Maori news
Sir,—A correspondent said that the Maori was racialism, a waste of viewing time and that he
could not understand it. I know and understand that programme as much as the correspondent does and I am a Maori. Where I was born a lot of my people cannot speak or understand English and so Te Karere for them is special. I follow it at times, and I think putting English beneath for people who do not understand, would be very wrong. When “Shogun" was screening, very few people who had not read the book would have understood a two-hour programme in Japanese, but when James Clavell began the movie series on TV he said that the American people were lazy when it came to TV, so, to get their interest, he put no English sub-script for thepn to follow. To look and listen to something you do not understand, is learning.—Yours, etc., ERUETA CLARKE. April 15, 1983.
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