Māori culture

be as comfortable as possible and managing a patient’s pain and other symptoms. However, culture and ethnicity determine thoughts and ideas about death. Culture can significantly affect the patient’s response to the dying process and the decisions that the patient and family make (Giger, et al., 2006). That is what Frey, et al., (2013) investigate in in their study “‘Where do I go from here’?…

1. What is cultural safety? Cultural safety was devised by Irihapeti Ramsden, a Maori student nurse, during the 1980’s in New Zealand for Maori nurses and patients who were experiencing culturally inappropriate health services. Today, the concept of cultural safety is an evolving term which refers to a holistically safe environment whereby the professional worker delivers personal care in diverse communities by acknowledging the uniqueness of each service user’s personal, social, and cultural…

Patricia Grace is one of New Zealand’s foremost Maori authors. Her novel Potiki displays many aspects of Maori culture. One important conflict in the novel is the different value money has between the tribe (the Tamihana family) and the dollarman. The different value that it has proves to be an important conflict in the novel as it conveys the message of the tribes independence without the large influence of money. This essay will discuss the different value of money by focussing on the…

struggle that places all of the power in the hands of those with money. The race to wealth robbed Original Peoples around the world of their ancestral lands and ways of life which were replaced by the dominant culture of the Europeans. The colonized become the colonizers. My research into the Maori of New Zealand in collaboration with the findings of my peers’ paint a similar picture of colonization’s consequences with respect to what happened on Turtle Island. One of the common themes that I…

The entire Grounder culture takes aspects from real life cultures while also portraying them as savages. For example, tattoos are important to the Grounder culture, many characters have facial tattoos such as Emroi, introduced later but with a clear Maori tattoo. The Grounders are often portrayed with Tribal tattoos, clearly stolen from a variety of native cultures that use specific designs to create symbolic cultural meaning. Historically, Native people, with me concentrating on the Moari…

History Tattooing has been practiced for centuries in many cultures and spread throughout the world The Ainu, an indigenous people of Japan, traditionally had facial tattoos, as did theAustroasians. Today, one can find Atayal, Seediq, Truku, and Saisiyat of Taiwan, Berbers of Tamazgha (North Africa), Yoruba, Fulani and Hausa people of Nigeria, and Māori of New Zealand with facial tattoos. Tattooing was popular among certain ethnic groups in southern China, Polynesia, Africa, Borneo, Cambodia,…

I believe nursing is a knowledge-driven profession involving nurses and patient interaction within their cultural background respectively. Nurses should provide care that does not discriminate, but rather encompass culture, religion, or race. Culture is viewed as the thoughts, traditions, and social conduct of a specific individual or society, whereas discrimination as a biased treatment of diverse classes of individuals, particularly on the grounds of race, age, or sex. This does not exclude…

Intercultural Interview: Final Report On September 5th, 2015, I interviewed Claire “Con” Meyer, a 27 year old agender individual from New Zealand. I was introduced to Con by their American girlfriend Christine, one of my best friends from my time in the Marine Corps. Christine joined Con and I in a three-way skype conversation. Christine’s presence was helpful in getting past any nervousness or awkwardness there might have been otherwise. She also was instrumental in reminding Con of fun and…

At present time different projects, programs and policies are being invented or developed around the world. The point is that all these actions bring social impacts or, saying in other words, bear consequences, which affect the lifestyle of people, their work, personal relationships and communication within society. In turn, there is a term “social impact assessment (SIA)”, which is used to assess, analyze and control these effects. Social impact assessment can be applied to estimate positive…

embellished over the tellings and retellings.Because folklore has the capability to teach and to preserve the thoughts, feelings, and beliefs of a people, suggestions are offered for using folklore to deepen children's understanding of Polynesian culture. Maori nature fables, along with error/punishment stories involving the woman or man on the moon, represent the instructive function. Tales and legends preserving cultural history are represented by a folk story reflecting values and customs of…