04:1304:13, 15 March 2024diffhist+1,920
Māori language
The fact Māori was the lingua franca before English isn't in dispute. "At the advent of colonisation, te reo Māori was the language most widely spoken, the lingua franca, the language of trade and education. It was only from the mid-19th century that te reo began to be usurped by English as the rapid growth of Pākehā settlers"Tag: Visual edit
04:0804:08, 15 March 2024diffhist+3,030
Lingua franca
Koro needs to take his meds. Classical Māori is the linguistic term for the Māori language prior to European settlement, and there are an abundance of sources describing this. This section is good and there's no cause to remove it.Tag: Visual edit
11:1211:12, 12 March 2024diffhist+1,858
New Zealand First
These are ideologies which stem from widely established recent policies, endorsed by the highest levels of party leadership. The party wants to limit transgender rights and is explicitly against co-governance - the latter can't really be termed "social conservatism" because the term "co-governance" is such a neologism, and doesn't fit neatly into the party's original social ideology. Anglophone interests are not inherently conservative and there's no source saying so.Tags: RevertedVisual edit
07:0807:08, 12 March 2024diffhist+1,014
New Zealand First
Policies do equal ideologies. Their policies are based on their beliefs. They have, at least, a long-documented history of association with and advocacy for old people and anti-immigrant rhetoric.Tags: RevertedVisual editMobile editMobile web edit