Let’s not talk about the wars they had with neighbouring tribes… Let’s not talk about the cannibalism carried out after raids on the enemy… Let’s not talk about the infanticide within families…. lets not talk about slavery of their enemies for labour and later feasts…. Trading in shrunken heads if their tattoos were worthy… I could go on…. History is ugly…. No matter where you come from… Let’s learn from it not hide it or change it…
so, the written history must be discarded and replaced by the history that was passed on orally by, essentially, illiterate savages. and you expect a balance in, as you suggest, 100 years?? what utter nonsense!
if that path would be followed all the edmonds cooking books (best-seller in new zealand to date) would be confined to te papa as relics from a civilized past and, in bookshops, replaced by cannibalistic recipes on how to boil / cook your captives.
the stock exchange as we know it now (shares in fonterra, for example) would feature wealth in terms of size and weight of slaves captured (rodney would be a prize asset where as don would hardly feature.....unsure about michael; but his…
And familial violence and or neglect or other abuse today?......
Let’s not talk about the wars they had with neighbouring tribes… Let’s not talk about the cannibalism carried out after raids on the enemy… Let’s not talk about the infanticide within families…. lets not talk about slavery of their enemies for labour and later feasts…. Trading in shrunken heads if their tattoos were worthy… I could go on…. History is ugly…. No matter where you come from… Let’s learn from it not hide it or change it…