{"id":40521,"date":"2022-01-11T04:00:54","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T19:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/commentisfree\/2022\/jan\/11\/in-todays-new-zealand-its-not-about-being-just-maori-or-pakeha-everyone-must-belong"},"modified":"2022-01-11T04:00:54","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T19:00:54","slug":"in-todays-new-zealand-its-not-about-being-just-maori-or-pakeha-everyone-must-belong-philip-mckibbin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=40521","title":{"rendered":"In today\u2019s New Zealand, it\u2019s not about being just M\u0101ori or P\u0101keh\u0101 &#8211; everyone must belong | Philip McKibbin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While some of us are both, many of us are neither. The urge to separate us out is used to marginalise people around the world<\/p>\n<p>It took me a long time to embrace my M\u0101ori identity.<\/p>\n<p>On my mother\u2019s side, I whakapapa (relate, through ancestry) to K\u0101i Tahu, the largest iwi (tribe) of Te Waipounamu (the South Island of New Zealand), but I grew up believing I was only P\u0101keh\u0101 (NZ European). I spent most of my childhood living with my P\u0101keh\u0101 father. Even though my M\u0101ori ancestry was mentioned occasionally, I resisted the suggestion that <em>I<\/em> was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/m-ori\">M\u0101ori<\/a>. I didn\u2019t grow up on a marae (M\u0101ori village), or speak te reo \u2013 and I didn\u2019t look like the M\u0101ori kids I knew.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/commentisfree\/2022\/jan\/11\/in-todays-new-zealand-its-not-about-being-just-maori-or-pakeha-everyone-must-belong\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While some of us are both, many of us are neither. The urge to separate us out is used to marginalise people around the worldIt took me a long time to embrace my M\u0101ori identity.On my mother\u2019s side, I whakapapa (relate, through ancestry) to K\u0101i Tahu, th&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2097,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,897,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-maori","category-new-zealand","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2097"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40521"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40522,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40521\/revisions\/40522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}