Ruban Nielson: I appreciate being Polynesian more than I did when I was there. They’re like, ‘Oh, you’ve done so well, haven’t you? For how you grew up. And then I go back to New Zealand as a person who’s older and somewhat accomplished in their field and I still get treated worse! It’s like people want to remind you – ‘Yeah, but you’re still Polynesian, so…’ It was one of the things I liked when I moved here it’s like nobody knows what you are so they give you the benefit of the doubt. Ruban Nielson: I didn’t even realise how light my skin was until I came (to the US). It’s not even a colour thing – like, ‘Oh, there’s a black person.’ It’s, ‘If you’re Poly then you’re getting profiled.’ There’s still profiling when it comes to Polynesians. People just flat-out refuse to pronounce Maori names properly. I mean, I think New Zealand is the best place on the planet, but it’s a racist place. I think I’ve got quite an idealised vision of New Zealand as like Australia without the racism and the blokeish sense of humour… And then one day one of the owners asked me if I sniffed glue – like, ‘Are you a glue-sniffer?’ ( Ruban laughs) In my head I was like, ‘Motherfucker, you grew up with my mum!’ And I knew for sure that he didn’t ask other kids in the store if they were glue-sniffers. Growing up it was very normal to go into a store and they would say, ‘What do you want?’ And you’d be like, ( muttering) ‘I’m just looking at chips, man.’ I remember getting a job at a dairy and they would never give me a job at the till, I was always at the back washing vegetables. Does this chime with your own experiences, Taika? Ruban, I read an interview where you said that growing up half-Polynesian in New Zealand was to be ‘ the kid a shop owner will follow around’. It’s the same with our art and cinema – we can afford to be bold and do outlandish shit because we all know what the alternative is, which is basically being in New Zealand. Taika Waititi: We have a very strong metre around being too earnest or cheesy because we all grew up the same in New Zealand and you want to make sure your friends aren’t gonna mock you for doing stuff! ( laughs) It’s like, ‘There’s got to be a cool way of saying something – I’m not going to scream out, “I love you!”’ You’ve got to do it in a cool, funny, sarcastic way. There’s definitely a mentality of ‘I’m stuck here and I’m not going to get out’ that informs the stuff we make, there’s kind of a cool darkness to it. We’re good observers, because we come from a place where basically nothing happens. Taika Waititi: Yeah, and New Zealanders are, like, experts in cynicism. I thought that Bob Marley was from Ruatoria and I heard that Michael Jackson was a local! We also used to think Bob Marley and Michael Jackson were Maori. Taika Waititi: It was scary, man, it was scary. This came from an interview with English magazine ‘Dazed and Confused: Unknown Mortal Orchestra & Taika Waititi on New Zealand culture – some extracts: I haven’t had to experience the sort of racism he describes, but have had to deal with prejudices. Taika Waititi has stirred things up by saying that while New Zealand is “the best place on the planet” it is also “racist as fuck”. and in cuttingĭown in uno s- c- а^ог" pomaria 2 piros Ü" 2 pomos Í3" in prad' al' pomar'. 6 piros У ю pomos, in alii s poma r Us 7 piros W io pomos. A General Abridgment of Law and Equity: Alphabetically Digested Under Proper by Charles Viner (1792) Village of Carrar, where is what they call the tomb of Noah."Ħ. JANUARY 1, 1826.-I rode into the plain to shoot, and up to the little Excursions in the Holy Land, Egypt, Nubia, Syria, &c: Including a Visit to by John Madox (1834) "Of the former he says: " The pomos consist of a great number of tribes or littleīands, sometimes one in a valley, sometimes three or four, clustered in the. History of Napa and Lake Counties, California: Comprising Their Geography by Slocum, Bowen & Co, Bowen & Co Slocum (1881) "The pomos consist of ' a great number of tribes or little bands, sometimes oneĤ. The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft by Hubert Howe Bancroft (1886) Living in Potter Valley, a short distance northwest of Clear Lake."ģ. "Powers considers as the nucleus of the numerous Porno tribes the Pome pomos, The Magazine of American History with Notes and Queries by John Austin Stevens, Benjamin Franklin DeCosta, Martha Joanna Lamb, Henry Phelps Johnston, Nathan Gilbert Pond, William Abbatt (1877) In a valley, sometimes three or four, clustered in the region where the. "The pomos consist of ' a great number of tribes or little handj, sometimes one The Native Races: Of the Pacific States by Hubert Howe Bancroft (1886) Lexicographical Neighbors of Pomos pommelsīelow you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:ġ.
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