How do you like this bit of pro-Maori propaganda on Stuff online. There is a poll running as well, please vote on it. Poll Would you send your child to a total immersion school of another culture? is currently No 61%, Yes 34% WHY MY PAKEHA CHILD GOES TO KOHANGA REO So, here is why. My nearly 2-year-old daughter, Fern, may be Pakeha, but she is from Aotearoa, New Zealand. She can learn Pakeha culture and the English language from her parents and family, but I also want her to learn Maori customs and culture. We live in a bicultural (if not multicultural) society and I want her to be equally familiar and comfortable interacting with Pakeha and Maori, in English or Te Reo. I only moved to Hamilton from overseas two years ago. Before that, I was shockingly ignorant about New Zealands history, and when I learned about this countrys past 250-plus years, I felt sadness about the historical relationship between Maori and white colonisers. Even today, I often feel I am living in a divided society. I have witnessed the full spectrum from outright racism to unintended discrimination and embedded prejudices from both sides, and I wish it wasnt like this. Not growing up here, I have been told I just dont understand the relationship between Pakeha and Maori, and maybe I never will. But I know that I dont want my daughter to grow up with stereotypes and prejudices about people from different races.... .Then shell grow up and fight institutional and systemic injustice and prejudices. Yep, thats definitely how it plays out in my mind. Because we are all people. Not all the same, but definitely all equal..... Full article here > stuff.co.nz/stuff-nation/11091816/Why-I-send-my-Pakeha-child-to-Kohanga-Reo
Posted on: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 22:50:53 +0000
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