Imagine being a Maori warrior and you see a bunch of European ships coming to your shores. You grab your loin cloth and spear, walk down to the beach and start your Haka dance with the boys, surely this mighty display of the warrior spirit will scare off the invaders.
They just smirk blast the fuck out of you with their muskets. Your land conquered in an afternoon and all you managed to do was a gay little dance.

200 years later your ancestors decide to revive the tradition of trying to trick people in to respecting them by dancing like a down syndrome child trying to hold in a shit except it's even more embarrassing because they think acting like tribal retards in the modern age is a flex even though being tribal retards 200 years ago was the whole reason you got colonised.