Load of crap is all i heard

@@natesdagr8 Brilliant wasn't it? Good to hear some historic truth for a change. Hhhmmm, triggered are we?

@@sirgus8727 My farts sound more interesting than these dinosaur colonizers, thank god theyre all old and dying off and an inclusive Aotearoa is here to stay forever :))

having political bias in news is gross incompetency when it comes to journalism.

@@natesdagr8 sounds like a activist statement

Very good call mate...

@@Ricky-nq7lu Sadly there are so many who spout absolute inaccurate, mischievous nonsense without being challenged . A lie repeated often, eventually gains the mantle of truth. That just about says it all.

Good call @Noote... only thing is they are too busy rewriting it to suit their own agendas...

Maori/Europeans..they have forgotten that

Don't want Maori pushed down our throats,as it says in section 78 oranga tameriki to rip whites out of families to be abused.human rights say no abuse,children of all ages should to grow up with parents. I'm not a pakeha,not a kiwi,I'm a European and proud of it.no one tells me what to think, or do.don't forget they ate the mori ori to take over someone else's country.now saying its a myth, when it suits them.go back to China.no wonder people are leaving in droves.

The problem was white people banning Maori in schools back in the day.

@@westsideAUKILANI You obviously didn't watch and listen to the video. You just got taught the true opposite story of your nonsense. Suck it up man, you'll feel better.

@@sirgus8727 don't deny your racist history bud. It makes whatever you say after it irrelevant

@@westsideAUKILANI Absolute rot... most early Chiefs wanted English only at school - they wanted their children to have equal chance in commerce and trade... all non English speakers were treated in the same manner... the early non English speaking Europeans also.... learn the facts and why they were set in place. Te Reo was an invented language - created in 1860 from all the main tribal dialects - expressly to give Maori a united voice in communication and trade with the European....everything was being done to fast track Maori learning so they could achieve in the changing world.... Maori did similar with their total Maori immersion scheme of recent years... no doubt they will have their critics in time - those being critical of how they went about achieving their results! You can only judge history in the times it was created.. the cane and the strap were not considered harsh... most of us old ones can remember "6 of the best" when we stepped out of line at school and most Maori I know got far worse at home! By the way, English was spoken at the treaty table in 1840 - 20 years before Te Reo was even developed... so how is Te Reo the first language?

Whites got the cane as well.

They probably did

@@judis6224 Hell, I went to a boarding school and I was about the most caned boy there. I'm white.

@@granthunter8450 lm white, I left whangarei boys high in 1970, that last year I had 69 canes. It didn’t do me any harm, I deserved it. It should be bought back, to teach these little pricks that do ram raids and break into cars and so and so, you know the ones who scumbag parents who don’t give a dam, and soft cock governments who don’t believe in punishment. No wonder there is more crime and no respect anymore.

Your old Dad was correct.. I am 80 and the cane or strap was used as discipline ...and many of use oldies remember well getting "6 of the best" when stepping out of line at school in the 1950-60's! It was the discipline of the day and teachers had a great deal of authority ... at the same time the boys all did military cadet training every Friday... marched up and down to shouted orders, learnt to shoot etc ... they loved it ... they dressed in their very hot scratchy uniforms and somehow managed to wear them in the furnace heat of summer.. We were a very disciplined (and law abiding) people in those days - the result of coming out of WW2... while the boys learnt military training the girls were herded off to be taught how to cook up a storm and feed a family of 8 on a shoestring.... something after 57 years of marriage and raising a family I was very glad to have knowledge of!

I have a met a number of Chinese people who speak Te Reo.

replace dudes with Chinese and Flow with speak Te reo kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Z86FpbVlmbjQk40.htmlsi=bUL9jQbVdX6kVpZ2 @@MrAhuapai

@@MrAhuapai How many?

Mike M Roberts wearing pink against a pink background on Channel 'Toru' promoting Te Reo seems like an oxymoron for an ethnic group of people who Once We're Warriors...

Cry me a river snowflake 🤧

Just conveniently leaves out that this was because they could see no future with te reo due to the government setting up a culture that it was savagery. Plunked, as usual is full of half a cup of crap

Nice to know at one point you were 100% for te reo

Beautiful stuff that story!.

