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<blockquote data-quote="Prestwick" data-source="post: 91525"><p>It was actually a Maori professor at Victoria University in New Zealand.</p><p></p><p>Anyway, a quote from Brian Moore, writing in today's Telegraph:</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>He does have a point. Its one of those few quirks of a sport that really sells Rugby to non traditional audiences.</p><p></p><p>You talk to many new converts to Rugby in North America or Asia and ask them what they saw that first interested them and they'll say "the haka" or "that Adidas advert with the haka in it."</p><p></p><p>Ladies and Gents, the haka is the perfect recruiting sergeant for the sport that is Rugby Union. Like it or loathe it, its an excellent way to advertise a sport!</p><p></p><p>The Haka itself is something that has deep symbolic, historical and cultural meaning, not just to New Zealand, but also to many other Pacific Islands like Tonga and Fiji for example. By integrating the ceremony into a team for a British sport, it sent out a powerful message (quite an earth shattering one) of integration, of two peoples managing to co-exist side by side and by accepting each other's culture they cemented that bond that forms the basis of New Zealand.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Prestwick, post: 91525"] It was actually a Maori professor at Victoria University in New Zealand. Anyway, a quote from Brian Moore, writing in today's Telegraph: He does have a point. Its one of those few quirks of a sport that really sells Rugby to non traditional audiences. You talk to many new converts to Rugby in North America or Asia and ask them what they saw that first interested them and they'll say "the haka" or "that Adidas advert with the haka in it." Ladies and Gents, the haka is the perfect recruiting sergeant for the sport that is Rugby Union. Like it or loathe it, its an excellent way to advertise a sport! The Haka itself is something that has deep symbolic, historical and cultural meaning, not just to New Zealand, but also to many other Pacific Islands like Tonga and Fiji for example. By integrating the ceremony into a team for a British sport, it sent out a powerful message (quite an earth shattering one) of integration, of two peoples managing to co-exist side by side and by accepting each other's culture they cemented that bond that forms the basis of New Zealand. [/QUOTE]
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