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Friday, 6 March 2020

Time to Start

Hi all you readers out there,

I'm back and its time to start that Lv3 History work but I kinda of forgotten it a bit, so I need to review my work first....... and done, I've looked at my past work but I'm not sure how to  blog about the effects European theories had on the native people of New Zealand, The Maori, analytical.

I guess I should go through the theory's first


Belief/theory
Background
Main ideas
How would this affect European behaviour?
How would this affect Maori behaviour?
“Noble Savage”
Rousseau - philosophy
Europeans see themselves as corrupt
Treat them like an endangered species
Ignore them
Jealous
Might be frustrated/angry
“Ignoble Savage”
Cannibalism
Europeans being attacked
Maori are bloodthirsty and not to be trusted
Maori blamed more; Europeans wary of Maori
Scared
More violent towards Maori
Maori feel more powerful
Protect themselves more
Monogenism
Biblical
Single ancestor, but some people are better than others  
See Maori as distant relations
Treat Maori worse
Some feel obliged to ‘help Maori’
Some might accept this

Polygenism
Self-made theories?
Every race is a different breed of human being
Maori will fall back to their old ways given the chance
No point ‘helping’ Maori

Social Darwinism
Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
Strong races survive
Maori are a ‘dying race’
Hard racism
Hierarchy of races
Leave Maori to die off
Probably Maori would not engage with this idea
Fatal Impact
Social 
Looking at what Europeans bring to NZ
Without contact with Europeans, Maori would not be in a bad state
Might make Europeans change the way they behave
Might be racist towards Europeans?
Aryan Maori
Edward Tregear The Aryan Maori 
Maori are Aryan
Racial harmony
Similar to Monogenism
With ‘master-race’ tones
Accepted this theory (Peter Buck)
Anti-Capitalist Maori
Urbanisation
Maori can’t cope with move to urban areas
Polygenism in 20th Century
Anger
“Once Were Warriors”
Maori Battalion
Maori only good at fighting
Stereotyping Maori


all of these theory are based on trust, faith and semi to complete lack of evidence (kinda like a world famous book) so if based on flimsy foundation why did Europeans believe in this theories, while its important to understand that every European who came to New Zealand didn't believe in every and or any of these theories. Now back to the question, for the Europeans who did believe in these or a theory, why believe them. these theories were backed up by or from famous people and influences who the Europeans trusted. (see background column)
As pointed out by Lv3 History Class mates it kinda like sheep flowing the most influential and trustworthy information source that they believe in. so even before coming to New Zealand Europeans could have already set there theory's in stone.
Now these theory are basically the same to each other on some levels but I can see that some of them as building of each other. for example 'Monogenism' and the 'Aryan Maori' both see humans as decedents of a single ancestor and that the Europeans should help the Maori's

1 comment:

  1. Keep building on this, Marvin - what other inferences can you make? How would you rate these theories? If you can keep pushing these theories to the 'next level' it will help you develop analytical skills.

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