(in Maori culture) close connection between people; kinship.
I dare to hope that whanaungatanga and friendship will create opportunities that party politics would normally disallow
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The notion of any abuse threatens the whole concept of whanaungatanga.
If there is a whanaungatanga approach to this issue, then I suggest that members on the Government side of the Chamber would concur that we should get a Maori translation.
These strategies have embedded the elements of functional analysis in both the larger Maori context of tikanga (rituals) and whanaungatanga (family relationships).
It is not nepotism, but "whanaungatanga" [kinship], and done because the relatives can be trusted to do the job.
That aunt and the rest of her tribe feel bereft of being able to link those children with the whanaungatanga I talk about.
The defining principle of the Maori is whanaungatanga, or kinship.
Whanaungatanga is the deeply ingrained concept that requires the desire to unite or link individuals with one another.
The taught component is about the Maori identity focus and extended family connections with whanaungatanga.
I dare to hope that whanaungatanga and friendship will create opportunities that party politics would normally disallow.
There is no whanaungatanga there - none whatsoever.