Because of our isolation as remote islands, we have an unusually clear choice. Maori culture. This (and the Cook Islands) is the only place in the world where Maori is spoken. Maori culture exists nowhere else. Grab it while we can.Originally Posted by popelli
Other cultures - when I was very young in the 60s, there were still a few people here who spoke Gaelic. Older people talked about Home = Britain. Childrens books were british.
Today thats all gone. Looking at my own children, they are American with Kiwi accents. Their saving grace is they enjoy Monty Python.:
Forget and move on......you mean just like the rest of the world?
Here's a quick list from Wikipedia: you'll note these are not racial movements. NB - Maori ambitions are so minor they don't even appear.
Ethnic separatism is based more on cultural and linguistic differences than religious or racial differences
* Separatist movements of Northern Italy called Padania
* the Kurdish people whose lands and peoples were divided between Turkey, Syria, Iraq after World War I.
Also the Kurdish region in Iran.
* the Tuareg separatists in Niger and Mali.[17]
* Separatist movements of India including Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir and Insurgent groups in Northeast India.
* Spain’s Basque and Catalan separatists.
* France's Basque, Catalan, Corsican and Breton separatists,
* the Soviet Union’s dissolution into its original ethnic groupings which formed their own nations of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan.
* Czechoslovakia’s split into ethnic Czech and Slovakian republics in 1993.
* the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia dissolution into ethnic (and religious) based Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Slovenia, Montenegro, Serbia and Kosovo.
* Belgium granting Dutch-speaking Flanders and French-speaking Wallonia greater autonomy.
* Switzerland’s division into cantons along geographical, religious and linguistic lines.[18]
* French-speaking Quebec debating and voting on separation from Canada over several decades.
* Africa’s hundreds of ethnic groups[19] are subsumed into 53 nation states, often leading to ethnic conflict and separatism,[20] including in Angola, Algeria, Burundi, Congo and The Democratic Republic of the Congo, Darfur in Sudan, Ethiopia, Senegal, Somalia, South Africa, Uganda, Western Sahara and Zimbabwe.
* The Nigerian civil war (also known as the Biafran war) during the 1960s among Igbos, Hausa-Fulani and Yoruba; today’s ethnic and oil-related conflict in the Niger Delta of Nigeria.
* Conflicts in Liberia between African-Liberians and Americo-Liberians, Africans who immigrated from the Americas after being freed from slavery.
* Conflicts between Zulus and Xhosa in South Africa during and after apartheid.[21]
* Boere-Afrikaner separatists.
* The 1994 Hutu campaign of genocide against minority Tutsis in Rwanda. (See: Rwandan Genocide)
* Indian and Pakistani ethnic and linguistic groups seeking greater autonomy.[22][23]
* China's Tibet and Xinjiang regions have separatist governments in exile.[24]
* Sri Lanka's ethnic Tamil minority separatism in Tamil Eelam.
* Texas separatism in the United States.[25]
* Yugoslavia's ethnic Albanian minority separatism in Kosovo.
* Chechen separatism in the Caucasus
* Burma’s ethnic Arakan, Chin, Kachin, Karen, Shan, Wa separatism.
* Separatism in Silesia
* Free Papua Movement in Indonesia
* Armenian separatists of Nagorno-Karabakh in Azerbaijan.
* South Ossetia and Abkhazia separatism in Georgia.
* Anjouan's separatism in Union of Comoros
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