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| Thread ID: 116221 | 2011-02-22 02:52:00 | Why the karakia? | tuiruru (12277) | PC World Chat |
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| 1180382 | 2011-02-22 02:52:00 | I do voluntary work for the Citizens Advice Bureau (misnomer really 'cos we're not allowed to give actual advice) and this morning went to a joint meeting with other Community Organisations to update each other and sort of "cross fertilize" - it was actually very useful. But why is it that, at this sort of thing, "they" (the people running it) find it necessary to start, and end, the meeting with a "karakia" - they don't say prayer? "They" used to do it when I went to Union Meetings too!! |
tuiruru (12277) | ||
| 1180383 | 2011-02-22 03:15:00 | I do voluntary work for the Citizens Advice Bureau (misnomer really 'cos we're not allowed to give actual advice) and this morning went to a joint meeting with other Community Organisations to update each other and sort of "cross fertilize" - it was actually very useful. But why is it that, at this sort of thing, "they" (the people running it) find it necessary to start, and end, the meeting with a "karakia" - they don't say prayer? "They" used to do it when I went to Union Meetings too!! PC rules pal. |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 1180384 | 2011-02-22 03:18:00 | PC rules pal. Set by who? (or is it whom?) What's PC about it? |
tuiruru (12277) | ||
| 1180385 | 2011-02-22 03:24:00 | Set by who? (or is it whom?) What's PC about it? If in doubt (and ignorance) parrot the PC phrase. |
martynz (5445) | ||
| 1180386 | 2011-02-22 03:43:00 | PC in the sense that it is supposed to give everyone to give a warm cosy feeling of inclusiveness by adopting stone age rituals: Karakia: “Chant, spell, incantation, particularly the ancient rites proper to every important matter in the life of the Maori.” www.teara.govt.nz At DSIR, or rather the follow on Crown Research Institutes back around 1992, we were all supposed to feel glad and warm by each science Institute having a Maori member on the board to represent the different branches of Maori science. All it did was to engender disbelief and derision. |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 1180387 | 2011-02-22 03:46:00 | Set by who? (or is it whom?) What's PC about it? A tricky one indeed, IT is PC these days to start or finish things with maori protocol. Friend in library was expected to sing maori songs at some point in the day, so she left them to it. I went to a lecture on nano technology at Canterbury university last week, we had to listen to a talk on the maori perspective on the subject, he said he had rung his friends and family for their point of view and was surprised that none had of heard about, but we still had to listen. Ask a teacher student ot a nurse student. |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 1180388 | 2011-02-22 03:49:00 | I went to a lecture on nano technology at Canterbury university last week, we had to listen to a talk on the maori perspective on the subject, he said he had rung his friends and family for their point of view and was surprised that none had of heard about, but we still had to listen. LOL |
Cato (6936) | ||
| 1180389 | 2011-02-22 03:49:00 | PC in the sense that it is supposed to give everyone to give a warm cosy feeling of inclusiveness by adopting stone age rituals: Karakia: “Chant, spell, incantation, particularly the ancient rites proper to every important matter in the life of the Maori.” www.teara.govt.nz At DSIR, or rather the follow on Crown Research Institutes back around 1992, we were all supposed to feel glad and warm by each science Institute having a Maori member on the board to represent the different branches of Maori science. All it did was to engender disbelief and derision. DSIR - wot's that? (Serious question) |
tuiruru (12277) | ||
| 1180390 | 2011-02-22 03:54:00 | DSIR - wot's that? (Serious question) Department Of Scientific and Industrial Research, reorganised by the National MP Minister of Science of the day, jumped up twirp Upton into Crown Research Institutes, or CRIs. |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 1180391 | 2011-02-22 03:55:00 | DSIR - wot's that? (Serious question) We can tell you it is nothing to do with Karakia. |
Cicero (40) | ||
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