Haka Furore

First topic message reminder :

Just 5 days to go until the Daily Mail will discover that NZ propose to make an insulting display of tongue waggling and throat slitting at twickenham.

Boy, I bet that kicks off.

White man's sport. = rugby
Native culture = haka

How come the haka is allowed to be used in nz? When the white man has oppressed native people for so long.

That's something like the gist of it.

I think rugby is a white mans sport like paper is a yellow man's thing to write on.
The English didn't invent paper or written language but they still use both.

Maori were oppressed in NZ but have never given up the fight (never surrendered either). So they kept the haka which has now been embraced by most of the country. We're a very cosmopolitan liberal accepting country now. That's why so many Brits keep choosing to migrate here every year. Also may be they want their children to be allowed to do the haka.