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A country where sunshine and shadows are mingled in more ways than one.

A country discovered by a Polynesian, named Kure not by an English Captain named Cook.

A country of 5.3 million, half the size of France with 8 Universities all registered as charities.

A country with more trust than the pebbles on its beaches.

A country that used to be very far away, bought for a few glass beads.

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As the Nation prepares to mark the Waitangi treaty, it is difficult to see how the Maori culture which gives New Zealand its uniqueness, will survive at the bottom of a rapidly changing world.

The reality is.

When New Zealanders travels outside of NZ they’re knowing as Kiwi’s. When they travel within the country they are known as Pakeha by the Maori (which is an ethnic group not a social economic group.)

New Zealand as a country has and will for some considerable time impart an image of a Prestigious- Beautiful- Physical country- full of macho fit people. An outdoor playground.

However there is another side.

A country full of – Retired Rich Zimmer frame people living in over priced Australia retirement homes or wooden white houses, with galvanised roofs separated from each other by inches, with wooden decks, to watch passing joggers.

A country with rich men Holydays Homes called bashes, with more outboard engines than seafaring craft, pumping Co2 into the atmosphere than all its cows and sheep combined.

A country with competitive bible bashing churches, gum boots cattle farmer’s, tattoos gangs – global warming- kiwis growers- that shakes now and then with volcanic activity with one in four of its people mentally insecure.

A country now with the new Treaty Principles Bill at a pivotal time in its political history, but unfortunately it is full of small groups of wealthy people hiding behind asset stripping churches, (that are designated as charities), who are forging ahead to protect their entrenched economic power, which is leaking at an increasingly rate to the immigrants populations, while the indigenous population ie the Maori are becoming surplus to the country needs.

This mix is now supercharged to cause untold troubles, because of the rarely discussed inequalities and racism suffered by the indigenous peoples of the country. The New Zealand Māori. Who if travelling outside the country might not be recognised as a KIWI but as an all black.

This section of the population comprises 20% of the population but accounts for 52% of the prison population showing a cultural disconnect, underscoring the difference between the two different cultures residing in New Zealand.

Now I don’t claim to understand Māori culture/religion nor do I have any real understanding what’s the country obligations are under Te Tiriti, but can someone kindly put the following into lay man’s language.

The establishment of a Maori parliament and the signing of Te Ngakau o te Iwi Maori are critical steps towards asserting our tino rangatiratanga, laying the foundations of our motuhake, and ensuring decisions for the future of our mokopuna.

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New Zealand is still a small island country hard to get around without a car, with more than half its population living in Aukland.

Ka mua, ka muri”, which means walking backward into the future.

Ka mua, ka muri as the methodology urges us to learn from the past to navigate the future.

While the future evolves from the past, it is not bound to repeat it.

To me this KA MUA KA MURI is making a passage from one nation to another.

Without an a written constitution giving equality opportunity to all communities within that country the move from one sector of society to another is only rituals to mark the passage of time.

In a colonial situation like the Māori people descendants now trying to reclaim their land in a world of globalisation this is absolutely unacceptable.

Perhaps with the surging technological competence ( with no connection to any mythological or sacerdotal systems from Inuits to Maori.) it’s time to ask Artificial Intelligence’s to write a comprehensive constitution for the NEW Zealand of the future.

Some societies are impenetrable to observe from the outside.

It’s not always possible to make a clear distinction between the concepts of law and politics.

Mechanisms of social control can hardly be described as legal.

The question is where is NZ going.

Just like the rest of the world NZ is beginning to value its unique position.

To day there is a sense of selflessness, a hubristic sense of superiority, and unrivalled ingredients of Maori & Pakeha mythologies, devised to justify and explain their presence in the country, in order to give meaning and some social cohesion to their lives of their peoples.

Unfortunately the sense of imagination is lost to the whining winded smart phones chatter, that leads to dull conversations with in one’s head.

I say get a life.

Here today gone tomorrow.

All human comments appreciate. All like clicks and abuse chucked in the bin.

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