Do you know "Maori?"
 

Half the people in my office have never heard of the Maori. This kind of stuff drives me batshit! Did everybody sleep through Social Studies but me? Shouldn't this be part of general, common knowledge?

I could google it, but it doesn't sound like something I'll use in day to day life so I'll just wait for someone here to explain it to me.

Cloud, you should have made it a public poll. So we could make fun of people 'n' stuff.

not that mean

:keys: "Maori . . ... I've just met a girl named Maori . . .. ."

You need to quit that job Cloud. You'll be reading People Magazine and watching NASCAR next.:thepain:

ah, but where else could I be accepted in all my arrogant nerdiness, laughing along with the good-natured teasing of my friends aka co-workers?

wisdom and knowledge drop as pearls from my lips . . . I stamp out ignorance in my wake . . .

AHHH! TAKE THAT IGNORANCE! BE GONE!

Yes, I do, but I never learned about them in school. I first learned of them from the movie "The Piano" and then later I learned a bit more when I visited New Zealand and visited a Maori church on the Otago Peninsula.

This is a tattoo question, isn't it?

So... Whats a maori? lol

not specifically. I learned about them in 6th grade, because I had a teacher from New Zealand.

Lookout's comment about not needing this knowledge in real life is typical of some of the responses I'm getting. This saddens me in a very personal way.

Shoulda been a social studies teacher. Do they even teach that anymore?

the answer
 

Maoris are the indigenous people of New Zealand. (or, at least, they were there when the Europeans came)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maori

http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=maori&gbv=2

oh yeah, the Jimi Hendrix song: The Wind Cries Maori

Who are the Maori, not what.

Wait, hold on a minute... I'm all for edjumacation and stuff, but this sounds very random. If you had had a different teacher, from, say, Philadelphia, and he told stories about the Mummers, would you now know about the Maori? Would you care?

A bit random, yeah. But yes, even if I had a different teacher I would know--that was not the only context in which they have appeared in my life. And I would care.