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boy (2010)
—written and directed by taika waititi

guys

this movie is about a maori kid and his absentee dad set the year thriller was released so everyone is obsessed with michael jackson and so it ends with this thriller-themed haka it’s so amazing WATCH IT NOW

I love hakas. I love watching people unabashedly enjoy and partake in their cultures.

mod v

How is this not appropriation?

Because Taika Waititi is Maori?

I was talking about him doing thriller…

Because it’s not exploitative of a particular culture it’s more of a blending of two cultures and a celebration of Thriller

how do you appropriate thriller??

I mean, last I checked, the Thriller dance is not a centuries-old cultural dance. So you don’t. It’d be like saying that dancing the macarena is appropriation.