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Intimidating cultural appropriation

The high school football team in Euless, TX (population 52,900) starts their games by performing the haka, a chanting dance used to intimidating effect by New Zealand’s All Blacks rugby team. What’s odd/interesting about this is that the Maori chant was appropriated by the team’s contingent of Tongan players โ€” whose parents moved to the town to work at DFW airport โ€” and has led to a greater sense of acceptance of the Tongans into the larger community. How’s that for multiculturalism?