Keep me from writing academic papers about Bionicle and cultural appropriation and colonialism
Should I write up about why calling the Matoran "Tohunga" was that bad and not just people getting offended over nothing?
I mean, I write enough about colonialism and its adverse effects on indigenous peoples enough for school and usually it makes me super depressed because it's a super depressing subject, but part of me really wants to write a whole paper about it and I'm already looking up sources. Most of which are behind a paywall. >_>
I'm also a little afraid that it'll make me a bit of a target? I know how the Maori were treated on this site when they came to complain and explain their grievances, and I don't know if I trust some of the people on this site to not make a huge fuss over it and yell about political correctness and be kind of sort of racist? But I also think said people should be educated to understand why cultural appropriation is bad? I don't know.
But here's a pretty brief overview of what the big deal was. http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/rongoa-medicinal-use-of-plants/page-5
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