White Lies Mindmap
- Created by: JayeE
- Created on: 29-03-14 22:15
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- Societal Attitudes
- When the young girl is giving birth, Paraiti isn't allowed to heal her with traditional medicine. It is frowned upon by Pakeha.
- Maori use the back/side door into pakeha houses as the front door is only for pakeha people.
- Maraea believed her daughter would have a better life as a Pakeha. Pakeha get land, money, houses, superior to others, maori are lower people.
- Identity
- Maraea and her daughter are both maori.
- Maraea bleaches her daughter to look white.
- Doesn't teacher her about culture or heritage.
- Changes her identity due to societal attitudes.
- Paraiti is totally immersed in her own culture.
- Teaches Waiputa about her maori heritage (even though he is whangai) - carry on the culture.
- Maraea and her daughter are both maori.
- Cultural Comparison
- The maori girl is trying to have a baby, Rebecca is trying to kill one.
- Maori understand the preciousness of life, Pakeha don't.
- Even though Rebecca is technically maori, her values don't resemble that of a maori (i.e Paraiti)
- Rebecca was willing to sacrafice anything, even her own wellbeing, to rid herself of her child.
- The maori girl is trying to have a baby, Rebecca is trying to kill one.
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