30-03-2023, 07:30 AM
Yup, keeping fingers crossed for lilith today, diagnosis appointments are always a bit stressful.
Maori aren't just too well represented in those stats, but also in the poverty and deprivation ones. The abuse ones, the mental health ones, the child health ones, the longevity ones - in fact just about all the negative ones. And when that is taken into account you can see why they might be reluctant to do pakeha stuff that isn't designed with them in mind. Interestingly enough it is a common response across human communities that have been dislocated from their culture, history, and territories by colonisation and wars. Not just our tangata whenua, even the Scots and the Irish show similar communal scarring if you look for it.
We humans need 'our people' in really deep ways.
Maori aren't just too well represented in those stats, but also in the poverty and deprivation ones. The abuse ones, the mental health ones, the child health ones, the longevity ones - in fact just about all the negative ones. And when that is taken into account you can see why they might be reluctant to do pakeha stuff that isn't designed with them in mind. Interestingly enough it is a common response across human communities that have been dislocated from their culture, history, and territories by colonisation and wars. Not just our tangata whenua, even the Scots and the Irish show similar communal scarring if you look for it.
We humans need 'our people' in really deep ways.