@Tina Mitchell. Wow, to have such real history taught to you .......... amazing!

U ARE SO RIGHT Tina

@@sirgus8727 Amazing! people who lived through that period, lucky they are here to regale their actual truth of those times, not what someone has parlayed later for their own advancement

As far as I know, there are three. English, maori and sign. Hope this helps. 🇳🇿NZ

@@markbenge7288 I could be wrong but from various articles I have read there are two. Maori and NZ Sign, English although dominant is de facto by nature.

Lmao english is onenof the 3 official languages but you guys are too busy touching kids to notice 😆

@@november50 that would be a new one as English has always been an official language in NZ.

@@elizabethbradley4301 If you say so. It might pay to research it further though if you wish to be certain, up to you.

i went through a similar period at intermediate school in Australia, my teacher terrorised me every day because i was an English immigrant, he used to embarrass me and call me a pommy bastard, he sometimes made me stand on my desk and throw questions at me, i eventually wagged school for 3 months, my father found out i was not attending school, but, he never found out why, being an R.S.M. i'd seen him in action and was afraid to tell him because i feared for the teacher and the repercussions that would follow, we eventually moved to N.Z. where i thrived at school, the teachers were so helpful and i soon caught up with my studies, i love N.Z. but unfortunately the present government is turning us into a third world country with an agenda which creates racism, which saddens me.

@@speeddemon9555 I'm glad to hear NZ worked out better for you. I suppose every country has some horrible teachers who hate children! And that political agenda has crept in everywhere. It seems that a lot of our politicians have graduated from Klaus Schwab's WEF leadership program...Jacinda certainly did. It's hard to know how best to fight these changes that are rapidly occurring. Apart from my horrendous school experiences I remember NZ being such a wonderful place to live. We ate seafood all the time, the rivers were clean, there were no homeless people, murders were almost unheard of, we could camp and bush walk anywhere. And we all got along pretty well. The negative political stuff began back around 1984, got really bad in the 90s and it's been pretty much downhill from there apart from a brief respite in the early 2000s.

@@tolsen8212 cheers !

@tolsen... I went to a predominately Maori school in the 1950's and quickly learnt how to survive the Maori bullies... there were 2 types of kids... the real toughs and the fast runners! I was in all the athletic teams at school!!!!! My family arrived here in NZ 1812, 1840, 1860 and all here by 1870. My old Dad born in the early 1900's and a fluent real Maori speaker (not the invented Te Reo) told me... you will learn the Maori is a bully and they fight in gangs they like odds of at least 3 to 4+ of them to one of you ... wait your chance when the ring leader stands alone and show your strength.... it took a while but I finally did this and from then on school was a breeze and I was left alone... it was known I was not an aggressive person but would not be pushed too far and was capable of fighting back. Those days were in the early 1950's and I doubt if much has changed for our kids today!

@@valeriehughes1008 Wow, hearing your story is like listening to my family. Nice to see an old school real kiwi. In those days, the bullies would have the threat of the cane too, so I think they got progressively worse behaved as punishments were phased out.

This will shock you years ago my late father helped a Maori woman a friend of his called Carol Fleet she died a few years back and she was trying to get her tribes land back from the govt in Coromandel .she told me the real push for te reo to come back in mainstream did not come from the academics of maoridom although further on they had a major hand in it but it really came from Tourist Hotel Corporation of 60s to 70s who were trying market New Zealand to international market and by bringing back Te Reo it would give New Zealand a point of difference..😮

We all got flogged at my school.

Or English in Spain

@@BishopNephi69 English is the world language mate

@@Maximustard Sorry to burst your little bubble pumpkin. 7.8 billion inhabitants on earth, 1.35 billion speak English.

@@Maximustard I'm an English teacher.

