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Pakeha n.  A New Zealander of European descent; a non-Maori New Zealander.(the dictionary version)



Pākehā are New Zealanders of predominantly European ancestry. They are mostly descended from British and to a lesser extent Irish settlers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, although some Pākehā have Dutch, