For some kind of reason, I find this image of New Zeelanders celebrating the win of Moss Burmeister (news),while performing a Maori dance, highly comical. Maybe it illustrates that our great western ‘civilized’ culture is just a mash-up of cultures that were conquered the last couple of centuries. Or more specific, the question is, particularly when seeing the New Zeeland rugby teams perform the Maori Haka (Google video), which culture conquered which one?
- Wikipedia’s ‘Haka’ entry
- The All Blacks website discussing the Haka.