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No social service provision system can perfectly identify individual needs without being highly complex. Yes, considering ethnicity is blunt, but is more practical and does capture factors that ethnicity blind algorithms miss.

As I said earlier in the thread, even when other variables are accounted for, Maori still don't get their needs met. E.g. Maori with a high socioeconomic status still feel that our health/educational/justice/political systems don't meet their cultural needs as Maori. This is because some of those needs aren't socioeconomic based, they're cultural needs related to failings in our social structures and systemic racism.This is why ethnicity conscious interventions give better overall outcomes for Maori than the current system that for centuries has delivered Maori poor outcomes.

You're right that some people with Maori ancestry who are alienated from their traditional culture and/or are light skinned don't feel like they have cultural/social justice related needs. No system is perfect.