Date: 2006-03-07 06:14 am (UTC)
Dude. I SO thought they still had Pakeha on the form. Why did they get rid of that again?

The problem I have with the question is:

The guide says:: ethnicity is:

"People who have some or all of the following:

- a shared culture, such as traditions or way of doing thing, customs, beliefs or language
- a common ancestry or history
- a similar geographic, tribal or clan origin.

Now seriously, as born and raised Kiwi, don't you think I have a 'shared culture, traditions or way of doing things" as other NZr's - Maori, chinese or other?

But on the other hand, I pretty much agree with what you have written - there IS a separate question for where you were born. Interestingly, there isn't a question for your citizenship.

Why don't they just give up, have a question for citizenship, and then just change the ethnicity to read caucasian or something?

I wonder how many people who are objecting to the CENSUS recording them as NZ european quite happily tick NZ European on other forms. When I used to work in data entry at university enrolments (victoria) I don't remember ANYONE ticking other and writing New Zealander.



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