Maori were the fiercest Warriors that the British Empire ever faced followed by the Gurkha then the Zulu, if you did Cambridge School Certificate that's what you would have been taught. The British never beat the Maori or the Gurkha they had to make treaties to ensure peace. Treaty of Waitangi, remember?
You are correct there was a shortage of meat in NZ hence using the alternative, long pig. They also gorged whenever food was on offer because you never knew when your next meal might arrive. They may indeed have not adjusted to Western ways in 3 or 4 generations so probably do suffer in ways due to old habits, it's not thousands of years, it's barely 200.
Most of the Maori men I have met have been men in the real sense of the word and are still formidable characters deserving of respect, I won't be getting them riled up.
You are correct there was a shortage of meat in NZ hence using the alternative, long pig. They also gorged whenever food was on offer because you never knew when your next meal might arrive. They may indeed have not adjusted to Western ways in 3 or 4 generations so probably do suffer in ways due to old habits, it's not thousands of years, it's barely 200.
Most of the Maori men I have met have been men in the real sense of the word and are still formidable characters deserving of respect, I won't be getting them riled up.
It's not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable. The hundred-times-refuted theory of "free will" owes its persistence to this charm alone; some one is always appearing who feels himself strong enough to refute it - Friedrich Nietzsche