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Pakeha

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Pa·ke·ha  (päk-hä, -k-)
n. New Zealand
A New Zealander of European descent; a non-Maori New Zealander.
[Maori Pkeh; perhaps akin to pakepakeh, pkehakeha, imaginary pale-skinned beings.]
Pakeha [ˈpɑːkɪˌhɑː]
n
(Social Science / Peoples) (in New Zealand) a person who is not of Maori ancestry, esp a White person
[from Maori]
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Given the history of the Pakeha (New Zealander of European descent) in New Zealand, the resentment of the Maori is only to be expected.
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It is only in the last two decades that the family forms and structures of Maori and Pakeha have begun to look enough alike that one might talk about a New Zealand demographic pattern with some ethnic divergence, instead of two groups with quite different demographic behavior.
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Navigator makes reference to these Islands of Aotearoa being part of the Pacific group; that there was no other way of discovering these but via the sea, both by Maori and Pakeha.
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