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Seriously, it feels like no one except people in NZ and Aussie know about the Maori culture. Is there really no one who knows about us? D: 

Maori:

Referring to the aboriginal people of New Zealand and neighboring islands.

They are quite vicious, and worship a single deity: 3x Wiggle.

Read this.

Cool, I have a papa. But what does that have to do with Maori? Does my grandpa posses some kind of power 0_0

Ranginui and papatuanuku. No your Granddad does not posses godly powers.

Awwwwww!

Besides reading how much your people were slaughtered and constantly getting beaten by Westerners, no.

Enlighten me.

How about posting the image to an image-hosting site, getting the image location, and then posting that into the <a href="sampleurl.com"> or <img src="sampleurl.com/something.gif"> in the Source button?

Who did what now?

In colloquial English :

I can't see your the pict.

O, me see m8. Eye um gluing to rekt THUT out.

Whoops.

Was that the position of every single pixel in a picture you were linking? And the letters representing what color they were? Cause that would've been a lot of fun for me to try drawing that out over the next ten years. Ye know, another side project.

*sigh* Fucked that up.

Didn't know about them till now.

Watch this

Almost all of those can be applied to foreigners who speak different languages.

People tend to know more about cultures they're geographically proximal to. But I'm sure I'm not the only one who'd be curious to hear more about your culture. What's it like to be Maori?

Its that sort of thing when you walk past another Maori guy and say hi and hug them, then someone asks if you know them and you say no. Just like a huge family.

Wow, that IS awesome. Being in the Northern US, we don't even smile & nod at strangers by default. If you do, it sometimes confuses people, like they think they must know you.

Okay, MOST important question about any culture, as an outsider... how's your food? :D

(I live in a city that's really more of a town, but our food is awesome. Like, the Chinese place across from where I work does generic American Chinese, buuut they have a gourmet menu with lots of locally-sourced ingredients & amazing fusion flavor. Unless cilantro is secretly from China, which I guess it could be, for all I know...)

XD it's actually called Chinese parsley in some places.  Coriander grows all over the place.

XD

Figures. Never tasted it in any standard American Chinese dish, though. But they do a stuffed eggplant dish, seasoned with I don't even know what, besides my ability to recognize cilantro, and it is aMAZing.

Their "standard" dishes all have a pretty heavy hand with the ginger, which I also approve of. And then there's Taipei & Tokyo, Osaka, Moshi Moshi... yeah, I have like four favorite Asian restaurants. Oh wait, and the Thai place. We've also got Tibetan, Moroccan, Indian obviously, Mexican in both authentic and super Americanized versions, both super tasty... oh, and there's the new Vietnamese place I haven't gotten around to trying yet...

...yeah, now I've gone and made myself hungry. XD

Fried bread, butter and cream in everything, always having hangi's... really it is great. :D

:D

Wait, are you one of the "bigger = more beautiful" cultures? Like, women should have curves, and not be stick figures with boobs tacked on? I mean... I kinda AM stick-figure-plus-boobs... or was, before I gained 30 lb. But as a standard, it kinda sucks, IMHO.

I will admit, while not necessarily a... "chubby chaser," I have a certain fondness for those cultures. I've seen some really sexy curvy ladies ... and as long as you're not suffering health issues, nothin' wrong with having a little more to hold at night, y'know? (I like to cuddle as much as the next sensitive soul. Sticks are no fun for cuddling imho, soft bellies and boobs are better pillows.)

This. So much this. I was suuuuper skinny even into my late twenties, and it was so nice that my first partner was on the larger side of the spectrum. She had many other virtues, of course... but ever since I've had an eye for curves. <3

(Okay, laptop, stop freaking out. Thx.)

<3 Mm. I have noticed it tends to work well if people are on opposing sides of the spectrum, which... is why it kind of baffles me that people are often shocked to see such couples. Screw society, though, as long as both parties involved are happy. (Huzzah for curvy cuties / teddybears boys.)

The sense of community must be nice. Hell, in a perfect world, we'd all be like that, imho.

Yeah it is great. :D 

Aren't they the guys that invented the term 'Mana' as it applies to a store of magic energy juices, or was that just how it came out in translation?

I was a fan of Deadliest Warrior for a while and one episode had traditional Maori warrior weapons / skills vs. Shaolin monks. It was a good one. The culture was addressed, somewhat. In short, yes--I've looked into Maori culture, just not your current day culture.

I remember that one, haha. When he said "The Shaolin might've won, but y'know what? That computer's probably Chinese!" was the first time I was ever able to laugh at a TV when I was alone in my house in a long time. I haven't been able to do it before or since, actually.

You guys are fantastic - from an Aussie

Yes, we are amazing. But not at all humble or modest! XD

So, if you're from an aboriginal culture, that means you're less like

and more like

right?

I'm sure they'd be neither. I mean, aboriginees aren't known for looking especially fuzzy or domesticated.

Good point.

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They're joking, Mason. No need to drop your pickles.

I know, I was just like *awkward silence*. No need to get into a fight :D

Well i'm part South African as well, which is why i have white and black hair and white and black tails.

"Racist"

(Jk)

I didn't know much about Maori culture until you informed me about it.

Maoris are like the cool Abos :L