Kiwi expat. Mostly dumb af. I remember one time in a sauna some maori was telling me how all races should be friends, right before he started going on about how I was starting to look like a lobster. It was kinda funny, but too dumb to realize the irony. I worked with Samoans plenty and one of them wondered "Auckland had the super moon too" when Wellington did, and deduced there must be more than one moon if other countries could witness a supermoon too. He was the dumbest, easily. Maori are slightly more intelligent but generally not as built/strong as islanders - probably more European admixture. Generally they're just dumb af but surprising conformist with the vax thing, but this is merely an affect of them trying to be smart and wise. Some are OK in small doses and quite funny/laid back, but generally they're unnecessarily dumb and aggressive. 100% of random fights I've ever been in were with natives. The lolest was when I was 16 and some 23yr old coconut tried to mug me on Sat night when I was walking home, fortunately I had a hunting knife on me. He told me to stab him, but I just stood there, in silence looking at him while holding the blade up and he eventually walked away. But yeah, Maori can usually be dealt with, Islanders are not worth fighting 1-1, you probably won't knock them out, they'll just get angrier and they usually roll in packs. Wellington nights at Courtney place are typically Maori and coconuts trying to roll mostly other Maori and coconuts. Never go on the ground in a fight but the best way to defeat them is BJJ, my friend has popped a few native knees with leg locks, but he's a strong as shit purple belt so he can, as I said, no sense hitting them in the head, they just get angrier.