@@Maximustard lmao english are the lead runners in world wide pedophile statistics and school shootings lol

It was the practise of the day... speak English only on the school ground to bring the children into the world of commerce and trade and give them an equal chance in their lives ahead. I am 80 and started my schooling in the late 1940's...went to predominantly Maori schools, achieved a good education and have had a good successful career.... My mother's people.... my grandparents, although born in NZ, whose family came in 1860 to NZ were made to speak English on the school ground also as they were non English speaking Europeans and in the same boat as Maori. Te Reo was adapted in 1860 from all the differing Maori tribal dialects to give a united voice for Maori for trade and communication.... most early Chiefs saw English was the way forward for their children to give them a good successful chance in a very quickly changing world. Interesting that English was spoken at the treaty table in 1840 while Te Reo would not be created until 20 years later. A lot of old tribal elders opposed Te Reo as they saw their own tribal dialects would disappear with time... sadly this has happened in many tribes. Thank you for your great post!

White dudes seem to always forget the bullshit they did to Maori to make them feel that way. My grandparents were part of the generation that would get punished if caught speaking te reo. Alot of these comments are from guys who are on other videos similar to this one saying, "why do maori hongi, its disgusting, why dont they know how to pronounce their own words properly" big racist vibes coming from this older generation who should be wise but instead the total opposite.

I just had to look to my families to know they wouldn't have done that, it never made sense to me, I don't hate white people, my ancestors who were white spoke maori, my family wasn't perfect but no one's was, why would anyone just think every problem is attributed to another group of people and not themselves, its really irresponsible to encourage this, no self accountability, there's just a few people disgustingly leading us to hate our own ancestors, I mean that's just an awful thing to do to people when your families have done absolutely nothing wrong and all they did was survive and flourish and make the most of an unusual situation like many other people.

@@elizabethbradley4301 why would anyone think that problem was attributed to that one group and not themselves? BECAUSE OF THEIR ACTIONS. You white people love to forget the bullshit of your ancestors. All over the world it's the same. Forget the bad stuff,pretend like it didnt happen. This guy in this video, he wouldve made a better point by having someone with an opposite point of view. But no, hes talking and you are all lapping it up cos its wat you want to hear

Pat Ropata And there's your proof. Thanks for your history lesson.

😂😂😂 I got it 47 times in form 3...

It's just like kids today, the parents can't believe their little darlings can do anything wrong.

Cause it's an opinion piece....we dont have Fox news here in New Zealand sorry buddy

I heard or read a while ago, that in Ireland they tried to implement forced learning of (Gaeilge) and the result was the language was less used and so they stopped forcing it, people always learn better when they are interested and respect what they are being taught. I love that Maori language is alive and growing but this forced uptake beyond cultural boundaries is disrespectful to all of us.

Or shouldn’t be. Haha 🇳🇿NZ

@@markbenge7288 lol so true

Elizabeth, interesting you mentioned about Scottish immigrants, My family members came out to NZ 1850, it was only until recently I learned that they couldn't speak English but Gaelic, so I guess they learned English at the same time as many Maori.

@@andreatodd3095 ah OK that's fun, in my case they spoke English before they came here and were people that taught English to maori, they must have been good with languages, a lot of our family seem to pick up other languages quite quickly but if it's not your job and you are contributing in other ways in more isolated parts away from maori at the time, I imagine it's easier to continue with gaelic etc. My grandmother hasnt mentioned if they spoke gaelic, I'm couldn't say for sure that they did in our case. My great great great grandfather's son, scottish, was one of the architects for the Auckland museum and a few other buildings in Mt Eden that they always try to "tear down" to remove colonialism, I'm really proud of my ancestors, it wasnt an easy time for them but they did their best with 10 kids on an epic journey, I personally think our ancestors and contributions need to be appreciated and also celebrated so that all people, including maori that are related to these people also are allowed to have a sense of pride for these people that they are also connected to so we can all feel proud of ourselves as we used to. We missed out on a lot because of this perception of white people being horrible, i would get told, before I even had a concept of culture, that Irish and Scottish culture sucks by kids my age in South auckland at as young as 7, to be racist at such a young age can only come from home. We were never encouraged to be proud and weren't even told about any of it till recently, my Scottish great great great grandfather that taught English to maori in Whirinaki were absolutely adored that they wanted to swap children, it wasnt in our culture to swap children so they declined but accepted maori names as gifts in their children's names, one after the chief Tautari and one hinemoa but her name was Ina. Mabel Tautari Aimer, completely scottish and another Hinemoa, but totally scottish, however I think they used their parents chosen names as of course it meant more to them having their own birth names in tact, but the sentiment was beautiful. My grandfather spoke maori to the neighbour's all the time, this wasn't weird, I would watch it and enjoy listening to it and trying to learn, people weren't so possessive of the language and so critical of different accents. It's only in the past 50 years that this got going, especially where I was in in South Auckland, our communities were super mixed, super happy, even though we were poor, our govt just railed on our communities in the worst ways when they started separating our families by race, bad mouthing our combined ancestors, its been repulsive to all of us.

