#cook islander

[the-aila-test]

Question: does Lottie Matthews from Yellowjackets pass the aila test?

She has no stated ethnicity in-show, BUT both her teen and adult actresses are white/maori (Courtney Eaton + Simone Kessel, Eaton is also Chinese), and her adult actress specifically requested her to have a maori tattoo which seems to confirm that she's intended to be read as maori. The only thing against it is that her parents' actors are white and east asian, but tbf they were only seen in two short scenes so it's possible they just cast whoever they could find that looked like Courtney Eaton

She doesn't fall in love with a white man. She has a Thing™ with a latino guy for a few scenes but she isn't his main love interest. She DOES have a couple ship teases with white women but both of the main ones die before any romance can occur.

There's no implications she's been sexually assaulted. At one point she almost instigated a group orgy while the entire squad was unknowingly drugged on shrooms but said orgy stopped pretty quickly

SO FAR she hasn't been murdered. This show has a loooooot of character death but she's made it out of the two released seasons so far.

I... dunno if I'd call her great rep? She's like... morally gray at best. TBF again, though, literally nobody in the show is supposed to be a good person and Lottie was made probably the LEAST problematic of the main cast. idk if that has anything to do with the aila test but i figured i should note it

I haven't watched this show so I can only go off of what was shared and in my opinion if the actor is Indigenous, the character is Indigenous. Courtney Eaton was also Cheedo from Mad Max Fury Road, who also passed the Ali Nahdee Test. She's Chinese, Maori and Cook Islander. <3

[folkfashion]

Cook Island Maori dancers, Cook Islands, by pacificresort

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[saoc]

Michel Tuffery, Pisupo Lua Afe (Corned Beef 2000), 1994, flattened cans of corned beef (Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa Collection) ©Michael Tuffery

Pisupo is the Samoan language version of "pea soup," which was the first canned food introduced into the Pacific Islands. Pisupo is now a generic term used to describe the many types of canned food that are eaten in the Islands—including corned beef. Not only is corned beef a favorite food source in the Islands, it has also become a ubiquitous part of the ceremonial gift economy. At weddings and birthdays, and other important life events both in the Islands and in Islander communities in New Zealand, gifts of treasured textiles like fine mats and decorated barkcloths are made alongside food items and cash money. But unlike the Island feast foods gifted at these events—such as pigs and large quantities of root vegetables—canned corned beef is a processed food high in saturated fat, salt and cholesterol (a type of fat that clogs arteries). These are all things that contribute to disproportionately high incidences of diabetes and heart disease in Pacific Island populations as diets formerly high in locally grown fruits and vegetables, seafood, coconut milk and flesh, give way to cheap, imported foodstuffs.

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[folkfashion]

Cook Island Māori woman, Cook Islands, by drifttravel

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[the-aila-test]

Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) dir. George Miller

1. Is she a main character? YES.

2. Does this character fall in love with a white man? NO.

3. Does this character end up raped or murdered at any point during the story? NO / NO 

Cheedo the Fragile from Mad Max: Fury Road passes The Aila Test

[gossip-teine]

America. 

Hollywood.

Food.