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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: simpson96

Yup. I want a woman who gets a facial tattoo as my “Life Coach”.


81 posted on 05/25/2018 4:00:27 PM PDT by Kozak (DIVERSITY+PROXIMITY=CONFLICT)
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To: simpson96
“It’s not acceptable … You can only have it if you have a genealogy that is Maori,” she added.

I couldn't care less. Now shut up.


82 posted on 05/25/2018 4:01:32 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks ( The US Constitution ....... Invented by geniuses and God .... Administered by morons ......)
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To: simpson96

I’ve heard that it wards off evil spirits.
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Also good looking men, little children, dogs and cats.


83 posted on 05/25/2018 4:02:48 PM PDT by 21twelve
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To: BlueLancer; USMCPOP

Yet - STILL no answer from Abby!!


84 posted on 05/25/2018 4:07:11 PM PDT by 21twelve
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To: Flaming Conservative

I wonder if the chin tattoos were perhaps a way of having the women look like men from a distance - to make the enemy think that they would be outnumbered? Just taking a guess - interesting that it is world-wide. Although the first thing that comes to mind when I think Male Plains Indian isn’t facial hair!


85 posted on 05/25/2018 4:10:37 PM PDT by 21twelve
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To: KC_Lion

Tattoos went out decades ago...

No Maori I went to school with had tattoos nor did their parents...

Grandparents living in a Pa (like a reservation) might but nobody living in the towns...

this is a creepy modern idea...


86 posted on 05/25/2018 4:44:47 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: 21twelve

You’re right about the male plains Indians. Indians, in general, do not grow much hair on their faces, arms or legs. My husband has just enough Scot blood in him to be able to grow a goatee and mustache, but he has no hair on his chest, arms, or legs. Some of the southwest Indians who are mixed with Mexican blood are more hairy, but I’m betting its the Spanish blood, rather than the native Mexican Indian blood, that gives them more hair. A side benefit -— Indian men don’t usually go bald!


87 posted on 05/25/2018 5:02:26 PM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: simpson96

So. What.

All these other cultures use technology and clothing from europeans. Fuch this stupid sh1t thinking.


88 posted on 05/25/2018 5:28:06 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: simpson96

That blonde was NOT born a woman.


89 posted on 05/25/2018 8:58:49 PM PDT by dangus
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To: PAR35

Had to be the cat sleeping next to the keyboard. Back feet were right next to the enter key.


90 posted on 05/27/2018 7:35:47 AM PDT by USMCPOP (Father of LCpl. Karl Linn, KIA 1/26/2005 Al Haqlaniyah, Iraq)
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