New Zealand Basketball pre game celebration appreciation
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Yeah breh, Australia and New Zealand have just as much of a shytty history dealing with Aborigines and Maori people as the US did with Native Americans.
It would sound doper with only the Maori folks doing it
I agree they put alot more aggression into,prolly thinking about smacking there cac teammate while doing it but not enough of em to fill out the team roster,i didnt thnk maoris played basketball...I expected an all white team
dennis roadman
nuclear war in my bag
who on the NZ team actually is maori though?
I agree they put alot more aggression into,prolly thinking about smacking there cac teammate while doing it but not enough of em to fill out the team roster,i didnt thnk maoris played basketball...I expected an all white team
Steven Adams is Tongan, he could have rocked the Haka
Steven Adams is Tongan, he could have rocked the Haka
They do the sipi-tau
Only on the Coli could this turn into a race thread
Said by the same dude trying his hardest to link black people to crime in damn near every thread.
nikka was lookin
Rose's face is priceless
white dude at the front tho wasnt very intimidating, coordinated, and kind of messed up the whole thing for me lol
this is the greatest video i ever seen lmfao
shyt reminds me of when Khal Drogo ripped that dudes tongue out for some reason. 
Michael Jordan
G.O.A.T.
this the shyt the Usos do before theit tag team matches
superunknown23
Superstar
smh @ these white settlers doing native rituals after stealing their land 
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they had USA team shook, but what makes this hilarious is that they lost by 30....
Greenstrings
All Star
You have to approach this reflexively otherwise you risk overlooking the agency of Maori people in the matter. After all, the ethics of cultural appropriation boils down to who is in control.It would sound doper with only the Maori folks doing it
The dance is never done if there are no Maori people on the team. A person of Maori descent always leads the chant, the NZ Government handed intellectual property rights over the dance to the Maori people, the vast majority of whom are happy to see their culture enacted with dignity on the world stage.
Of course this doesn't address legacies of Maori abuse and mistreatment but this is one of the rare occasions where pre-existing culture has been able to mesh with nationalistic sentiment without exploitation.