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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tonguez" data-source="post: 7854384" data-attributes="member: 1125">At the end of the day it comes down to authority, both in terms of source of authority and respect for that authority.as a NZ “Maori” I see examples of the haka being performed all over the world, most recently by Japanese school children, but previously by American football players, Italian models, Belgian hipsters and drunken Englishmen.I consider it my duty to monitor and assess it, the source of my authority being ancestry and knowledge of the subject.respectfulness is a huge part of the assessment criteria, it’s the reason why Japanese school kids (who were taught by a Maori) and Hawaiian actors get a pass whereas Italians models and drunken English don’tI raise the Belgian example as I was involved after a group decided to do a mock haka there. My cousin who lives in Flanders gave me a call to address the issue. As an isolated minority in Belgium it required respectful education and calling on the support of local museums to promote the message - which indeed was one of respectthe issue is one of Authority,kids playing dress up is one thing, but it becomes problematic amongst adults when those with no connection to a cultureclaim a right to give meaning to cultural concepts or to interpretsymbols and practice for their own benefit. It’s especially so with minority cultures with very little global influence beyond their own cultural artifacts - which is why no one really worries about appropriation of US, Anglo or Chinese culture since those groups have sufficient global influence to define themselves.</blockquote>

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