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Post by Kiwi Frontline on Oct 9, 2018 16:23:45 GMT 12
CORRECTLY PRONOUNCING MĀORI NAMES 'GIVES YOU MANA'A language expert is calling on health workers to stop mispronouncing Māori patients' names. Keri Opai said it was one simple way health workers could better engage with Māori, who had some of the worst health statistics in the country. "If you pronounce Māori words correctly, it implies you have respect for the language. If you have respect for the language that would imply you have respect for the culture. "If you have respect for the culture, you most probably have respect for the people."..... www.radionz.co.nz/news/top/368260/correctly-pronouncing-maori-names-gives-you-manaINTERNATIONAL BEER LABEL DUBBED 'MĀORI TEARS' DEEMED CULTURALLY OFFENSIVEAn international beer label dubbed "Māori Tears" has been slammed for being spiritually and culturally offensive. The "Māori Tears" beer, owned by the Brussels Beer Project in Belgium, claims to "encapsulate those tears to capture their sacred nature". The label - complete with a Māori macron in the correct place - says the beverage is barrel aged in French oak, and contains German grape Dornfelder, a single hop from Wakatu in New Zealand, and is a single-malt pale ale. Māori rights advocate Karaitiana Taiuru said the beer was another classic example of a brewery that is causing offence. "The idea of drinking someone else's tears is spiritually offensive to a traditional Māori world view," he said...... www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12139410
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