New Zealand’s Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters has suggested Māori ditch the hongi greeting for good to stop the spread of disease.
The hongi is a traditional Māori greeting in which noses are pressed together. It has been in less active-use during the Covid-19 crisis thanks to fear of spreading the disease.
Peters said cultural practices would need to change to adjust to a post-Covid-19 world, and openly questioned whether the hongi would ever come back.
He suggested that the high death rate of Māori in other pandemics were thanks to cultural practices.
Source: Stuff.co
