Thread: Toponymic Indigenism

This guy is another White libtard that’s gone native and a vote for him is a vote for the Maori agenda. His wife is a Maori and is the head teacher of the only total immersion Maori language childhood centre in Gisborne

image of Tarsh Koia

She is the one with the laptop

So the guy is clearly a race mixer and his pet projects while in office include leading a national research project looking at traditional rites of passage that were the signs a Maori child has transitioned into adulthood, and how we might adapt those traditions for youth today.
Also he is the treasurer for the Rongo i te Kai Marae located in Waiapu Rd, Makarika

I guess he is working for the interests of some of his constituents well the brown ones at least.

As for promoting Maori language what a waste of time and money, most of his brown constituents can barely read and write in English. This language is the lingua franca for international trade and diplomacy in much of the world. How many of our trading partners and military allies have diplomats that can speak Maori? Let me guess none.
How many countries other than New Zealand is Maori spoken? Answer none.

It’s a hard enough job for teachers in this country to teach Maoris at all without wasting time on a useless language most people in New Zealand aren’t interested in learning.

Hans Günther wrote: "This guy is another White libtard that’s gone native and a vote for him is a vote for the Maori agenda."

It would indeed seem with respect to his proposal as regards the name "Poverty Bay", that Manu Caddie is not making any explicit claim of indigeneity for himself. The question as to the degree, if any, that he regards himself as indigenous would seem to be a relevant consideration in analysing his political activism. In this connection, I note that his name "Manu" might be reasonably assumed to be Maori (cf. Manu Bennett) and a photograph has been uploaded to Wikipedia (see below) which has associated with it the following comment:

"This photograph is of the Tauranga Moana kapahaka group He Toa Takatini (HTT). Marama Dey was the manager of the group and they performed at a range of music festivals as well as overseas and at Tauranga Historic Village on Sunday afternoons. The man in the glasses and beard is my father Graham Caddie, my sister Naera Caddie is the small blonde girl in the middle and I am the 8 year old boy on the far right.

Manu Caddie, August 2010 manu[at]ahi.co.nz —Preceding unsigned comment added by 166.179.82.98 (talk) 09:37, 14 August 2010 (UTC)"

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Principals back compulsory te reo

LAIRD HARPER Last updated 05:00 02/05/2012


Support for compulsory teaching of te reo [Maori} in schools is gathering momentum in Taranaki.

Trade Minister Tim Groser has called for the Maori language to be made mandatory for all school children in a bid to offer them different cultural perspectives.
While politicians argue the pros and cons, principals who talked to the Taranaki Daily News are siding with Mr Groser.
At Stratford Primary School the concept was already in practice.
Principal Kelvin Squire said it was a natural by-product of globalisation.

He said a te reo class was already compulsory for his students because it was "an essential learning area".
"It's about engagement with our country and it's also building on the children's brain development," Mr Squire said.

"Why should New Zealand 5-year-olds be any different to the Swiss who can speak Swiss-German, German and Austrian?"

Principals back compulsory te reo | Stuff.co.nz

Originally Posted by McMurdo

Hans Günther wrote: "This guy is another White libtard that’s gone native and a vote for him is a vote for the Maori agenda."

It would indeed seem with respect to his proposal as regards the name "Poverty Bay", that Manu Caddie is not making any explicit claim of indigeneity for himself. The question as to the degree, if any, that he regards himself as indigenous would seem to be a relevant consideration in analysing his political activism. In this connection, I note that his name "Manu" might be reasonably assumed to be Maori (cf. Manu Bennett) and a photograph has been uploaded to Wikipedia (see below) which has associated with it the following comment:

"This photograph is of the Tauranga Moana kapahaka group He Toa Takatini (HTT). Marama Dey was the manager of the group and they performed at a range of music festivals as well as overseas and at Tauranga Historic Village on Sunday afternoons. The man in the glasses and beard is my father Graham Caddie, my sister Naera Caddie is the small blonde girl in the middle and I am the 8 year old boy on the far right.

Manu Caddie, August 2010 manu[at]ahi.co.nz —Preceding unsigned comment added by 166.179.82.98 (talk) 09:37, 14 August 2010 (UTC)"

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File:1981 Maori Culture group. Photographer Paul Gilbert.jpg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Manu Caddie is a man with White ancestry who has bedded down with a Maori woman and has become an advocate for the Maori people and their agenda. Whether he considers himself indigenous or not he is clearly in their camp.
As for the poverty bay naming debate, this is part of a trend to replace European place names in New Zealand with Maori ones such as the attempt to rename Mt Egmont to Mt Taranaki and Mt Cook to Mt Aoraki.
This is an attack of the language of the White settlers who made this nation and undervalues their cultural view of New Zealand. Most people in this country are White and their language is English.

This brown washing of our nations place names is also an insult to the many cartographers, surveyors, and explorers of the colonial period who provided much of our knowledge of New Zealand’s geography. And by convention named the places they discovered.
The small number of Maori who can speak their own language can call these places what they wish. However I at least will use the names and language of my ancestors who colonized this land just as the Maori wish to do so.