NZ Report: Present Life of Maori

I’ll explain about present life of Maori. In the past, Maori’s life was inconvenient, but then, how about now? I will introduce present Maori life with three points, compare with past life, problem of life, and crimes.

First, Let us compare with past and present life. Before, Maori wore traditional costume made by fur or something from animal. Now, they are wearing clothes like european for example jeans, T-shirts, and jackets. So in NZ, if you see the Maori, you cannot notice them because they have any differences to other New Zealanders; for example, European, Asian and all people living in New Zealand. But some Maori still have great tattoos, it represent their fore father, family, sometimes appeals to their forth. If a person has great tattoos, perhaps you may notice that they are Maori.
In the past, Maori lived the house made by wood but now living normal house made by concrete. All their buildings include the hall which Maori’s meeting is hold is also all made by concrete now. Even during the meeting of elder, they wear normal clothes and the meeting is hold at the hall made by concrete. Elders use forks and knives when they eat traditional food, in spite of during the meeting, and almost elders come to the hall by plane or their own car. Now they use gas, electricity, and use money as same as us.
But Maori are not still run out of their greeting manner and culture in their mind. It is impossible for other races like Hawaiian to remain traditional culture. Even now when Maori meet, there are no relationships that person is man or woman, young or old, wearing costume or not. They always greet with touch their noses each other, and it’s called Hongi.

Next, I’ll tell you some problems of Maori. In the past, Maori lived as self-sufficient life, but recently the rate of self-sufficiency is decreasing. It means Maori have to depend on using money. So they earn money to live by farming, agriculture, and fishing, called primary industry, but they cannot do it because Maori have contracted with white people as Treaty of Waitangi. So Maori have no places to work as farmer. Fortunately, if they have wide place, but milk is so cheap in NZ and sheep is trade as almost prime cost. So young Maori go to city to earn money, but they cannot take a good job, because Maori could not take enough education. They can only work for the places which belong to the working class or part time job for example, cheap salary plant or convenience store. They cannot earn much money if they go to city.

At last I will talk about Maori’s crime. In the city, young Maori who couldn’t earn much money or fried their job become delinquent and commit a crime, for example theft or robber. Now in New Zealand, half of all prisoners are Maori people and 45% of crimes are caused by Maori. Maori is only 15% of all population, this is a too much number.

In my conclusion, Maori culture and people are very important part of New Zealand but now they have a lot of problems. I think these problems are decline traditional culture. I think New Zealand solve the problems, and also should reduce crimes of Maori to save their important culture and life.

presentation

Hi, I’m Keito. I’ll show you some information about present life of Maori with three points, compare with past lirfe, problem of life and crimes.

First, let us compare with past and present life. Before, Maori wearing costume. Now, they are wearing normal clothes. So in NZ, if you see the Maori, you cannot notice them because they have any differences to other New Zealanders. But some Maori still have great tattoos like this picture.
In the past, Maori lived the house made by wood, but now living normal house made by concrete. Look at this picture. This is the picture of hall which Maori’s meeting is hold. This meeting house is all made by concrete without carving like Tiki. Even during the meeting of elder, they wear clothes and the meeting is hold at the hall made by concrete.
Even Elders use folks and knives when they eat traditional food, in spite of during the meeting, and almost elders come to the hall by plane or their own car. Now they use gas, electricity, and use money as same as us.

But Maori are not still run out of their greeting manner and culture in their mind. It is impossible for other races like Hawaiian to remain traditional culture. Even now when Maori meet, there are no relationships that person is man or woman, young or old, wearing costume or not. They always greet with touch their noses each other, and it’s called Hongi.

Next, I’ll show you some problems of Maori.
In the past, Maori lived as self-sufficient life, but recently the rate of self-sufficiency is decreasing. It means Maori have to depend on using money. So they earn money to live by farming, agriculture, and fishing, called primary industry, but they cannot do it

Because Maori have contracted with white people as Treaty of Waitangi. So Maori have no places to work as farmer. Fortunately, they have wide place, but milk is so cheap in NZ and sheep is trade as almost prime cost.
So young Maori go to city to earn money, but they cannot take the job, because Maori could not take enough education.


So young Maori become delinquent and commit a crime, for example theft or robber. Please look at this left graph. This graph shows all prisoners in NZ. Half of all prisoners are Maori people. And right graph shows all offenders of crime in NZ. 45% of crimes are caused by Maori. Maori is only 15% of all population in NZ, this is a too much number.

Maori have unique culture, and affect to NZ people, but Maori cause a lot of crimes. I think New Zealand government should save Maori culture, and also should reduce crimes of Maori to save their culture and life.

Thank you for listening to our presentation.
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settlers

I will tell you some information about Maori lifestyle.

Maori is the oldest settler in New Zealand. They wear traditional costume, but not looks like costume of other tribes, because New Zealand is not so hot. Maori sometimes wore thick clothes made by birds feather or sheep. They have great tatoos in their body, and it represent their family or tribes and so on. Some are appeals to their force.

They lived house made by wood, and some houses have carving called Tiki in front of their house. They have two houses, in summer they live normal house but in winter, they live which half of house is under ground because it is hotter than normal house. And they sometimes held the meeting at meeting hall, that is also made by wood.

They eat fishes, beans, fruits, and so on. They also eat meat for example lamb, but some are became cannibal. Cannibal means "people who eats human flesh". But they did not eat families or their friend. They ate people from Europe or member of other tribes or groups after the fight or war. They are basically lived by self-sufficiency, but recently Maori use money and buy foods or goods which they need.

Introduction

I'll write about Auckland. Auckland has the biggest population in New Zealand, and called "city of sail".So in habor of Auck land, there are often so many yachts and Auckland is for famous for sports and activities related to the sea. Yacht race is one of famous sport. In the past, big race called Louis Vuitton Cup is held at Auckland. This race decide a the world champion of the yacht race, a lot of visitors came to watch the race. In the race, NZ team won twice and became world champion twice.

For visitor sea sea is become one of the best activities, for example, boat cruise. If you cruise to the sea you can enjoy the great view like islands, fiord and also sky. If you cruise at night, you can sea beautiful lights of cities. You can cruise not only sea, but also cruise to river in the city. If you ruise to city, there is another fun differ from sea cruise.

In Auckland, there are another famous sports. If want to watch it, you should go to Eden Park to watch Rugby or Cricket games. Rugby is famous sports in NZ, and rugby national team, All Blacks is strong team in the world. All Black is famous for dance Maori's traditional dance, Haka before the game.