tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7691816569955765239.post8051674310411603661..comments2015-08-26T21:02:11.836+12:00Comments on WWOOFing it Up in Kiwiland: organic farming in New Zealand 2012: Cannibalism and Hoani Waititi Urban Marae: my first Maori cultural visitsiipilihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16787396876911872772noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7691816569955765239.post-57371182756614001202009-09-30T21:23:22.183+13:002009-09-30T21:23:22.183+13:00It sounds like the Maori, like other cultures that...It sounds like the Maori, like other cultures that practiced cannibalism, ate only people they no longer/never did consider fully human, the same way slavery was historically justified. (I edited that from "is justified" because I have learned there is more slavery worldwide today than in the "days of slavery" and I don't even know how it's justified. The more you learn, I guess.) <br /><br />Anyways, it's just like you said about the English. We're so good at dividing ourselves between "us and them" and "good and bad" that it's so easy to be horrible to people we think as enemies or defeated or others. It's universal.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com