The Maori party in the New Zealand Parliament wants to take a stand against the colonial era. Therefore the country is to be renamed.
Wellington – The name New Zealand is Europe-made. It was not until the colonial era that New Zealand was given its current name by European colonialists. The indigenous Maori party has therefore started a petition. Their goal: All indigenous place names as well as the state name should get their traditional names back. New Zealand would then be history, instead we would find Aotearoa on the maps of this world.
Kreiszeitung.de * reveals what the whole story of the name change from Aotearoa is all about.
Aotearoa means so much "land of the long, white cloud". Even today this term is still used in New Zealand. This name is also not entirely undisputed.
But state names are not the only thing that should be renamed due to colonial backgrounds. For a long time, there has been a call for terms from the colonial era to be abolished. Recently, scientists renamed thousands of bird species * because they had racist names. Confectionery manufacturers also responded to criticism. In addition, for a long time there has been a call to rename all Mohrenapotheken *. * Kreiszeitung.de is an offer from IPPEN.MEDIA.