Thank for sharing Elizabeth, it's written in history now so there is the proof of our stories.

@@andreatodd3095 as long as they don't remove the stories as apparently they've been trying to do. A lot of histories and stories they are trying to dismiss, I was also told the treaty they are using, the English treaty is not the right version and the real one has been buried somewhere and it does exist but it doesn't suit their current agendas. It sounds weird but with everything I've seen and heard this actually doesn't surprise me, even Winston Peter's talks about referring to the real treaty. The littlewood treaty or something they are trying to trivialize in our govt websites along with everything else shoddy happening at the moment. If the treaty referred to treating everyone equally we would not have race based policies in our govt

@@elizabethbradley4301 please sit down. How many of your ancestors raped and murdered Maori Elizabeth? Oh, that wasnt your family I'm guessing? Riiiiiight because theirs no way you ancestors would do such a thing right? Maybe it was the English or Irish. Let's just pretend like they were all saints and none of what's been discussed. Remember the slave trade? Black birding? That wasnt your ancestors right? Did you ever stop and think maybe their was a reason why Maori felt that way towards your family or whoever? Why is it only the older white generation like the guy talking that have this point of view? You white people also tried to justify that shooting in Christchurch too, you are all of the same evil ilk

Not me Greg, I agree with you!

I agree as well. Especially on the health issue. Eat like your ancestors.

Not racist just wrong

@@stephenlennon7369 Explain how it is wrong.

@@gregmchurch Racist bigots always say some bullshit followed by "I bet you will call me racist for saying that"

There is definitely something suspicious going on where all of our freedoms and families are being abused by using our races. Except in NZ we are all quite Integrated at this point, I'm surprised they got away with this here as all maori have british or european families and have mixed communities completely. If the children are being treated differently by the govt in the same communities and they are meant to protect them, this is just very wrong in a modern time where you are aware that our races are totally mixed and we have evolved cultures that we chose. In our mixed families we would never wish these type of policies or bad mouth each others ancestors like our media, govt and agendas for the past 40 years have done. They have gotten too entrenched with trying to change our cultures and interfere in with our personal lives by blaming all of our shortcomings on our race rather than cherishing all of us and leaving us alone to live our lives as we choose. As soon as our personal lives and communities are left alone by the govts, the better

The home use? I believe there actually has been and still is a very large emphasis on speaking Maori at home. I remember being encouraged by many of my teachers at kura (school) to speak Te Reo as much as possible, especially at home. We learned a lot of modern Maori vocabulary too, I was able to speak fluently within a year of being surrounded by the language. I love Maori language week, in fact I really enjoy all language weeks. I find them a lot of fun. Verbal language is just a neat gift we have as humans.

Hence the reason to promote the language more. Gotta start somewhere

@@lunairies I'll be fine with it when there is also english language week where they talk about the origins and celebrate that as well. Being a language that is used less doesn't make it more important. Never seen an english language week, gaelic language week in which a lot of us are from Scotland or Ireland and teaching the origins of English which so few people know. My culture was spat at for generations in the area I was raised in, other people same age as me got to enjoy their cultures freely, a white kid In South Auckland was a shitshow, our govt needs to stop interferring in our cultures and races end of story.

@@elizabethbradley4301 I'm still very keen to learn Norwegian as my grandfather is from Norway, I am also just as interested in my Scottish ancestry too. I've never really understood this kind of defensiveness personally, so I'm sorry for your experience. Tolerance and kindness go a long way, and I hope you and many others can eventually come to embrace all languages with an open heart and open ears despite your experience, on all sides too.

