2006: Made in Taiwan
September 15, 2020
By AHNZ
Made In Taiwan (2006) features two New Zealanders following their DNA back to its source: Taiwan. Oscar Kightly is a Kiwi with Samoan biology, Nathan Rarere is part-Maori though his father’s people.
This documentary is probably more amazing and cost less to make than the 3-part series ‘Origins’ (2020) showing on TVNZ tonight. The celebrity pair are awed by the legendary ‘Greet Fleet’ launch site monument: the Garden of Seven Stones, Rarotonga. They swallowed it whole (I’m dubious.)
Most incredibly, the DNA trail leads them back to Taiwan where the indigenous people resemble Maori folk almost perfectly! I wonder if the Scotty Morrison ‘Origins’ tonight dares set foot there? Hope so. But producter George Andrews¹ did it all first with ‘Made in Taiwan’ just as he made the incredible NZ history series ‘Landmarks‘ (1981) which I am in the process of re-releasing.
Morrison and his wife are driving forces behind a Government-driven revisionism of manufactured (and academic) Maoridom. He is the brown Simon Dallow, anchoring the Government Maori news (Te Karere) each afternoon. Also, despite all these biases, is the face of the supposedly non-partisan Electoral Commission’s publicity drive during this year’s election.
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1 Andrews knew from the outset that the history trail would lead back to Taiwan. His presenters and the nation would have found it quite a shock and even today it’s still not common knowledge despite the writing being on the wall
Image ref. Native of Taiwan who resembles like generic cheerful Maori; Asia Travel Blog
Ref. Made in Taiwan (2006); NZ on Screen
Ref. Origins (2020); Greenstone TV
Ref. Language Trauma; AHNZ
Ref. Frankenstein’s Maori; AHNZ
Ref. Mt Hikurangi; AHNZ
Ref. Garden of the Seven Stones; AHNZ, Facebook
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polynesians are not closely related to what you think of as “asian” people. the indigenous people of taiwan are austronesian – check out the atayal or samis in taiwan to see how similar to polynesians they are. the ancestors of those people got to taiwan about 6500 years ago and spread out into the pacific islands from there. the ethnically chinese han people didn’t get to taiwan until around 1600AD, and those are the people you’re thinking of that are different from polynesians.