Winston Churchill and His Early Years.

 I've been reading a 2-part biography about Winston Churchill called The Last Lion.  I have just finished the first part which covers his birth through to Winston Churchills involvement in World War 1.  He was responsible for much and lead an amazing life. 

Winston Churchill had an American mother, and his father was a British Lord.  He was sent to boarding school and rarely saw his parents during his school years.  Once he graduated from school he went into a Military Academy. 

Winston Churchill entered military service and fought in the Boer wars, both as a soldier and as a newspaper correspondent.  He was captured and escaped.  His father was in politics and Winston Churchill soon followed in his footsteps.

Upon the death of his father of syphilis his mother was running out of money and had to retire his beloved nanny while he was still at school.  Winston Churchill was partially responsible for the introduction of welfare benefits.  I those days everyone worked for the Lords or didn't survive, so welfare was introduced to help ease the social class system.

When Briton declared war on Germany at the beginning of World War 1, Winston Churchill became Lord of the Admiralty and was in charge of the British Navy.  When Turkey entered the war they guarded a straight of water called the Dardanelles with forts along it.  They Started sinking all the ships that used the straight.   

Briton needed the Dardanelles to get aid from Russia, so Winston Churchill devised a plan to sent Warships to it to destroy the Forts.  The Turks laid sea mines, which the mine sweepers missed, and the allied navy lost several ships and had to abandon the plan.  Briton came up with a plan for a land invasion of Turkey, which also failed.

Winston Churchill lost his Job because of this and asked for a position in the Army. He got a commission as an officer and was sent to the front.  After the war he got back into politics and continued with his journalism and art.

Cultural Imperialism in New Zealand

 I was thinking today about the theory of Cultural Imperialism and its effect on New Zealand.  Cultural Imperialism is where a dominant culture influences another culture.  Cultural Imperialism first occurred with the arrival of the British to New Zealand.  They brought Christianity and British Law with them and influenced the Māori. 

The influence of Cultural Imperialism was the movement away from things like cannibalism and slavery amongst the Māori and also Christian beliefs.   Many Māori resisted this, and the land wars occurred.  Many Māori also accepted the Pakeha way.

Cultural Imperialism has also occurred in New Zealand and had further influence from the United States.  This is in the Form of the negative influence the Black have had on the Māori. Cultural Imperialism has further occurred on the Māori from the form of the Gang movement in New Zealand.  Gangs like the Black Power, the King Cobras and the street gangs have come from Cultural Imperialism from the United States.  Some are the same gangs as in the United States and others have sprung up from the American Civil Rights movement.

Cultural Imperialism in New Zealand has arrived through Media.   Literature in the early days of the Countries founding and later from movies and music also. 

Influences on Te Pati Māori and the Gang Movement

New Zealand's democracy is under threat from some of the Māori and Polynesians.  They support a political party called Te Pati Māori, who are trying to stop New Zealand from becoming one Nation for all.  The culture of their movement, along with the gang movement in New Zealand originated from the Black Panther movement in the United States.  In New Zealand, it is not about civil rights.  It's about them having more rights than the rest of us.

Don't get me wrong.  I'm not a White Supremacist.   I'm all for immigration and foreign cultures coming to New Zealand for us to enjoy and have an influence on us.  What I am not for is the damage that the American Black Panther Culture has done here.   Two gangs have been formed from it, and it has created a system where people have rights and privileged based on their race.

That movement in New Zealand is a threat to the country and our democracy.  The people they represent are not a majority here.  The previous government introduced Co Governance and put them in charge and gave them preferential treatment.  The current Government has gotten tough on their gangs and stopped giving then a free ride.  Their political wing, Te Pati Māori, is interrupting Parliament by acting aggressively and being rude.  They are also burning Acts of Parliament they don't agree with.  They  are also sharing pictures of and quoting African dictators who have got ex colonies back from the white settlers and mistreated them.