Marie Krarup, an MP from Denmark has come over to New Zealand and has expressed her disgust to a Maori powhiri that she was welcomed with upon coming to the country. Two of the words she had used to describe it were uncivilised and grotesque and had written a danish article about it being so. She had described it as being greeted by a "Half naked man, shouting and screaming in Maori who was poking his toungue out.
Afterwards Marie had been criticised on her article and she apologised saying that the comments were taken out of context and the meaning had been lost in translation.
I think that she had obviously misinterpreted it and took it the wrong way. She probably saw it differently because she's from overseas but I still think she should learn to appreciate our culture. It wasn't very nice of her to dis it straight away like that.
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