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Woman with chin tattoo accused of appropriating native New Zealand culture
Fox News ^ | 5/26/2018 | Janine Puhak

Posted on 05/25/2018 1:06:16 PM PDT by simpson96

A woman from New Zealand is facing backlash after photos of her chin tattoo began making waves earlier this week.

Sally Anderson, a life coach, reportedly got the tattoo as an homage to New Zealand's indigenous Maori culture, but some are saying it's offensive on the grounds of cultural appropriation. The tattoo, known as a "moko kauae," has since sparked a debate across the island nation, the BBC reported.

The blonde, blue-eyed white woman is reportedly married to a Maori man who has a full facial tattoo, and she claims her body art symbolizes strength after surviving a gang rape as a teenager in the 1980s, according to News.com.au

She also got the moko "a few years ago" by a Maori artist, the BBC reports.

The backlash began after Anderson added photos of herself with the moko to her life-coaching business' website and social media pages. Critics have since accused Anderson of trying to get attention and boost her business, called Evolved Leadership, with the design.

“I do think there’s a level of cultural appropriation and I do think there’s a level of white privilege that’s being displayed here, and I think we need to be really cautious about that,” Mera Lee-Penehira, an associate professor at Te Whare Wananga o Awanuiarangi, a New Zealand university, told BBC.

"The carvings that go on the face or head are also particularly sacred,” Dr. Lee-Penehira said of the “business branding.”

“It’s not acceptable … You can only have it if you have a genealogy that is Maori,” she added.

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KEYWORDS: bullying; maori; mokokauae; pc; pcpolice; shaming
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To: DesertRhino

Maori by injection?


21 posted on 05/25/2018 1:17:12 PM PDT by heterosupremacist (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God. - (Thomas Jefferson)
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To: simpson96

Very unattractive.


22 posted on 05/25/2018 1:17:24 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: simpson96

It looks like the wearer is drooling lines of dark blue ink.
Not at all attractive, but guess what? These are adults who have made that personal choice. We don’t have to ‘like it’.

While in public, I often see women with strangely bright, candy colored hair.
Do you think I’m going to say anything about it?
Hell no! That’s what some of them want. They bait you into making a statement, which allows them to express their independence from ‘The Patriarchy’.


23 posted on 05/25/2018 1:18:07 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: simpson96

Appropriating what we like from other cultures, is our culture. Its who we are. You don’t get to judge me.


24 posted on 05/25/2018 1:18:09 PM PDT by marron
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To: simpson96

And here I thought beards on women only came after menopause.


25 posted on 05/25/2018 1:21:11 PM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: simpson96
some are saying it's offensive on the grounds of cultural appropriation.

No, it's offensive on the grounds that it looks ridiculous.

26 posted on 05/25/2018 1:21:28 PM PDT by GreenHornet
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To: simpson96

“Sally Anderson, a life coach, reportedly got the tattoo as an homage to New Zealand’s indigenous Maori culture...”

Should have just been honest. She got it to distract people from her huge honker.


27 posted on 05/25/2018 1:21:45 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: heterosupremacist

Olive Ann Oatman (1837 – March 20, 1903)[3] was a woman from Illinois whose family was killed in 1851, when she was fourteen, in present-day Arizona by a Native American tribe, possibly the Tolkepayas (Western Yavapai); they captured and enslaved her and her sister and later sold them to the Mohave people.[4][5] After several years with the Mohave, during which her sister died of hunger, she returned to white society, five years after being carried off.

In subsequent years, the tale of Oatman came to be retold with dramatic license in the press, in her own “memoir” and speeches, novels, plays, movies and poetry. The story resonated in the media of the time and long afterward, partly owing to the prominent blue tattooing of Oatman’s face by the Mohave. Much of what actually occurred during her time with the Native Americans remains unknown.[


28 posted on 05/25/2018 1:22:05 PM PDT by the_daug
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Sort of like the woman in Hell On Wheels.


29 posted on 05/25/2018 1:22:52 PM PDT by eastforker (All in, I'm all Trump,what you got!)
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To: simpson96

It’s her Stoopid Mark!


30 posted on 05/25/2018 1:23:00 PM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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To: simpson96

If your life coach gets a chin tattoo, you’ve chosen poorly.


31 posted on 05/25/2018 1:26:53 PM PDT by FroedrickVonFreepenstein
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To: the_daug

Hell on wheels series.


32 posted on 05/25/2018 1:27:48 PM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: Boogieman

Well, it worked until you opened your big mouth. LOFL!!


33 posted on 05/25/2018 1:29:59 PM PDT by gundog (Hail to the Chief, bitches.)
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To: trisham

I just did some reading on her——she is a huckster selling her seminars on leadership through very expensive lectures and retreats.

She is all about money.

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34 posted on 05/25/2018 1:30:28 PM PDT by Mears
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To: simpson96

The grow big un’s down there!


35 posted on 05/25/2018 1:34:44 PM PDT by doorgunner69 (Give me the liberty to take care of my own security..........)
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To: Mears

I should have known! Thanks, Mears.


36 posted on 05/25/2018 1:35:07 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: rktman

From Hell on Wheels TV Series.

The women that had these didn't get them by request.

37 posted on 05/25/2018 1:35:15 PM PDT by itsahoot (Welcome to the New USA where Islam is a religion of peace and Christianity is a mental disorder.)
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To: simpson96

Well, to be fair...those two would be hideous with or without the tats. Especially the one on the left.


38 posted on 05/25/2018 1:37:15 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: lee martell

“which allows them to express their independence from ‘The Patriarchy’.”

Ah, the patriarchy. Formerly known as “civilization.”


39 posted on 05/25/2018 1:37:45 PM PDT by dsc (Our system of government cannot survive one-party control of communications.)
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To: the_daug

The character of Eva on “Hell on Wheels” was probably based on that woman. She had been kidnapped and made a slave by the indians. Still miss that series. I couldn’t stand the character of Black Bolt that Anson Mount played in the “Inhumans.” Glad it was cancelled. His Cullen Bohannon on “Hell on Wheels” was excellent.


40 posted on 05/25/2018 1:39:08 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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