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@Mokey said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
The 'cultural advisors' are nothing but money grubbing scum. All about meeting after meeting with exorbitant hourly rates plus fully catered meals, travel costs etc etc.
They don't do jack shit, and very often do NOT represent the thoughts of local iwi/hapu, nor do they have the authority to make decisions.
It's a fucking disgusting gravy train.
Why am I thinking of Tuku while reading this...
And don't get me started on the truck driver from Huntly!!
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@Bovidae said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@Mokey said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
The 'cultural advisors' are nothing but money grubbing scum. All about meeting after meeting with exorbitant hourly rates plus fully catered meals, travel costs etc etc.
They don't do jack shit, and very often do NOT represent the thoughts of local iwi/hapu, nor do they have the authority to make decisions.
It's a fucking disgusting gravy train.
Why am I thinking of Tuku while reading this...
And don't get me started on the truck driver from Huntly!!
Aka the King of Huntly
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so this is still a story...
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/92359296/the-cultural-divide-between-maori-and-pakeha
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@taniwharugby said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
so this is still a story...
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/92359296/the-cultural-divide-between-maori-and-pakeha
Obvious exposed chasm joke here going begging.
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@taniwharugby That's fine. Just how many clothes do I need to wear to be culturally sensitive?
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@antipodean just a G-string or a pair of budgie smugglers should deal with it, afterall, that makes you not nude, sorted!
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@jegga said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@MN5 said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
She certainly is at large
She is one scary woman , she tried to smother a kid with her belly a while back. She belongs in an institution.
Doesn't the story say she lives in one?
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@dK said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
Why is being sensitive to other cultures an issue?
Because this is an example of looking really hard for some outage, when really there was none.
When you have to pull out your phone and show some university type an instagram pic saying "look, look what she did!" you just have manuafactured outrage. It's worse because they are really just using a naked chick outrage story to generate clicks.
And I find it hard to give a toss about a mountain supposedly being upset at a naked butt. More important things to worry about in the world.
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@booboo said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@jegga said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@MN5 said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
She certainly is at large
She is one scary woman , she tried to smother a kid with her belly a while back. She belongs in an institution.
Doesn't the story say she lives in one?
She should be permanently confined to it I meant
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@Kirwan said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@dK said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
Why is being sensitive to other cultures an issue?
Because this is an example of looking really hard for some outage, when really there was none.
When you have to pull out your phone and show some university type an instagram pic saying "look, look what she did!" you just have manuafactured outrage. It's worse because they are really just using a naked chick outrage story to generate clicks.
And I find it hard to give a toss about a mountain supposedly being upset at a naked butt. More important things to worry about in the world.
I find it hard to give a toss because i am struggling to see how someone taking their clothes off is insensitive in 2017.
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@Kirwan said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@dK said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
Why is being sensitive to other cultures an issue?
Because this is an example of looking really hard for some outage, when really there was none.
When you have to pull out your phone and show some university type an instagram pic saying "look, look what she did!" you just have manuafactured outrage. It's worse because they are really just using a naked chick outrage story to generate clicks.
And I find it hard to give a toss about a mountain supposedly being upset at a naked butt. More important things to worry about in the world.
Local Maori do hold Mt Taranaki as an important tipuna and a site of special significance. The sensitivity would be to understand that importance and to act accordingly.
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If people can be offended by a naked chick on a mountain, maybe they're the ones who need to change the way they think about and view the world.
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@dK so what exactly is the unsensitive part?
The fact she was naked?
The fact she did it for a nudie mag?
Fact that it was a woman?
That she didnt ask permission from the Iwi?Surely not the first person to be naked on the mountain, and doubt she will be the last.
Just find it odd that we live in a day when people are quick to be offended for someone, I mean anytime someone does a Haka, someone points out how it is offensive and insensitive.
Yes there it is always good to determine local customs and cultures, but many local cultures and customs might be quite different or unusual, or even obscure that people will always be insensitive to them without even knowing, I mean I wouldnt have thought standing naked on a mountain 2500m up would be offensive, so I guess that makes me out of touch with Maori culture.
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@taniwharugby MSM sites like NZH and stuff would prefer to stuff their pages with unimportant clickbait like this. I wish they spent as much time finding people to get upset about stuff like this as they do spell checking their articles ie not much
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@taniwharugby said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@dK so what exactly is the unsensitive part?
The fact she was naked?
The fact she did it for a nudie mag?
Fact that it was a woman?
That she didnt ask permission from the Iwi?Surely not the first person to be naked on the mountain, and doubt she will not be the last.
Just find it odd that we live in a day when people are quick to be offended for someone, I mean anytime someone does a Haka, someone points out how it is offensive and insensitive.
Yes there it is always good to determine local customs and cultures, but many local cultures and customs might be quite different or unusual, or even obscure that people will always be insensitive to them without even knowing, I mean I wouldnt have thought standing naked on a mountain 2500m up would be offensive, so I guess that makes me out of touch with Maori culture.
The worst of Maori are probably more butthurt and oversensitive than any other folk I can think of
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