Comments by "MountainMaid" (@MountainMaid238) on "Q+A with Jack Tame"
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@neil3488 I'm wondering if Savage is older and remembers a time nanny's would slap you for being insolent or whatever, because it's illegal now and uncommon. I think you've misunderstood Savage and what he was conveying. He was attempting to warn of what ignorance COULD (or used to) entail. Are you in Aotearoa New Zealand?
Also I found this, it's very long:
For researchers searching for new disease-causing genes, a person’s ethnicity may be relevant if it means environmental factors such as poverty, discrimination, or chemical exposures influence the person’s health. And scientists studying human evolution may need to include the geographic location where samples were collected to help trace a group’s history, for instance (science.org)", which explains why doctors still find ethnicity a useful tool, and "The one research area in which a person’s perceived or self-identified race may be relevant, the report says, is for studies of health disparities, where racial categories can often serve as a proxy for how structural racism—societywide policies that result in disadvantages to certain groups of people, often on the basis of race—affects an individual’s health or leads to inequities in the medical care they receive" which is exactly the problem we have in our country today.
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@neil3488 Neil, you might need to get off your bum or go put thousands of dollars into research to get the evidenced 'examples' you keep asking everyday Aotearoa-ians for. I suspect many of the replies you're receiving are from Māori - meaning you're receiving real-world real-lived examples.
Take me for example, an Indigenous Māori wāhine. After 20 bloody years of trying to convince various doctor's that something was up with me, and I'm not just 'overwhelmed' - I'm still paying off my psychiatrist bill who diagnosed my sadly obvious severe ADHD. Now the cocktail of meds doctor's have had me on has halved, because it wasn't this or that - it was ADHD. Which I stand on all Māori lives is a common trait in ethnic Māori. I call it the Kupe gene - because sensitive brains that are dopamine starved are constantly looking for a feed so are noticing the smallest of changes. Because change, different, new equals interesting and worthy of exploration to low-dopamine brain. Hence why Māori are traditional movers. Now put those exquisite brains in a classroom for 6 hours. And this is just another way the generalisation that me and my body works the same as the 18 year old Pākeha girl, or the 84 year old Indian lady sitting next me - we all get the same mental health generalisation. I call BS. All my health diagnostics takes years if not decades, thousands of dollars, and worsening symptoms later. Because people like me don't get listened to, or are told that my symptoms are in my mind because 'generally' my life and body need to tick the boxes they're working with.
Now, back at it and how this is related. Te Tīriti, the document signed by over 500 ancestors trying to look out for future humans living on this land, recognized that these new people and their systems weren't gonna work for us then (and 200 years of evidence shows that they were right), and decided on a framework that protects Māori to be Māori (however that looks and when, because Māori are dynamic and know it (even if non-Māori don't get it. Ahem)), and anyone else can have who they are protected under the new lot coming in. HOWEVER, not written but implied is that under Tikanga, which exists under the Māori part of Te Tīriti - to engage with Māori in this country, all parts of you must make connection with all parts of me - a broader view of the Hongi. Only then can we truly meet as equals and work together authentically.
Te Tīriti is already about treating people as equals. The Principles as defined by Seymour is about making everyone the same as defined by him. No thank you.
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