Maori Haka why respect a British New Zealand Colonial joke

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Sun Oct 23, 2011
Congratulations to New Zealand, they deserved to win the World Cup overall, and after the earth quakes it is fitting.

This question is not really about sport or sportsmanship. The question.
Maori Haka Yes, but why respect a British New Zealand Colonial joke imitation?

The performance (and that is what it is) has become more impressive, but no more real or cultural.
Better to see it for what it was, than the drama.
The New Zealand Haka was and remains a imitation of something that was once real, but was changed, destroyed by colonial terror.

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The fake version was for years -more village people than Maori village welcome.
Many people are questioning the relevance of sport for the modern New Zealand Haka. The only respectful way to ask the question is to raise some factual history of New Zealand itself.

Haka is Maori, New Zealand is British creation that suppressed the Maori nation.
Why should any nation have respect for the Haka when New Zealand rugby play.
New Zealand is a British creation of colonial enterprise.
The original Haka was outlawed and punished by the British, the natives made subjects of a terrorist English crown.

Apart from the unfair advantage, where the opposition have to stand and wait for one national sports side to do a Haka dance. The Haka in this case is not a genuine cultural practice of all the players and has no place in sport.

The New Zealand Haka is like the Scottish tartan Kilt, a fake creation by the English invaders who terrorized and abused.
It was only after the English Queen had organized the theft of anything of monetary worth, had terrorized and effectively enslaved the natives, did the Colonialist hand back a poor fake but approved imitation of the old and dead native culture.
Why should people respect that? In effect Respect the murder of poorly armed natives by Colonial terrorists.

Haka (singular is the same as plural: haka) is a traditional ancestral war cry, dance or challenge from the Māori people of New Zealand, which has become more familiar worldwide because the New Zealand rugby union team All Blacks perform a Haka before every rugby game. It is a posture dance performed by a group, with vigorous movements and stamping of the feet with rhythmically shouted accompaniment.

Real Maori Haka
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New Zealand is a British invention.
The Haka is Maori, but the British invaders for the Crown went to there land, murdered the natives and Maori people. Renamed it New Zealand for a cruel monarchy back in London.
The Maori people fought back in wars, as best they could try to kill off the British, but the Maori never had the guns of the cowards and bully British.

New Zealand soccer team pathetic imitation of Haka
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Skinny white guys in the background, highlighting just how fake the Haka in sport is.

The New Zealand Wars, sometimes called the Land Wars and also once called the Māori Wars, were a series of armed conflicts that took place in New Zealand between 1845 and 1872. The wars were fought over a number of issues, the most prominent concerning Māori land being sold to the settler population.
New Zealand rugby team imitation of Haka
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So the Haka we see is not real, it is a British cynical joke. Typical of the cruel monarchy to abuse and then use natives.

New Zealand is a British invention.
Haka is Maori defeated by the colonial British by brutal terrorist warfare.
Although the use of haka by the All Blacks rugby union team and the Kiwis rugby league team has made one type of haka familiar, it has led to misconceptions. Haka are not exclusively war dances or performed only by men. Some are performed by women, others by mixed groups, and some simple haka are performed by children. Haka are performed for various reasons: for amusement, as a hearty welcome to distinguished guests, or to acknowledge great achievements or occasions (McLean 1996 46–47).

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