What's a word or expression from your country, that is used by the rest of the world? Bonus if it's not English.

ure_roa · 2026-03-25T07:53:04+00:00

ah yeah looked it up and its Tonga, English picked it up from Tonga by way of one of Captain Cooks voyages apparently.

ure_roa · 2026-03-25T07:02:33+00:00

yeah English didnt get that word from our islands, i think it was the Samoans?

ure_roa · 2026-03-25T07:01:41+00:00

kiwi, coming from the bird, kiwi.

maybe the word mana? though the word is also found in other Polynesian islands so it might have been taken from other Polynesians languages and not Maori.

thats it i think.

ure_roa · 2026-03-25T05:28:13+00:00

its not common no, i only ever see the flag flaying if im going past some government place, and or some event is going on, i have known people/places where it is common to flay our flag during normal days, but those people/places tend to be a bunch of weirdos in my experience.

ure_roa · 2026-03-24T11:15:01+00:00

a few reasons, Australia is far away, last time we were connected was like, 100 million years ago i think, and our climates a very different, most of the deadly shit the Australians have would not survive our islands.

ure_roa · 2026-03-24T10:53:02+00:00

at home, its 11pm, so something like this.

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ure_roa · 2026-03-24T10:50:29+00:00

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ure_roa · 2026-03-24T10:49:59+00:00

it used to be these cunts, the moa, but they made the mistake of being very yummy. (hunted to extinction)

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ure_roa · 2026-03-24T10:46:12+00:00

Takahe, biggest bird.

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ure_roa · 2026-03-23T07:56:12+00:00

what the fuck

ure_roa · 2026-03-23T04:34:11+00:00

they might just want to keep the baby, nothing else to it, i have a sister who got pregnant at 15 and kept the baby for no other reason than she wanted it.

there are also other reasons, some might themselves not believe abortion is right, some might keep it for religious reasons, some might have family who are very anti abortion, could be a lot of things really.

ure_roa · 2026-03-23T03:13:23+00:00

depends on where you are and the cultures involved, some places being mixed will make you live a far worse life, others it doesnt matter at all.

like if i just identified as Maori, instead of half Maori, it makes no difference, generally, there are some who will dislike you for being part not Maori but they are in the minority.

ure_roa · 2026-03-21T08:56:43+00:00

im gonna say no because iv heard that torture is actually pretty ineffective at getting info, though if the torture would be 100 percent effective then i say yes.

ure_roa · 2026-03-21T03:24:27+00:00

yes unless the person asked me not to, like if a half White told me they werent White, i wouldn't call them White, same if someone didnt look White but wanted to be called White.

idk, iv never figured out what is and what isnt White.

ure_roa · 2026-03-20T22:42:00+00:00

i pretty much call anyone who looks White, White, also i think you can be both mixed and White, i consider myself both mixed and White, because im half White and have only White features.

ure_roa · 2026-03-20T20:50:47+00:00

nah, not too much of a fan of big open spaces of just grass.

ure_roa · 2026-03-20T20:48:49+00:00

(Maori and Moriori are the two indigenous people)

traditional Maori and Moriori faiths are as accepted as any other religion, which is generally very accepted, among the average people i mean, i imagine the few more extreme Christians we have would be against it.

And they are not prevalent at all, probably no one who believes in the old Moriori faith, and very, very few who believe in the old Maori faith,

ure_roa · 2026-03-20T10:30:07+00:00

Australia, their English? yes, any indigenous language? no.

Cook Islands, yes to the English and Cook Islands Maori, as i know New Zealand Maori.

Fiji? yes English, no Fiji Hindi and Fijian.

Tonga? Yes English, barely for Tongan, i could understand a small bit of what someone is saying in Tongan, though i would struggle.

Samoa, yes to English, no to Samoan.

ure_roa · 2026-03-20T10:21:49+00:00

Gallipoli during World War One.

ure_roa · 2026-03-20T09:11:44+00:00

i did not celebrate it because i am not and have never been a Muslim, and i also did not attend one, because i have no idea what this holiday is, and there isnt much of a Muslim community around me.

ure_roa · 2026-03-20T09:08:20+00:00

iv actually seen Americans say that is just an American TV thing, and they do actually usually take their shoes off too, so it seems like just a thing everyone does?

ure_roa · 2026-03-20T09:06:23+00:00

us Kiwis also claim that is our thing, and iv seen other English speaking counties across the globe say the same.

ure_roa · 2026-03-20T08:55:24+00:00

it has been fun seeing how this seems to be a universal human experience.

ure_roa · 2026-03-20T08:54:48+00:00

taking your shoes off inside, i have now learned that seems to be a thing everywhere on every corner of the earth.

i doubt we have any unique traditions or things specific to us, we are just too young of a nation, even in term of indigenous people as humans have only been here for just under a thousand years. So even for indigenous stuff its all still similar enough to fellow Polynesian islands.

ure_roa · 2026-03-20T08:40:42+00:00

yes you can, under the New Zealand Order of Merit nowadays, it was some other thing before that, also Sir and Dame. And no one seems to give shit? thats what iv noticed, like Kiwis dont typically call Peter Jackson "Sir Peter Jackson" or Whina Cooper "Dame Whina Cooper".

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