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  "description": "Have you ever heard the term inverse acculturation? New Zealand is undergoing it.",
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  "publishedAt": "2026-03-02T21:30:00.000Z",
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  "textContent": "**Pee Kay**\n _No Minister_\n\nFor hundreds of years it has been possible for humans to travel across continents but it was not until recently that cheap long-distance air travel, greater affluence in developing countries and information becoming easily accessible, that modern humans are able to migrate on the massive scale we see today.\n\nGoogle Maps and Google Street View allows us to easily familiarise ourselves with every street of a foreign city through before we even start packing our bags!\n\nHuman migration and cultural interaction have become deeply intertwined, steering global diversity, triggering, and forcing social adaptation. Migration, whether voluntary, for work or education or involuntary such as refugees, involves individuals navigating new, challenging, cultural landscapes, which requires the reshaping of identity, the changing of behaviour and the learning of new cultural norms.\n\nThis is acculturation: The process by which an individual or a group adopts, adapts, acquires and adjusts to a new, more prevalent culture by participating in aspects of the more prevalent culture. The existing social and cultural values, ideas, beliefs, and behavioural patterns of their culture of origin are adjusted to include those of a different culture.\n\nAcculturation can be a positive experience that leads to increased understanding and tolerance of different cultures. But it can also result in negative outcomes such as prejudice and discrimination.\n\nBut have you ever heard the term inverse acculturation? Inverse acculturation? Never heard of it?\n\nI am proposing New Zealand is undergoing a period of inverse acculturation.\n\nSo just what is inverse acculturation?\n\nA recent phenomenon, inverse acculturation describes the change in direction of the acculturation process. The long established culture finds itself being edged out and the nations character turns back towards the culture of origin.\n\nSimply put, inverse acculturation is where the majority are required to adopt the cultural values and norms of a minority.\n\nMmm, starting to sound a bit familiar now?\n\nInverse acculturation or versions of it are seen in many middle-eastern countries where tribalism and ‘ethnic cleansing’ is the norm.\n\nSharia law and other means of acculturating the majority are common in many Muslim countries.\n\nIn the UK its liberal democracy is being severely tested as concerns are raised about the takeover or spread of sharia law dispensed by sharia councils. Sharia councils hold no statutory power, meaning their decisions cannot override UK law but they are giving it a very good try!\n\nSharia law is a highly contentious issue in the UK. Many UK citizens believe there is an orchestrated campaign to legitimise sharia law. Some question how it can be compatible with so-called British values when the Muslim population claims it’s a separate legal system operating parallel to UK laws.\n\nIs there is a premeditated strategy of inverse acculturation occurring in New Zealand?\n\nLet’s start with the name of our county. This is a classic example of minority views usurping an established and long-standing place name. Our country is called New Zealand is it not?\n\nYet the MSM spearhead the use of the fabricated name Aotearoa. Labour preface New Zealand with Aotearoa, the Greens and Māori Party only use Aotearoa and certainly most government offices rarely use the name New Zealand any more. Aotearoa is the prominent word. Aotearoa sits above New Zealand on a citizen’s most precious document, their passport!\n\nHow often are we hearing the term “By Māori – For Māori”.\n\n“By Māori – for Māori” is the catch cry of activists initiatives that are designed, owned, and delivered by Māori to empower Māori communities, strengthen Māori culture, and advance self-determination.\n\nThomas Sowell the American author, economist and social theorist wrote, “Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination.”\n\nOur education system is already in a parlous state. But here we are allowing academics and educationists to install the vision of a minority at the centre of a revised education curriculum. New Zealand’s education system now leans towards the predominantly racially distorted te ao Māori. The Māori world view!\n\nEducation and the influence exerted on young and impressionable minds is a fertile field for those wanting to realign the narrative around colonisation! Kōhanga Reo or language nests and Kura Kaupapa Māori, immersion schools, are filled with young minds fully receptive to their teachers’ words! These education settings were established with one express purpose: to ensure education is delivered through a Māori worldview!\n\nThe Ministry of Education, judging by their **“Aotearoa New Zealand Principal Eligibility Criteria”** display their support of the promotion of the Māori world view. That document states school boards must make sure anyone they appoint as principal meets their criteria.