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Essay from the year 2022 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 3,0, Technical University of Braunschweig (Institut für Geschichtswissenschaft), course: Landeskunde, language: English, abstract: This essay is concerned with the decline of the Maori language and the governmental policies that were introduced to try and change that.

With advancing globalization, one observes a progressive alienation of old cultures and languages in the world. Whether it is Gaelic in Scotland and Ireland, or the diverse African or Australian cultures that are gradually disappearing. Even in the southeastern part of the world, be it Indonesia or Papua New Guinea, cultures are disappearing everywhere with languages that existed for centuries or millennia.