“That’s one thing that I love about our country is that it was once a country where we couldn’t embrace our culture, but now it’s turned around where our country … is eager to learn and to embrace it. Looking back, I don’t know how it could have been like that. Like, why couldn’t we have our culture then? Like, why do we get to have it now? Like, why couldn’t our ancestors embrace what they had and what they were born with. And I guess that’s what makes it more meaningful to me.”
As New Zealand prepares for an