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Posted April 30, 2009 03:32 · last edited March 18, 2021 08:07

el grapadura wrote:
ginger_eejit wrote:

2) Other European IMHO doesn't apply - to me that means Mediterranean/Baltic/Slavic/Balkan or such


Care to explain this?


I think it's because in my mind (only as a relatively recent blow-in to NZ) that Pakeha means those white NZr's of Anglo-Celtic descent. I've never heard Greeks, Italians, Yugos etc being referred to as Pakeha - they're usually described as Greek, or Italian, or Croatian (or Dutch, Swedish etc etc etc)

So, as a Scot (for arguments sake of Celtic ethnicity) - Pakeha of European Descent I dont think applies to me - as that to me infers someone that is of European descent that was born and bred in NZ, and Other European doesn't apply to me because I think (imo) that that applies to non Anglo-Celtic Europeans

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Unknown editor edited March 18, 2021 08:07
el grapadura wrote:
ginger_eejit wrote:

2) Other European IMHO doesn't apply - to me that means Mediterranean/Baltic/Slavic/Balkan or such


Care to explain this?


I think it's because in my mind (only as a relatively recent blow-in to NZ) that Pakeha means those white NZr's of Anglo-Celtic descent. I've never heard Greeks, Italians, Yugos etc being referred to as Pakeha - they're usually described as Greek, or Italian, or Croatian (or Dutch, Swedish etc etc etc)

So, as a Scot (for arguments sake of Celtic ethnicity) - Pakeha of European Descent I dont think applies to me - as that to me infers someone that is of European descent that was born and bred in NZ, and Other European doesn't apply to me because I think (imo) that that applies to non Anglo-Celtic Europeans