?

You know Google is free right?

Nooo, what you've edited it and ots still completely wrong

@@mamingakuri2436 Kia ora please share your truth so we can learn sister