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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.

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