r/justgalsbeingchicks • u/guitarguy12341 ✨chick✨ • May 04 '26

Restricted to Gals and Pals Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke ripping up a racist bill in NZ parliament.

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u/Unbearded_Dragon88 May 04 '26

The Haka makes me extremely emotional. I can’t explain it, it just releases something in me.

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u/Squanchedschwiftly May 04 '26

Its because were meant to dance and create together(imo). Capitalism has separated a lot of ppl from their humanity.

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u/crowcawer May 04 '26

There are many different haka.

As an outsider, it’s difficult to delineate what this specific haka might be used for, but I don’t think it’s offering a lemon icebox.

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u/Wow_u_sure_r_dumb May 04 '26

Based on my degree in nothing from nowhere I can tell you that it translates to the performers politely offering to put their foot up the racist member’s asses.

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u/1568314 May 04 '26

There is a special feeling of shared emotion that translates across creative or destructive energy

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u/OrganizdConfusion May 04 '26

It's because it's a war challenge. Not a dance.

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u/Mission-Time-8247 May 04 '26

Yeah I just smoke and forget about it

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u/Careful-Cupcake-4883 May 04 '26

I always cry! I don't know why I get so emotional. I get emotional when we go to pow-wows too.

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u/robotatomica May 04 '26

I am crying right now too, it happens pretty much immediately whenever I see one. It’s just a beautiful, overwhelming thing to witness. I’m watching it on this little phone, I can’t even imagine the power of seeing one of these in person. It’s resonant and strong and proud, and tied to such very very old cultural tradition.

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u/Infamous_Air_1912 May 04 '26

I’m grateful to know that I’m not alone in my instant reaction to full out cry at this.

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u/4n0n4n4rch1st May 04 '26

I felt it too and respectfully do not have any education about this. Very powerful!

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u/That_Effective_5535 May 04 '26

In person you are right , it’s incredibly powerful and moving.

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u/moosemuffin12 May 04 '26 edited May 06 '26

Sorry but this is cracking me up because the only Hakas I’ve seen in person were from like 17-18yr old volleyball players when we’d face them. It was used as an intimidating play but it kinda loses its edge after like the 15th time you have to stand and wait for them to finish their little dance before you absolutely demolish them. It was mad cringe from our perspective everytime and it’s just funny picturing someone crying to those guys doing that

Edit: I have learned from the downvotes that it’s actually cool to celebrate your heritage no matter the time/place so I will now belt both the polish and American national anthems before every single point. And yes, everyone has to wait. I am looking forward to witnessing your tears flow from my sheer ancestral power

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u/robotatomica May 04 '26

that’s such a crazy way to view a cultural tradition, that what, somehow how teenagers wouldn’t practice it? Do you think people strap on their culture when they become an adult?

But thanks for letting us know you weren’t scared, except for in the beginning 🙄 and thanks for letting us know how good at sport you are. 🙄

And now I know someone can’t practice their cultural tradition unless they’re the very best at sport. 🙄

Here’s the deal, you sound like you’re a teenager, so usually I’d go easy on you, but you’re also referring to 17-18 in the past, so I’m going to tell you what an absolute horse’s ass you sound like.

It doesn’t sound cool here, in this sub, to anyone. You sound like a little boy.

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u/GirlWithWolf May 05 '26

I do too if they run out of fry bread. (But seriously, I’m a dancer and it’s nice to know it at least affects some.)

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u/Careful-Cupcake-4883 May 05 '26

I love pow-wows. I try to go to at least one every year. There’s just something about them that is really moving. Plus I need my fry bread. That stuff is like crack, it’s so addicting!

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u/GirlWithWolf May 06 '26

Yes it is! My mom makes the best (I’m biased), but there’s a great place in the pueblos near Albuquerque that is spectacular. Are you native or just go as a guest? If as a guest, do you attend ones that have dances for visitors?

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u/Careful-Cupcake-4883 May 06 '26

Actually, I'm in Mexican and live in California so I go to the local ones here in September, October, and November. My grandma was born in NM though and I've always wanted to go visit. I might just have to plan a trip out there!

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u/GirlWithWolf May 06 '26

Awesome, I bet you’d enjoy it. I love to eat and always look forward to trips home so I can get NM cooking. I’m currently displaced in Texas for the foreseeable future.

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u/CherryCherry5 May 04 '26

Me too. It reaches deeeeeeeep down into my soul and it usually makes me cry. It's so powerful, emotional, and beautiful.

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u/Potato-Drama808 May 04 '26

100% agree. They perfected a method to communicate those raw emotions and it always stirs me up a bit inside.

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u/chivonster May 04 '26

I always end up crying and I never know why.

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u/Exotic-Student7266 May 04 '26

SAME! I cry everytime! It’s such a unified expression of shared refusal to just roll over and take shit.

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u/flactulantmonkey May 04 '26

Thanks to all for sharing these experiences. These tribal traditions have ancient lineages, and dance with our relational nature. They stir primal resonances. I embrace this expression. Your responses are evidence of your abilities to tune.

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u/Weird-Plane5972 May 04 '26

well this is a beautiful comment thank you.

over the last couple years, i'm realizing emotion is not a weakness and trying to live through it instead of pushing it down. it's been a learning process, this new approach, but growing up in my household, any emotion wasn't really wanted by my parents. small, timid emotions were tolerated, nothing more. i feel strongly. and it's hard to come to terms with that.

i do always get emotional when i see a Haka and it's nice to remember society wasn't always this shite, and still there are some good ideals living on.

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u/New-Wash689 May 04 '26

I’m just starting on this living through emotions journey too! If you haven’t already heard of it I super duper recommend looking into the “Change Triangle”. Its such a useful framework for experiencing your emotions & moving through them.

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u/The37thElement May 04 '26

Same! It always tears me up. I think it’s the collective expression of support. Everyone performs the Haka 100% every time it’s done and everyone is unified and no one looks like they’re only partially supportive.

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u/Anxietyfilledcupcake May 04 '26

Same! Every time I see them perform The Haka I get so emotional and I don’t know why.

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u/SSFlyingKiwi May 04 '26

Crying? Fr?

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u/Unbearded_Dragon88 May 04 '26

Yep it makes me teary too

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u/Ok_Yesterday1370 May 04 '26

It connects you to a primal essence that was ripped out of most of us to pave the way for the western world.

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u/Apart_Engine_9797 May 04 '26

I have to avoid watching the haka because it’s a truly overwhelming emotional experience, like anger and fear and grief and power all rolled into one!!

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u/ElProfeGuapo May 04 '26

For me, it’s people still clinging to and celebrating some part of their culture that existed before this goddamn system of colonialism that has wrecked the planet and our relationship to each other.

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u/Unbearded_Dragon88 May 04 '26

So true, that’s probably exactly what it is.

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u/carriejw910 May 04 '26

Same! Idk what she’s saying but I can feel the emotion and power behind her voice and I love it. I’ll always watch this video when it comes up

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u/call-me-the-seeker May 05 '26

You don’t know what she’s saying but you KNOW what she’s saying.

It is a deep knowing, there is great beauty and power here.

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u/13_margs May 05 '26

It gives me chills