@@lunairies my grandfather and great grandfather spoke maori who were scottish missionaries and english/irish, so as soon as you all stop talking about our ancestors as colonials and like they took away and oppressed maori and apologize for segregating our families and races in govt for the past 40 years and stop prioritising ethnicities in our health system, then I imagine we can all go back to normal as it was before all this racist BS. I should not have been spat at as a child by maori adult extremists because of people just believing that we were all assholes and creating so much hate for white children and people in poorer areas with mixed families. The govt and everyone else needs to stay out of our cultures, families, statistics and languages and do their jobs. This govt have spread so much hurtful BS to so many innocent people in their multicultural and evolved cultures I'm just disgusted. I was in a maori culture group and I'm not maori, i felt embarrassed when I was told I'm too white, I was so innocent to how possessive and rude this culture was and the support it had in berating someone that is white. Then grew up being spat at by racist maoris with a whole lot of idiots saying let's celebrate one lot and crap on the rest. To be honest, learn your languages, don't waste everyone's money celebrating everything, poor people have bigger issues than their race and language and it's called food, mental well being of not having their races used as a project and their families separated by govt, houses to live in and jobs. Govt needs to stay out of peoples cultural lives, culture is and always will be, not compulsory or forced. We choose our cultures and always have. I'm Irish,scottish,welsh,Spanish,norwegian,English,basque,Danish,Swedish and a NZer. When you have to survive and your families are mixed, there is more to life than a regimented culture, we had our communities, they were special and what our govt is representing and doing to our mixed families was horrendous and we would never inflict this upon each other.

I take that as a compliment. Thank you.

I'm Maori and this piece doesn't have me thinking critically at all It's fairly simple to follow He's only quoting from actual written statements

You are way off and totally wrong, first of all, you are only giving characters to the sound, that are in Te reo, The meaning of the word you didn't have, that was for Maori to give,

The Moriori did get a bite, lots of bites, taken out of them. 😂😂😂 I did start looking at history, but I seem to find so many contradictory stories that it is hard to see the wood for the trees, so I'll just give up. I'll go live in the Philippines and I will leave this country that I came to 56 years ago. I was proud to call it my home, but not anymore. I'm sad about that but I will be better off in the long run.

😆😆😆 Thanks for making me laugh..."We roast pork these days......" classic Billy T humour.

Absolutely agree! Coming from a country once upon a time under a colonial power, the responsibility of one’s identity not being lost lies with the parents. My son was born here in NZ & grew up in a home where English was not spoken by choice knowing that he would learn English at school whether he liked it or not as it was part of NZ’s school curriculum. English is our second language and we certainly used that to our advantage to integrate in our modern society but we certainly cannot abandon our roots.

Magandang umaga, I agree, I love the Philippines, that's where I'm going to live in about 6 years, and I will learn Tagalog and Bisaya and I will be somewhere I can call home. I will not hear bitching about evil Spanish colonists. I'm out of here, I'm so over all the poor me BS here from the 20% of the 18% of the population, and the politicians. Probably more than 60% of the genetic makeup of people that complain are 'evil white colonist' 😂😂 therefore they do not have grounds for complaint because their 60%+ needs to apologize to their 40% - and then they need to get over themselves.😂😂😂

Ww1 vets weren't just given land and how gross you be so critical of people that were in the most horrendous war, thousands of NZers fought in the war, also at such a young age and thousands died. Some people didn't even make it past the beach. You should be so lucky you are not in that situation. The land was given to people who had the abilities to farm the lands and provide food, it was only given to those that had skills to use the land to provide to the entire country. Not every war vet got given land. That is literally impossible, there is not enough land to go around. Where are you getting your rotten and ungrateful view of everything. Your views on what happened are very distorted and totally bizarre berating people that literally went through the most horrendous conditions to try and protect all of our people.

@@elizabethbradley4301 🤣😂theres that typical ignorant and naive so called superior head popping up again ...embrace darling not divide as you were taught by your elders pffft ..bless your poor misguided soul ..you were told a lie accept it ..which i know is hard for you🤣