\n\nThe eligibility criteria has four pou (pillars). Leader of People, Leader of Vision for Learning and Leader of Operations. Pou Tikanga Maori has no English translation except to say that a principal will bring **“Te Tiriti o Waitangi to life as the founding document of a bicultural Aotearoa New Zealand.”**\n\nThis pillar says a principal must **“prioritise biculturalism through resourcing and funding”** and **“show commitment to understanding the impact of colonisation on education in Aotearoa.”**\n\nThe NZ Council for Educational Research plays a big part in providing the Education Ministry with new or refreshed curriculum.\n\nThey have written a five-year plan to –\n\n  1. **Decolonise education**\n  2. **Uphold mana Māori, whakamana (empowerment/validation) Māori**\n  3. **Improving equity for ākonga (students) and equity in education**\n  4. **Influencing the future of education**\n\n\n\nAnd… their chief researcher is Rose Hipkins. Mother of Chris.\n\nWe need school principals and schools who ensure students learn to read, write and count to the very best of their ability.\n\nWill decolonising education provide that?\n\nIf you aspire to work in any organisation funded to any degree by our government, (health, education, justice, welfare etc) you are now required to be knowledgeable in tikanga, undergo instruction in te reo, commit to a certain version of the Treaty of Waitangi and accept that the Treaty constitutes a legal and enforceable “partnership”.\n\nAnd what about our legal system?\n\nNew Zealand’s legal system, based on the Westminster system features a separation of powers into three branches – Legislative (Parliament) – Executive (Cabinet), and Judiciary (Courts). This system contains checks and balances so that no individual group within the government can become too powerful.\n\n _“…no individual group within the government can become too powerful.”_ Do those words remain true? Has our judicial system been hijacked?\n\nWhat is now, dangerously, permeating our legal system is tikanga Māori. Tikanga Māori, expertly and conveniently wrapped up in legalise and presented by legal Māori sovereignty activists as bijural law.\n\nBijural law is the formal description of the entwining of an established legal system (civil law or common law, as we have in New Zealand) with a supposed pre-existing law or customary law.\n\nThe interweaving of our clearly defined civil laws with customary law is where the distorting of the lines begins and the definition of a law becomes fluid.\n\nFurther perplexity is created by the claims of sovereignty activists that tikanga is always evolving, tikanga varies from tribe to tribe, tikanga is fluid and tikanga cannot be codified.\n\nThat absurdity was summed up by lawyer and former MP, Stephen Franks, who believes tikanga gives judges a license to discard certainty. He says:\n\n> _What we are doing is licensing our judges to decide cases on how they feel and not according to law. Because it is unwritten, tikanga is easily invented to suit and you can’t subject it to the normal rationality constraints._\n\nChief Justice Dame Helen Winkelmann says Te Tiriti o Waitangi is an integral part of New Zealand’s legal system and hailed the “historic” move last year to make teaching of tikanga in the nation’s law school compulsory.\n\n_“Today… Te Tiriti is undoubtedly part of the fabric of our law. It is woven through it in strong golden threads,**but also flows through the law,_shaping and building new patterns_** ,” _she said.\n\nThere is only one consequence from the burgeoning influence of tikanga in our law courts: the rule of law is undermined, anarchy prevails and then democracy is lost.\n\nOur health and social services are firmly entwined in programmes to prioritise Māori. Our health services are charged with focusing on Treaty of Waitangi obligations. These services are, again, designed by Māori for Māori, utilizing cultural knowledge (Mātauranga Māori) and traditional healing (rongoa) to deliver Māori-centric care.\n\nThe New Zealand Health Strategy’s is underpinned by two long-term goals.\n\n• _To achieve health equity for our diverse communities, and especially for Māori, Pacific, disabled and other groups who currently have poorer outcomes_\n\n _• to improve health outcomes for all New Zealanders._\n\nAre those strategies not one and the same thing?\n\nAnd I haven’t mentioned Māori language, the power and influence of the Waitangi Tribunal, Māori televison, kapa haka funding, tribal assets and wealth.\n\nWarfare, slavery and even cannibalism were influential practices in pre-European Māori culture, yet now we are being bombarded with the wonderfulness and pre-eminence of all things Māori.\n\nMaybe we are, quietly, cunningly and persistently, being subjected to **Inverse Acculturation****– the subsumption of a culture**.\n\nThis article was originally published by No Minister.",
  "title": "The Subsumption of a Culture",
  "updatedAt": "2026-03-02T21:30:00.222Z"
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