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Seen as we’re on the slippery slip of race today:
I’m very involved in the Rotorua community which is predominantly Māori. What I always notice is Māori are a lot more family and community orientated in their thinking and time as opposed to other cultures which are more individualistic.
There are positives and negatives to this cultural observation.
Now if we accept that outcomes are predicated by the inputs, there is no way we will end up with similar outcomes when culturally we have vastly different priorities.
The attempts to skew policy and advantage groups to give equal outcomes seems fraught and destined to fail in the longer term if you don’t equalise the underlying differences that make up each culture.To change outcomes fundamentally you need to change the people.
Do Māori want to be more individualistic (eg more personal responsibility for their own individual health) if it means losing the communal community mindset that makes them happy? That’s the only way I see equal outcomes. Or should we be happy with differences and accept we will have different outcomes?
The whole issues is when cultures say they want to keep different cultural priorities but expect the same outcomes that different priorities deliver.
Flowing on from this, the focus is always on negative Māori outcomes. But there are lots of outcomes where Māori have better outcomes that we don’t highlight. More secure within their family unit; more loved; better family and community supported; etc than other cultures. Would Māori trade this for better individualistic outcomes?
Just my thought for the day.
I’m very involved in the Rotorua community which is predominantly Māori. What I always notice is Māori are a lot more family and community orientated in their thinking and time as opposed to other cultures which are more individualistic.
There are positives and negatives to this cultural observation.
Now if we accept that outcomes are predicated by the inputs, there is no way we will end up with similar outcomes when culturally we have vastly different priorities.
The attempts to skew policy and advantage groups to give equal outcomes seems fraught and destined to fail in the longer term if you don’t equalise the underlying differences that make up each culture.To change outcomes fundamentally you need to change the people.
Do Māori want to be more individualistic (eg more personal responsibility for their own individual health) if it means losing the communal community mindset that makes them happy? That’s the only way I see equal outcomes. Or should we be happy with differences and accept we will have different outcomes?
The whole issues is when cultures say they want to keep different cultural priorities but expect the same outcomes that different priorities deliver.
Flowing on from this, the focus is always on negative Māori outcomes. But there are lots of outcomes where Māori have better outcomes that we don’t highlight. More secure within their family unit; more loved; better family and community supported; etc than other cultures. Would Māori trade this for better individualistic outcomes?
Just my thought for the day.
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