Cultural appropriation Archives - Page 2 of 3

NZ businesses continue to appropriate Māori culture

January 5, 2019 Karaitiana Cultural appropriation

New Zealand businesses continue cultural appropriation of Māori culture in their marketing. I believe that cultural appropriation of Māori has become normalised over multiple generations

BP New Zealand cultural appropriation of Māori

October 15, 2018 Karaitiana Cultural appropriation

BP New Zealand appears to have used Māori culture without consultation, offering Fair Trade coffee that will help you to become more fertile by placing the

5th Craft Beer brewer removes offensive Beer Label

October 12, 2018 Karaitiana Craft Beer, Cultural appropriation

Belgium Beer brewer Brussels Beer Project removed their offensive beer label within hours of the New Zealand media publishing concerns at the cultural appropriation. This

Fourth culturally offensive UK brewery apologises

June 16, 2018 Karaitiana Craft Beer, Cultural appropriation

28 hours after writing a public tweet (DM UK media) and a detailed article on my web site accusing UK brewery Rammy Craft of ignoring

Culturally offensive UK brewery ignores requests

June 14, 2018 Karaitiana Craft Beer, Cultural appropriation

Rammy Craft Ales, a UK brewer producer of the beer labeled Flaori Maori have ignored several communications over the past 7 weeks that their beer

Third UK Brewer removes culturally offensive label

April 27, 2018 Karaitiana Craft Beer, Cultural appropriation

A third UK brewery in the past few months has removed offensive to Māori beer labels and apologised after being made aware of the fact.

Culturally offensive UK brewery – honest mistake

March 30, 2018 Karaitiana Craft Beer, Cultural appropriation

I was approached by whanau in the UK about the Whakatu beer logo (see below). I was asked if I could/would do anything as I

UK Craft beer removes offensive to Māori material

March 18, 2018 Karaitiana Craft Beer, Cultural appropriation

A craft brewery in a small town in England, branded a small batch of their beer NZ Pale Ale with an image that is likely

Taking on the international conglomerate and succeeding

March 13, 2018 Karaitiana Cultural appropriation

After writing my story about Huggies New Zealand (owned by international company Kimberly-Clark Corporation) and their incorrect and offensive baby names advise on their web site,

Huggies New Zealand – culturally offensive with Māori baby names

March 7, 2018 Karaitiana Cultural appropriation

HuggiesNZ a trusted brand for new parents is an example of a corporation discriminating against Māori with little or no disregard to the long term implications