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Fucked if I know, but I bet it's going to be more and more of a thing in years to come. In NZ, because colonialism, the people running institutions with money tend to be urban white professionals. A lot of urban white professionals have increasingly weird ideas about identity and group membership. Remember when all those pakeha activists started protesting about tree removals in Auckland on the basis of their whakapapa, reciting their pepeha documenting the airline flights they arrived on before they bought their investment properties? Imagine the children of those people demanding preferential access to scholarships and grants and healthcare because they grew sunflowers at their student flat last autumn and thus feel tangata whenua because of their deep connection to the land.
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