Māori are 'not indigenous', Winston Peters claims
Māori are 'not indigenous', Winston Peters claims
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Māori are 'not indigenous', Winston Peters claims
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Blow that dog whistle a bit harder, Winnie!
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He's really trying, but chain smoking for a few decades really does fuck with your lung capacity
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How long does a people need to have been some where first before they're indigenous?
According to Peters more than 700 but less than 55000 years.
What's the threshold Mr. Peters?
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While he's right about the timeframe, he's wrong about the country of origin.
The best hypothesis of the Polynesian expansion is that they left from Taiwan sometime after 3000BC. They are decendants of the Taiwanese aboriginal peoples, not Han Chinese settlers. So even if you ignore current geopolitics, saying "China" is grossly misleading.
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Oh fuck, it's going to be one of those elections isn't it?
always has been meme