NEW ZEALAND

Maori Greeting

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Maoris say hello by pressing their noses together in a greeting called hongi. In Maori mythology, New Zealand's South Island is the canoe from which a mighty ancestor, Maui, hauled the fish-shaped North Island out of the sea.