NZ ,Would you have an issue with a shopkeeper greeting you with 'kia ora'?

[Alithis]

Couldnt figure out how to make this a poll here but id add options


Would you have an issue with a shopkeeper greeting you with 'kia ora'?

-yes...

-no...

-of course not

-why is this even news?

-who cares

https://nz.news.yahoo.com/cloud/polls/popup/3814731f-e547-330e-b02d-ae93c2558fb0/

 

[Alithis]

my reply is... of course not.. i mean come on kia ora, do a study ,see what it means.

Kia ora - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

why would anyone find "that" offensive?

 

[Johnnz]

Not at all

John
NZ

 

[Blessedj01]

No.

 

[kiwimac]

As Maori is one of our official languages, certainly not!

 

[Alithis]

As Maori is one of our official languages, certainly not!

official or not ..that has absolutly no importance in my eyes ...
its simply a very positive blessing type greeting and i cant fathom how anyone would be offended by this particular greeting

 

[Blessedj01]

It's official but it's not official, there's some technical issue with it's status.

 

[madaz]

Couldnt figure out how to make this a poll here but id add options


Would you have an issue with a shopkeeper greeting you with 'kia ora'?

-yes...

-no...

-of course not

-why is this even news?

-who cares

https://nz.news.yahoo.com/cloud/polls/popup/3814731f-e547-330e-b02d-ae93c2558fb0/

Kia ora koutou, e hara ahau i te tangata e mohio ki te korero...of course not, why is this even news?

 

[Kazza Ah-O]

Of course not

 

[Susie~Q]

I think is pretty, I do not mind it at all. Air New Zealand always answers like that.

(Have lived in New Zealand two years.)

 

[HazelAngel]

Of course not. Maori is a part of New Zealanders culture in what ever way we choose to look at it. Thats what I think.

 

[joyshirley]

No issue with it for me.

 

[madaz]

Are there any kiwi shopkeepers in New Zealand?

 

[catfood]

um nope

 

[Sectio Aurea]

It happens in Rotorua so often, its almost normal.

 

[Rachel96]

Okay, I'm South Australian (with, like, more than 50% of my family somewhere around Christchurch, so, uh... make of that what you will) and haven't been to NZ in about four years, but last time I was there, I saw "Kia Ora" written everywhere, on 'welcome to town' signs, on 'welcome to shop' signs, and so forth... But the only place I heard it was flying into Auckland with Air New Zealand. To be honest, I thought it was stranger that I didn't hear it.

To be honest, I'm a little jealous that you have two languages, an indigenous language that is used throughout the whole country. I wish Australia had something like that, and I'm just going to sit here encouraging people to use Te Reo Maori as much as they can!

 

[Blue Wren]

-

 

[MissRowy]

My parents are from NZ and I go to NZ fairly regularly so I have no problem with it...I think its cool...

 

[keith99]

How can an aging prop dislike something so close to ka ora?

I would be honored to be greated so.

 

[markvs]

I think it is an appropriate greeting from a native speaker to another, at least presumably native speaker, however, as with a lot of things the pc brigade would have us use the language to the detriment of our own language, English in my case.
The maori language spoken today, as I understand it is actually a politically corrected unnatural construct made by the melding together of several dialects, and passed off to the gullible as a unified language from time ages past. The history of NZ has been rewritten by the pc cleansing squad to civilise and ennoble the maori race who at one time or another were slave dealers, cannibals, constantly at war with their neighbors, a people who survived for revenge and feuds. The maoris were also not, in fact the natives but, they did, apparently eat them out of existence.