If we want to remain New Zealanders, to feel like New Zealanders, - TopicsExpress



          

If we want to remain New Zealanders, to feel like New Zealanders, to act like New Zealanders, to present ourselves to the wider world as New Zealanders - then we must be able to listen to our own voices and trace our own footsteps; we must have our own heroes and heroines to inspire us, our own epics to both uplift and caution us; we must persist in building our own culture with our own ingredients to hand, and not import those ingredients ready-made from abroad. We can never shut out the rest of the world, but we must try to greet it as an equal partner - not as a land culturally bereft and waiting to be colonised and exploited a second time. Michael King, Being Pakeha Now
Posted on: Fri, 29 Nov 2013 22:38:24 +0000

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