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Originally Posted by jaydee
I know I'm probably in the minority, but I'm a bit over it.
It's creeping into all sorts of events, even here in Oz, more and more.
I find it quite confronting and threatening.
I know, that's what it's supposed to be.
It's a war cry/dance is it not, why do they do it at funerals?
Sorry to all the Kiwis out there.
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I don’t think you need to apologise, a lot of kiwis also feel the same way.
When I was year twelve, we went on a school history trip to Anzac cove, Western Front, Ypres, Normandy etc.
Teachers wanted us to do the haka at the significant war memorials, Chanuk Bair etc. as if there was nothing more pathetic than 30 white teenagers from the more affluent inner city suburbs of Wellington at a nearly all white school doing a haka.
The only thing that could top that for cringe worthy ness is ****ed white kiwis on their OE in the UK/Europe/Canada doing the haka in a bar or street, all for attention.
I’m not bothered by it, but I’ve never got my head around the haka at war memorials and Anzac Day, its contradictory and it would be akin to dragging a woman through the front doors of a women’s refuge or sufferage centre by her hair.