{"id":282415,"date":"2016-12-03T03:37:52","date_gmt":"2016-12-03T02:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/float-featuring-in-new-zealand-santa-parade-called-culturally-insensitive\/"},"modified":"2016-12-03T03:37:52","modified_gmt":"2016-12-03T02:37:52","slug":"float-featuring-in-new-zealand-santa-parade-called-culturally-insensitive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/float-featuring-in-new-zealand-santa-parade-called-culturally-insensitive\/","title":{"rendered":"Float featuring in New Zealand Santa Parade called culturally insensitive'"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A Native American float will feature in Christchurch’s Santa Parade this weekend, despite a complaint about it.<\/p>\n

Christchurch residents Michelle and Derek Flores have asked the float be removed from the parade, saying it’s culturally insensitive.<\/p>\n

In an email to the organisers, she said the float which featured “white NZ-European children and adults dressed as First Nations, Native Americans” was highly inappropriate and culturally insensitive.<\/p>\n

“They have no business being in any public parade, let alone a Santa Parade.”<\/p>\n

She said many people didn’t seem to understand how inappropriate it was for white people to dress up in “redface”.<\/p>\n

“If white Americans or Canadians dressed up as M\u0101ori people with brown paint on their faces and in traditional M\u0101ori dress and had a float in a Santa parade doing the haka somewhere in North America, that would be incredibly inappropriate, right?”<\/p>\n

Ms Flores also complained about a confederate flag – used by American states fighting support of slavery – which featured in the 2015 parade.<\/p>\n

Parade organiser Pam Morris told\u00a0Morning Report<\/i>\u00a0the Native American float had been part of the parade for decades and it would run in Sunday’s parade.<\/p>\n

She said the float was made by the Santa Parade Trust around 20 years ago as it had several model horses it wanted to use.<\/p>\n

“They looked like Indian horses, and we just thought ‘Well maybe we could have a cowboy and Indian float”.<\/p>\n

Ms Morris said she bought the headgear from the Ojibwe tribe in Canada and…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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A Native American float will feature in Christchurch’s Santa Parade this weekend, despite a complaint about it. Christchurch residents Michelle and Derek Flores have asked the float be removed from the parade, saying it’s culturally insensitive. In an email to the organisers, she said the float which featured “white NZ-European children and adults dressed as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-282415","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}