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New Zealand Culture
New Zealand’s indigenous
Maori people have a unique language and culture, which
today continues to plays a major role in New Zealand
life. Visitors to New Zealand can taste this culture in
many different ways through attractions, food and
entertainment.
The Maori people are of
Aotearoa and first arrived in waka hourua ( canoes) from
their ancestral homeland of Hawaiki over 1000 years ago.
Today, Maoris comprise app. 14 percent of the New
Zealand population. Their language and culture has a
major impact on all facets of New Zealand life.
Overall, New Zealand is
comprised of a diverse and multicultural range of people
that are friendly, unique, inventive and resiliant
having bought with them to New Zealand their own
distinctive ways of life.
The influence of Maori,
Pacific Island, European and Asian cultures makes the
arts in New Zealand colourful, unique and vibrant with
something to suit all interests..
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