White European settlers came to New Zealand, violated the Treaty that allowed them to come there, stole land, killed people, kidnapped kids, forced them to go to schools where they were beaten for speaking te reo and doing the haka, told them for generations that their culture was inferior and forced them to obey "superior" Western cultural norms.
It's only in the past thirty years or so that efforts have been made to save te reo Maori as a language and to recognise the contributions of Maori indigenous knowledge and values to New Zealand society.
So sorry but it's ridiculous to compare white people shaking their hands and asses and repeating words that "sound cool" when a rugby team does it with no concept of what those words actually mean or the cultural context they come from to Maori kids wearing jeans. They didn't sign up for a "Melting Pot" and even today they have barely recovered from one.
The Treaty Bill being proposed by ACT would fundamentally rewrite the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi. Basically it's saying "the British Crown and the Maori chiefs signed an agreement 180 years ago allowing British people to settle legally in New Zealand on the basis that Maori chiefs retained kawanatanga, or governship of their own people and the rights to administer their own "treasures" including their lands, fishing rights, their native language, cultural heritage, etc."
Now ACT wants to rewrite that completely to say the principles of the Treaty are that all people have equal rights under the law when that is explicitly not what the Treaty says. It says that the British Crown will protect Maori and empower them to look after their own interests. ACT have decided that since they are part of a coalition government currently in power that they can rewrite that Treaty unilaterally. But they are not a party to the Treaty. The British Crown is. And their Bill has less than 20% popular support which is why Te Pati Maori tore a draft of it up - to say this is nonsense that you have no right to introduce into Parliament.
That's the cultural context in which they are shouting "ka mate, ka mate" - it is death to our culture and to our rights to agree to this Bill.
So I'll take a generous interpretation of the OP's proposal - that we need more of people standing up and getting in the face of bullshit right-wing proposals but not literally that they do the haka stripped of all of the cultural context that makes it a meaningful gesture in the first place.
"Let's all be a melting pot" is literally the opposite of what they are trying to say which is "you don't get to assimilate us on your terms."
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