Concern over anti-maori sentiment?

[Zurdo]

I think Maori should look to Ireland to see how an indigenous culture copes with invasion by the superior forces of the white man. Gaelic became a compulsory subject for all Irish school children, they have all learned Gaelic at school. But they don't speak Gaelic, apparently they speak English in public, although we still don't understand a word they say. But...they know how to pronounce all the Gaelic street signs they see, and understand the meaning of all those words. I think, hope that is what happens here, we may not speak Te Reo, but we will understand it, and what it all means, it will be part of our culture, but only a part.

And Quebec, the French Canadians - no, we don't want to go there, that is the wrong way to force a language onto the public.