New Zealand doesn’t speak their Official Language

Not many people in New Zealand are speaking Maori but the funny thing is that Maori is an official language of NZ but not English but everyone is speaking English and just a few Maori. So should it be forced to be a subject in school or should it just be a voluntary thing where you can choose to take extra lessons in school or private? Well for me I wouldn’t make it into a subject you would need to take because forcing is never the solution but isn’t this language what makes NZ well to NZ? Maoris are a big part in New Zealand’s history and culture but not even every Maori can speak their ‘’own’’ language. But let me take an example. In Spain the official language is Castellano or better known as just Spanish but some regions have two languages like Galicia, they also speak Gallego or Catalonia they speak Catalan. In Catalan schools and colleges the main language is Catalan and in schools they just have two sessions of Spanish, the reason why they often fail in Spanish tests. This isn’t good because everybody in Spain is speaking Spanish. In New Zealand now it is like that: Maori is the official language but everybody speaks English, well that is confusing I know. Well what should they do? I don’t know they have to ask themselves but I think they should stick to English because not even every Maori is speaking it and most of them didn’t even grew up with Maori, just the culture and not the language. They still can be Maori without the language. They still have culture, they language is not the only thing that makes them Maori. This is also a reason why so many people in Europe are afraid if the European Union would choose an official language what would be English, I would bet on it and loose their own language over time but language isn’t everything. It doesn’t make their whole culture. Forcing now Maori would only lead to people who really don’t like this idea just make them hate it more. If the Natives want Maori as a language or their kids to speak it, just teach them, there is nothing to hold them back. It is up to them if they loose their language, if the stop speaking it they will loose it but they shouldn’t blame the majority who don’t want to speak it because no one else does. Maori would bring them nothing in this world, nobody outside New Zealand speaks it.