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Originally Posted by DrTiTus
If you're trying to tell me that all Maori are poor, uneducated and unable to succeed, then I can tell you that's absolutely not true. So if some can, and others can't, it's differences /within the population/ not /as a result of belonging to the population/.
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I'm saying that all Maori face disadvantages in society (to different degrees) based on their ethnicity; due to the institutional & societal racism that comes from colonization.
For example, even when controlled for socioeconomic status, poverty, age, sex, comorbidities and location. Maori are on average 35% more likely to die after waiting list surgeries.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/te-manu-k...n-maori-report
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Originally Posted by DrTiTus
but poverty affects non-Maori as well as Maori. There are potentially MORE non-Maori poor than there are Maori poor (in absolute numbers), but we laser focus on Maori (and ignore the Pacific Island poor, they don't get any special treatment, even though they got dawn raided and exploited - no treaty though, too bad).
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Maori disadvantages come from Te Tiriti not being honoured and the colonisation that followed. So their interventions are based on redressing historical injustices not reducing poverty in general. But hey, I'm all for more socialism to reduce general poverty. How about you?