The world is getting browner by the day

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Daily Reminder that the world is getting browner by the day.

>Mana Movement leader Hone Harawira: "the world is getting browner by the day.

Pākehā complaining about Māori place names just 'unwilling to try'

People kicking up a stink about planned Māori place names for a stretch of road through Kāpiti have been told to suck it up and give it a go.

The names are not unpronounceable, and people will be not be penalised for genuine attempts to say them, says Māori Party co-leader Marama Fox.

Hone Harawira, Mana Movement leader, takes it a step further, saying New Zealanders who don't like it should pack up and go somewhere with no Māori place names - like Mars.

The old State Highway 1 route through Kāpiti has been replaced with a new expressway, so sections of the former highway will be given new names as local roads. The Kapiti Coast District Council's plan is to give them Māori names, reflecting local history.

But some locals have named the plan "PC gone haywire", with Paraparaumu man Mike Judd singled out for complaining the names are too difficult to pronounce.

But Mr Harawira says people like Mr Judd are "that dinosaur generation" and Māori place names are now just "part and parcel with who we are".

"If [Mike Judd] wants that sort of colonial history, go back to England - or somewhere else perhaps, whether it's Scotland, Ireland or Wales. Go there, where there's no Māori place names," Mr Harawira said.

Attitudes against the use of Te Reo stem from a perception that "white blokes have backed off too far for too long", Mr Harawira believes.

His message to those 'white blokes' is: "Get on with it. Life is changing, the world is changing, and in case you didn't notice, it's getting browner by the day."

http://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2017/05/pakeha-complaining-about-maori-place-names-just-unwilling-to-try.html