{"id":48421,"date":"2022-09-13T04:00:43","date_gmt":"2022-09-12T19:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/12\/as-maori-language-use-grows-in-new-zealand-the-challenge-is-to-match-deeds-to-words"},"modified":"2022-09-13T04:00:43","modified_gmt":"2022-09-12T19:00:43","slug":"as-maori-language-use-grows-in-new-zealand-the-challenge-is-to-match-deeds-to-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=48421","title":{"rendered":"As M\u0101ori language use grows in New Zealand, the challenge is to match deeds to words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While the sight and sound of te reo M\u0101ori is becoming common in Aotearoa, advocates say the journey to a bilingual society is only beginning<\/p>\n<p>When New Zealand\u2019s biggest chocolate maker recently released one of its popular products with M\u0101ori-language packaging, the reaction showed how far New Zealand has come in embracing its indigenous tongue \u2013 but also how far it still has to go.<\/p>\n<p>While most took Whittakers\u2019 decision to temporarily rename its milk chocolate blocks <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/business\/industries\/129598237\/whittakers-miraka-kirmi-block-shows-how-passionate-kiwis-are-about-brands\">as Miraka Kir\u012bmi<\/a> in their stride, there was a small but noisy backlash \u2013 and an equally fierce <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/30\/new-zealand-minister-defies-ardern-in-maori-language-chocolate-bar-row\">defence of the decision<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/12\/as-maori-language-use-grows-in-new-zealand-the-challenge-is-to-match-deeds-to-words\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the sight and sound of te reo M\u0101ori is becoming common in Aotearoa, advocates say the journey to a bilingual society is only beginningWhen New Zealand\u2019s biggest chocolate maker recently released one of its popular products with M\u0101ori-language pac&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":569,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,897,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-maori","category-new-zealand","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/569"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48422,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48421\/revisions\/48422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}