This is actually an example of 'post-modernism' at work. These 'Maori' only have the cultural status that they do because of Western fetishization of the 'Maori' cultural project.
In a 'traditional' Western world, those Maori would have already been assimilated, which they have been, but not in the form that would have been the case.
REJECT MODERNITY
EMBRACE TRADITION
Nice try.
This is actually an example of 'post-modernism' at work. These 'Maori' only have the cultural status that they do because of Western fetishization of the 'Maori' cultural project.
In a 'traditional' Western world, those Maori would have already been assimilated, which they have been, but not in the form that would have been the case.