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How said, the Maoris have an important influence on the modern life: Most place names are in the Maori language and seem to be senseless at first, lots of tourists visit the Maoris and buy things from them and the Maori language is an official language of New Zealand which isn't only, but also spoken in radio and TV. Apart from this the most trees and a lot of plants and animals have Maori names in the New Zealand English.
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Today, it's possible that they keep something from their died relatives like "Maui", a Moari warrior who carved a fish hook from the jaw bone of his grand-mother*.
What we can actually say, is that the Maori people have a big and very interesting culture. They have been the first people in New Zealand. And although the temptations of the modern world are suspicious and they even earn money by showing or "selling" parts of their life how I would say and they have normal clothes or TV, they keep their culture and their traditions as the first human inhabitants of New Zealand.
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*(source: http://www.spiegel.de/reise/fernweh/0,1518,261031,00.html)
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*(source: http://www.spiegel.de/reise/fernweh/0,1518,261031,00.html)
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(Young woman with face tattoo)
(family house of Maori people)
(Maori with horse and dog at a lake)
(Maori show with tourists in the background)
(Maori girl and old man which greet each other)
Very very interesting topic and again a very nice entry Clara! :-) I didn't know that the Maoris were cannibals in former times...
ReplyDelete(Young woman with face tattoo) is not a traditional maori design. It is interesting, but you could probably find a better image of Moko
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