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A New Zealand tour operator is in trouble for enlisting backpackers to entertain tourists by impersonating the native Maori, Australia's ABC news reported on Monday.
Instead of employing Maori, the tour company Discovery Heritage Group, based in the North Island city of Tauranga, paid backpackers visiting from Israel and France to dress up in feathered robes, draw tattoos in pen on their faces and go aboard cruise ships when they pulled into the Port.
The company's director, Terina Puriri, told a local newspaper, The New Zealnad Herald, that she had no choice but to use fake dancers, because local Maori are so lazy.
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Maori elders said that while they are insulted by the impersonators, they are more upset about the tour operator's comments that all local Maori are lazy.
HuiKakahu Kawe, the chairman of the local Maori tribe, says lots of Maori want to work.
"We have Maori operators that are operating successfully in the tour business who do get up in the morning and do the business," he said.
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