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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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1335718 2013-04-06 23:22:00 A Danish MP has blasted the powhiri she received on a visit to New Zealand as "uncivilised and grotesque''.

In an opinion piece in a Danish newspaper, right wing politician Marie Krarup says she was shocked to be welcomed by a dancing "half naked man.''

She says on arrival at the Devonport Naval Base, her group was greeted by a man shouting and screaming in Maori, and poking his tongue out.

Ms Krarup goes on to say she felt like an idiot giving a hongi and the waiata performed by naval personnel sounded like a Danish children's song about a happy ladybird.
tut (12033)
1335719 2013-04-06 23:29:00 Very interesting! bk T (215)
1335720 2013-04-06 23:33:00 If Denmark ever opens a diplomatic mission here, Ms Krarp, sorry Krarup, should be appointed to the post. Then she might learn what it's all about.

Us Kiwis and members of this forum are the only ones allowed to poke the borax at our indigenous lot. Not foreigners.
WalOne (4202)
1335721 2013-04-06 23:44:00 I have always thought of the haka and powhir's very primitive.

But it does give us some point of difference.

If I went to Denmark I would want Helen Christensen to greet me with a kiss (Officially)
Digby (677)
1335722 2013-04-06 23:46:00 And how right she was. Zippity (58)
1335723 2013-04-06 23:59:00 I like this Dane prefect (6291)
1335724 2013-04-07 00:09:00 Just for you prefect and Digby, here's a pic of a beautiful female Dane, naked and posing on top of the bed ....

;)
WalOne (4202)
1335725 2013-04-07 00:36:00 She needs to get over it. If she doesnt like it dont come here Speedy Gonzales (78)
1335726 2013-04-07 01:00:00 She needs to get over it. If she doesnt like it dont come here

That was an intelligent reply :(
Zippity (58)
1335727 2013-04-07 01:19:00 Typical "right-wing xenophobic" response to a different culture.
Says more about her than "us".
fred_fish (15241)
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