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British colonisers used Shakespeare’s works as an example of how people should act, Hyland said. “It would be a massive, awesome act of decolonisation if we discovered our own stories first and discovered Shakespeare afterwards.

While Hyland may be part Maori, New Zealand is majority of European descent [1]. To them, Shakespeare is "their own stories". Should they abandon their own history and culture because they changed locale?

[1] As at the 2018 census, the majority of New Zealand's population is of European descent (70 percent) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand_Demographics

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