I know that woke started in the United* States but it must surely have been some Americans who had holidayed in New Zealand. There's just no way that we didn't have a part to play in this. I mean look at this plonker;
"The tattoos on his face show who he is, signifying his family, craft, and the journey he has taken following drug addiction, Robinson, Poutini Ngāi Tahu, said.". For those who don't know Ngai Tahu is the main local tribe in the South Island although they are colonizers from the North Island (I think Tasman might have told them about the South Island as they ventured to it after he'd visited). Most of the ones in charge of Ngai Tahu look about as Maori as Caleb does exceps sans the mokos. They're only popular with the mostly white upper middle classes of Auckland as most Ngai Tahu members don't like them as they've kept the dosh for themselves (of course they have). Also I should add that Timaru currently has issues with gang members emigrating there and that Caleb likely presents as one.
Poutini means 'guardian' or a 'protector' by the way and definitely not whore as it (more or less) is in French (just ask Vlad).
So he already has tabs on himself, although probably the 'poutini' (LOL, whore..., LOL) came from the moko. But I know Robinson is a Scottish name because my grandmother was a Robinson (on edit: oops Robertson). I also know that they were related to the Owens, who were also Scottish despite the Welsh name, and that they owned a pub on the West Caost a few decades in the late 19th C where Caleb (also a Scottish name it seems to me) comes from. So we are probably related as there's not too many Robinsons (or Robertsons….) on the West Coast I'm sure
So sorry about that albeit I think that my Owen grampa & my Robinson Robertson grandma met in Taranaki (and albeit that my mother was adopted into this family the other birth side is Scottish as well except from Ireland...ah it gets complicated...).
And yes there are some Maori in our wider family but not my cousins it seems as they have told me that "there's no bro there" (their words not mine). I had thought that their mother was Ngai Tahu like Caleb [claims to be]. But supposedly not.
But back on topic, where's your kilt & bagpipes Caleb?
This kind of leads me to the other story that played out in the last week where New Zealanders showed themselves to be pain in the arses generally on the world stage.
That Kiwi wasn’t even born in New Zealand, it was gifted from Seattle Zoo. It’s about as much a New Zealander as my Canadian cousins are (i.e. not at all) even if their grandfather was (Arnold). Even my wife, not a NZr, thought that the Florida zoo was at fault (she needs to get out of the country a bit more......).
Feck that. It was fecking New Zealand humans who were at fault as they set out to "[educate as this] was the best way for people to understand kiwi [exceptionalism as] we understand the thinking of other people." (some liberties may have been taken in the translation from Caleb's kiwi but it's true to form).
Oh no!
(cute Miami, cute)
Listen to me, I’m a NZr so I’m an expert.
The wokest cartoonist in the world bar none. So expert.
We're an arrogant bunch of arseholes. So you see now don't you, Jacinda was no mistake. Avoid us like the plague (LOL).
BTW, although I was just a kid at the time, I knew the guy who started the Kiwi enclosure in Otorohanga. He was Welsh as in, born in Wales. Makes me wonder if his surviving (he died of cancer in his 50s) wife, Jocelyn, who used to work for my Grandma (Robinson as above) is still alive.
* that's quite the claim
"get educated" and show respect... You know, the last time I checked, respect usually has to be earned. Prison gangs tattoo themselves as well, up to and including how many people they've killed, etc. Am I supposed to just blindly have some kind of awe and respect for them as well? I grow weary of narcissists in our society demanding that we look at them and "respect" them when all they have done is put a mark on their body, had their genitalia mutilated, are wearing weird clothes or a wig, are driving a vehicle with an exhaust system that shakes people's homes when they drive by, etc. I respect people who actually are doing something to improve the lives of others and are living a good clean life, etc. Give me a *reason* to respect you and I'll be happy to do so. Otherwise, as far as I'm concerned, you are just another human being on the planet that takes a steaming stinking dump every day just like the rest of us.
I thought NZers were proud to be cuter than Australians. Ozzies are such boors abroad, who wouldn't want to be. Sex not Six, I was told repeatedly. We're watching Brokenwood series, need a translation half the time.