Happy Australia Day :-)





http://www.news.com.au/travel/news/f...r-operator-in-
trouble/story-e6frfq80-1225823217789


http://tinyurl.com/yezd793


'Fake Maori' lands tour operator in trouble



WRITING "fake Maori" on their faces with marker pen tattoos to attract
tourists has landed a Kiwi tour operator in hot water.

The venture, called Discovery Heritage Centre, has admitted hiring
Europeans, including French and Israelis, to dress in traditional Maori
outfits and poke their tongues out in Maori war dance custom to lure
tourists from cruise ships.

The director of the company has added fuel to the fire by saying she's
only employing the "fakes" because Maori people in the North Island New
Zealand town of Tauranga are too lazy to work.

"Some of our Maori are too slack to promote themselves. Some of our
Maori are too lazy to get out of bed to do that," Terina Puriri told the
Herald on Sunday.

"They don't turn up and it's a known thing for Tauranga Maori to do
that."

The company provides "cultural liaison" and on-board dance performances
for cruise ship tourists.

Performers include a few authentic part-indigenous people and at least
three foreigners dressed in feathered robes, holding traditional wooden
weapons and with pen marks scrawled on their faces.

In article >,
PeterL2 > wrote:

> Happy Australia Day :-)
>
>
>
>
>
> http://www.news.com.au/travel/news/f...r-operator-in-
> trouble/story-e6frfq80-1225823217789
>
>
> http://tinyurl.com/yezd793
>
>
> 'Fake Maori' lands tour operator in trouble
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>
> WRITING "fake Maori" on their faces with marker pen tattoos to attract
> tourists has landed a Kiwi tour operator in hot water.

And so it bloody should have. ****ers.

Miche

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Electricians do it in three phases

Miche > wrote in news:micheinnz-48D0C5.07463730012010
@news.itconsult.net:

> In article >,
> PeterL2 > wrote:
>
>> Happy Australia Day :-)
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> http://www.news.com.au/travel/news/f...r-operator-in-
>> trouble/story-e6frfq80-1225823217789
>>
>>
>> http://tinyurl.com/yezd793
>>
>>
>> 'Fake Maori' lands tour operator in trouble
>>
>>
>>
>> WRITING "fake Maori" on their faces with marker pen tattoos to attract
>> tourists has landed a Kiwi tour operator in hot water.
>
> And so it bloody should have. ****ers.
>


Yeah, probably a sore point with most 'natural' Kiwis..... (especially the
Frogs imitating Kiwis!!), but is it true what she said about the Tauranga
Maori?



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Brisbane
Australia

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PeterL1 wrote:
> Miche > wrote in news:micheinnz-48D0C5.07463730012010
> @news.itconsult.net:
>
>> In article >,
>> PeterL2 > wrote:
>>
>>> Happy Australia Day :-)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> http://www.news.com.au/travel/news/f...r-operator-in-
>>> trouble/story-e6frfq80-1225823217789
>>>
>>>
>>> http://tinyurl.com/yezd793
>>>
>>>
>>> 'Fake Maori' lands tour operator in trouble
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> WRITING "fake Maori" on their faces with marker pen tattoos to attract
>>> tourists has landed a Kiwi tour operator in hot water.
>> And so it bloody should have. ****ers.
>>
>
>
> Yeah, probably a sore point with most 'natural' Kiwis..... (especially the
> Frogs imitating Kiwis!!), but is it true what she said about the Tauranga
> Maori?
>
>
>
yup

In article >,
PeterL1 > wrote:

> Miche > wrote in news:micheinnz-48D0C5.07463730012010
> @news.itconsult.net:
>
> > In article >,
> > PeterL2 > wrote:
> >
> >> Happy Australia Day :-)
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> http://www.news.com.au/travel/news/f...r-operator-in-
> >> trouble/story-e6frfq80-1225823217789
> >>
> >>
> >> http://tinyurl.com/yezd793
> >>
> >>
> >> 'Fake Maori' lands tour operator in trouble
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> WRITING "fake Maori" on their faces with marker pen tattoos to attract
> >> tourists has landed a Kiwi tour operator in hot water.
> >
> > And so it bloody should have. ****ers.
> >
>
>
> Yeah, probably a sore point with most 'natural' Kiwis..... (especially the
> Frogs imitating Kiwis!!), but is it true what she said about the Tauranga
> Maori?

****ed if I know. I've never been to Tauranga.

Miche

--
Electricians do it in three phases

Miche > wrote in
:

> In article >,
> PeterL1 > wrote:
>

>>
>>
>> Yeah, probably a sore point with most 'natural' Kiwis..... (especially
>> the Frogs imitating Kiwis!!), but is it true what she said about the
>> Tauranga Maori?
>
> ****ed if I know. I've never been to Tauranga.
>



I'll have to Google Earth Tauranga later, and see where it is exactly.




--
Peter Lucas
Brisbane
Australia

Killfile all Google Groups posters.........

http://improve-usenet.org/

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In article >,
PeterL1 > wrote:


> Yeah, probably a sore point with most 'natural' Kiwis..... (especially the
> Frogs imitating Kiwis!!), but is it true what she said about the Tauranga
> Maori?

It's generally true of people. Some are ambitious, and some are lazy.
Of course, most are a combination of both. Still, when you try to
classify people by race, that's know as "stereotyping" and "racism".
Currently, there are a lot of problems with racism in this world, since
people often tend to get "different" confused with "inferior", so racism
isn't very popular right now. Nevertheless, some people on this group
are quite racist, or at least are pretending to be.

--
Dan Abel
Petaluma, California USA

In article
>,
Dan Abel > wrote:

> In article >,
> PeterL1 > wrote:
>
>
> > Yeah, probably a sore point with most 'natural' Kiwis..... (especially the
> > Frogs imitating Kiwis!!), but is it true what she said about the Tauranga
> > Maori?
>
> It's generally true of people. Some are ambitious, and some are lazy.
> Of course, most are a combination of both. Still, when you try to
> classify people by race, that's know as "stereotyping" and "racism".
> Currently, there are a lot of problems with racism in this world, since
> people often tend to get "different" confused with "inferior", so racism
> isn't very popular right now. Nevertheless, some people on this group
> are quite racist, or at least are pretending to be.

Eeeexactly. Thank you for saying it better than I could.

Miche

--
Electricians do it in three phases

On Sat, 06 Feb 2010 09:17:43 -0800, Dan Abel wrote:

> In article >,
> PeterL1 > wrote:
>
>> Yeah, probably a sore point with most 'natural' Kiwis..... (especially the
>> Frogs imitating Kiwis!!), but is it true what she said about the Tauranga
>> Maori?
>
> It's generally true of people. Some are ambitious, and some are lazy.
> Of course, most are a combination of both. Still, when you try to
> classify people by race, that's know as "stereotyping" and "racism".
> Currently, there are a lot of problems with racism in this world, since
> people often tend to get "different" confused with "inferior", so racism
> isn't very popular right now. Nevertheless, some people on this group
> are quite racist, or at least are pretending to be.

i don't think it's performance art. they are racists.

your pal,
blake