Danish Mp disses powhiri as "uncivilised and grotesque"
A Danish MP has dissed the powhiri she received on a visit to New Zealand as "uncivilised and grotesque".
She wrote in an opinion piece in a Danish newspaper, 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.
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.
The politician was part of a defence delegation which visited last month
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