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Thread ID: 130353 2013-04-06 23:22:00 Danish MP calls powhiri 'uncivilised and grotesque (NZ herald) tut (12033) PC World Chat
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1335778 2013-04-08 09:22:00 They do it at my son's school, he does NOT participate. DeSade (984)
1335779 2013-04-08 09:33:00 They do it at my son's school, he does NOT participate.religious or cultural? plod (107)
1335780 2013-04-08 09:48:00 Both.
I can only stop the religious thou.
DeSade (984)
1335781 2013-04-08 10:06:00 I have to wonder why we are worried about the opinions a Danish MP has about New Zealand's Maori customs. It is only her opinion. Who knows, maybe the report in the Danish newspaper will persuade more Danish tourists to visit New Zealand so that they can see first hand a half naked, dancing, man shouting and screaming in Maori, and poking his tongue out. Bobh (5192)
1335782 2013-04-08 11:57:00 It wasn't a church based school. It was a normal primary school. It seemed back then they had a thing called "Bible In Schools" where someone would come in once a week and talk about all that crap. Dunno if they have that now.

We used to have a christian stuff in Primary, too, every friday. That was before you were born though.
I didn't know it was optional till I saw a few kids not going, after that I said my parents didn't want me to go and we used to spend fridays playing on the class computers.
Although I remember some of the stories were cool, and IIRC we used to get lollies.
Cato (6936)
1335783 2013-04-08 11:59:00 I have to wonder why we are worried about the opinions a Danish MP has about New Zealand's Maori customs. It is only her opinion.

No one is worried, well some people, I would say most of us actually agree with her opinion and think it is barbarous and offensive too.
Cato (6936)
1335784 2013-04-08 21:21:00 No one is worried, well some people, I would say most of us actually agree with her opinion and think it is barbarous and offensive too.

Excellent comment from a respected poster.
prefect (6291)
1335785 2013-04-08 21:59:00 Excellent comment from a respected poster.

Excellent observation from our most objective poster.
Cicero (40)
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