It's a fuck load more integrated than the States, that's for sure.

Maybe if we stopped believing the narrative separating ourselves from each other we could see that the incomers are learning the country's ancient traditions. Haka is remarkable and deeply moving. Anyone can learn it and use it and own it. People have always learned from each other, cooking, words, new tricks. It isn't just for mourning, originally it was to scare the pants off your enemy.

A social activity. No one performs that ritual in privet. Just like the Pledge of Allegiance in this country...it is for the benefit of those watching...no one does it in privet.

In the bible you read of sack cloth and ashes involved with morning. In Africa and other places yet today people are brought in to cry at funerals. It is the perceived mourning for those who die naturally or otherwise.