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New Zealand kids perform an indigenous mourning ritual for the massacred Muslim’s. My original question was misleading. What does it mean when white kids learn and perform or participate in an aboriginal ritual? Is there true integration? Where else in the world is it evident? [twitter.com]

ToolGuy 9 Mar 19
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It's a fuck load more integrated than the States, that's for sure.

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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.

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I've just listened to Jordan Peterson saying he found New Zealand to be a very polarised society and the mass-murder recently was a sign of it.

Where the killer is from is hardly the point. Whether NZ is a polarised society is the point.

As for Peterson, I would respect his opinion above most other people.

@brentan Pffft. Jordan Peterson is the Oprah Winfrey of white males. There's a reason he doesn't publish academically any more - his ego can't take having his arse handed to him by those terrible lefties.

I've never seen that happen. Is it just wishful thinking?

If ever a man took on a myriad of opponents, Jordan Peterson is the man. In all the discussions I've watched, the only person to faze him was Matt Dillahunty. He'll be meeting with Slajov Zizek soon. I'm not aware of the evidence for your claim so I won't comment on it. Nobody, but nobody. meets as many opponents as Peterson does.

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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.

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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.

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