Is the Haka cultural appropriation?

[wash]

The Haka probably is cultural appropriation, but that doesn't mean there's anything wrong with it.

So what you're saying is that the New Zealand rugby team can't use a traditional challenge from the indigenous population of New Zealand because they ain't Maori.

 

[Typhoonftm]

We should make one up and make them watch us then. Why is it only one way?

Hokey Kokey I reckon.

 

[qixman]

No it isnt. It does exist.

No it doesn't.

 

[mackem in milan]

It has been controversial in New Zealand with the All Blacks being seen to profit from it and make the version they use the 'official' one. Also underfunding of Maori rugby and all white teams going to apartheid South Africa. Here is an old article and a more recent one about a tribe being given the property rights.

 

[Deleted member 14766]

Load of shite
Why the fuck do the oppo have to stand and watch? I would turn my back on it

Oh I don’t know. Something to do with respect and not being an utter twat? Just a thought.

 

[jackynutmeg]

Oh I don’t know. Something to do with respect and not being an utter twat? Just a thought.

Bollocks

 

[riffraff]

Discuss.

You’ve got ower much time on your hands lass. Wash the bairns, gan for a walk, read a book, cut his Coventry shirts up or summit.

 

[Charmless Man]

Well I’m not sure. But I was thinking of that lass who got lamblasted (sic) for wearing a Chinese dress to her prom a while back or someone who got shouted at for putting cornrows in her hair, and I was watching a load of white blokes doing a Maori dance just there and wondered how they can get away with it when others can’t.

(For the record, I don’t think my two examples are cultural appropriation)

Lots of the ‘white blokes’ have in the All Blacks side have some Maori heritage and those Maori lads are playing a ‘white man’s’ game?

 

[riffraff]

We should make one up and make them watch us then. Why is it only one way?

I’ve advocated doing our national dance for years now. Altogether now: “You put your right leg in, your right leg out.....”

 

[mad cyril]

It’s embarrassing and tragic, grown men doing a daft dance.

 

[Harry Angstrom]

Have you f***ing read anything I’ve written in here?

I’m arguing against it you numpty.

You are a full on middle class liberal.

 

[HellsBells]

You are a full on middle class liberal.

To quote @Caer_Urfa :

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[riffraff]

You are a full on middle class liberal.

Middle class!

 

[The Exile]

In the real world? Of course not.

Unfortunately the madhouse is ever-encroaching.

 

[CEF]

This. We should make summat up and just do it in response. Or turn our backs (I know it’s been done before but I don’t see why we have to “respect” it).

Should just laugh it off, then when it's finished shake their hands "well done savage, lovely dance. Pip pip."

 

[Cockney Mackem]

Are Hells Bells and Cockney Mackem the same person or perhaps husband and wife?

I have never met a more looney left person / couple in my life.

That's because you live in a cave in the 1970s

 

[Deleted member 14766]

Bollocks

You disrespectful utter twat.

 

[Hair Flick]

Thought the Geordie Haka would have been rolled out by now.

 

[super noodles]

So what you're saying is that the New Zealand rugby team can't use a traditional challenge from the indigenous population of New Zealand because they ain't Maori.

That's the opposite of what I'm saying.

 

[HellsBells]

That’s true it does.

Every time I see a black bloke wearing a suit my blood boils.

You probably should look up the definition of cultural appropriation before you go down that route mate.