{"id":9253,"date":"2010-07-08T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-08T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/07\/08\/new-zealand-hindus-and-their-maori-friends\/"},"modified":"2010-07-08T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-08T12:00:00","slug":"new-zealand-hindus-and-their-maori-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/07\/08\/new-zealand-hindus-and-their-maori-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand Hindus and their Maori Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theaucklander.co.nz\/have-your-say\/news\/mana-tops-the-menu-at-mangere\/3915728\/\">www.theaucklander.co.nz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>NEW ZEALAND, June 17, 2010: Hindus and Maori find much to share at Matariki. Bowls of rice, plates of naan bread and dishes of vegetarian cuisine fill the table. Taking turns to help themselves are a group of Hindu elders, who are discussing plans to celebrate Matariki, the &#8220;Maori New Year&#8221;. Also joining them at their table are two Maori elders, who are working with the Indian community to bring greater understanding between the two cultures.<\/p>\n<p>At its national conference this year, the Hindu Council called on members to embrace Maori culture in New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p>Hindu elder Pravin Patel says there are many similarities between the two cultures, and both groups can learn from each other. &#8220;In Maori, mana means respect. In Hindi, mana means a respectful person. There are many similarities in our languages that surprise us.&#8221; Mr. Patel says the Hindu community wants to celebrate Matariki to give thanks to where they live. &#8220;New Zealand is our home, and we have a great respect for the people of this land.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: www.theaucklander.co.nz NEW ZEALAND, June 17, 2010: Hindus and Maori find much to share at Matariki. Bowls of rice, plates,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}