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NZ European?? Not me I'm a New Zealander!! 6th generation, my children are 7th. And every time I fill in a form it irks me. To not be able to acknowledge my country as my own is a bash to my ethics of enculturation. While there is no bad just different I feel unsettled and misplaced. And now at census time we Kiwis have an opprtunity to DO something about it. My ancestors came from Nova Scotia and Mauritius a long long long long long long long time ago - not much European about any of them. They milled Kauri in Whatipu and by the colour of my youngest kiwi chicks skin the cocoa plantation we lost due to no rates payments in Southern Africa just a few generations back has a lineage battle with which unknown iwi may have jumped the engineering whanau fence in Patea and Hawera / Taranaki. You can take the boy from the naki but not the naki from the boy and it shows clearly in my daughters heritage. Yet we still don't know how to fill in our forms.Every time the school sends home a survey I add a thesis. Ethnicity debates aside we are New Zealanders. From Gods Own, Middle Earth. We love our country with a passion. there is not a human who did not migrate here, by waka or ship, by aircraft or mothers womb. They honed out a life from the bush, have contributed as settlers, farmers, politicians,mothers and others. We have never left and we call it home. Our blood is in her soil. Tommorrow there is a chance for our country to embrace us all. New Zealanders. All of us. Not of only our treasured maori or those who are happy to own European decent. Tanga te whenua to me is people of the land but when, where and how does that start or finish? How many generations have to pass of children being created and born here? Of toil and endevour towards the good of our nation until we don't have to pretend we are from somewhere else? Go on I D.A.R.E. you - be brave enough to say where we are from. I owe this to my kids this is their home.
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