[Niamh.]

This feels a bit like the "outrage" at Adele that time, seems like no Maoris were actually offended by this, just other people getting upset for them :

after Kim and Kourtney's children performed a Māori haka on TikTok.

The Kardashian family has been accused of cultural appropriation yet again.

On Sunday, Kourtney Kardashian's ex-husband Scott Disick shared footage to TikTok of his daughter Penelope performing a Māori war dance alongside Kim Kardashian's children Saint and North, and two other youngsters.

Many New Zealanders characterised the depiction of the ceremonial haka as 'wildly inappropriate', 'disrespectful' and 'insulting'.



The Kardashian children and their friends performed their own rendition of Ka Mate, a Māori haka composed by Te Rauparaha, a war leader of the Ngāti Toa tribe of the North Island of New Zealand.

The All Blacks rugby union team has performed Ka Mate at games for years.

Standing on a staircase, the five youngsters staged the sacred dance and also correctly pronounced the words accompanying the war cry.

Scott, who has 24 million followers on TikTok, shared the clip alongside the caption: 'TikTok ya don't stop. Ain't got nothing on us!'

Some fans were not comfortable with the traditional and culturally significant dance being used for TikTok content.

'Thought 2020 couldn't get any worse? The Kardashians think the haka is a TikTok dance,' one critic tweeted.

'My heritage better not be a damned TikTok dance challenge. I don't care that they've learned the real words rather than making up their own, this is sacred. STOP APPROPRIATING CULTURES,' another raged.

A third wrote: 'Gurl shut up, it's appropriating culture and the Kardashians are infamous for it.'

'Why the ****** are the Kardashian West-Disick kids doing a haka on Scott's story? That feels wildly inappropriate?' another asked.

Several fans couldn't understand why the Kardashians, an American family of Armenian descent, would perform a traditional New Zealand war dance.

'Why did I just see a video of the Kardashian kids doing the haka? What is going on?' one asked.

However, many Kiwis were impressed by the children's attempt at the haka, which seemed to be well-rehearsed.
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