WAATEA NEWS COLUMN: Digital fluency but no cultural fluency

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It’s good that digital technology will soon become a compulsory part of our education system so that students have digital fluency, but in the week where we celebrate the Maori language, when will our students gain cultural fluency?

It’s not just that the Maori language is as far away from being compulsory in our schools as it ever has been, it’s our total lack of understanding of our own history.

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  1. This 72 yr old pakeha says; “To know Māori is to BE AWAKENED AND TO learn to love Māori.”

  2. Hmmm I think the govt would get too much pressure from Chinese, Arabs, Indians etc that we were being politically insensitive to our other cultures. After all, our heritage no longer matters because we’ve blindly embraced multiculturalism at the expense of our heritage.

    Of course, if we go to other countries we are expected to respect their culture but, hey, the do-gooders win on this one.

  3. I just heard on Morning Report this morning that the NZ Herald has been shamed into apologizing for refusing to print a death notice in maori.
    Good old NatzHerald, always willing to promote the worst aspects of NZ culture.

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