Comments on: Pakeha or European? http://www.metamorphosism.com/?p=304 We of course all understand it, being intellectuals. Thu, 05 Jun 2025 17:47:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0 By: Hayley http://www.metamorphosism.com/?p=304&cpage=1#comment-269 Fri, 01 Aug 2003 13:18:56 +0000 http://vermeer.hmdnsgroup.com/~metamorp/?p=304#comment-269 At the risk of sounding as though I am pining for the ‘old world’ or belonging to a religious cult from Salem – I also enjoy my European traditions and culture as much as the next Kiwi –

I find your comments interesting, in particular the one about our children being pakeha.

As you are entitled to your beliefs and opinions, I am to mine.

I am not a pakeha, nor a European but consider myself a fifth generation New Zealander. I am insulted by the sterotypical label and I know many other New Zealanders who feel the same way.

If anything, the term pakeha is a term that is frequently (on a daily basis) used in a derogitory manner and to segrogate or distinguish Maori from all the others living in New Zealand.

]]> By: deb http://www.metamorphosism.com/?p=304&cpage=1#comment-268 Wed, 09 Apr 2003 00:39:41 +0000 http://vermeer.hmdnsgroup.com/~metamorp/?p=304#comment-268 yeah, that’s what i thought too. i’ve never had a problem being both american *and* being a motley mixture of various ethnicities from past ancestors.

]]> By: Kris Hasson-Jones http://www.metamorphosism.com/?p=304&cpage=1#comment-267 Tue, 08 Apr 2003 02:20:04 +0000 http://vermeer.hmdnsgroup.com/~metamorp/?p=304#comment-267 Thanks for the glimpse of an alien culture. In the US, of course, lots of people brag about being from some other country–even if the relatives in question came over more than 200 years ago!

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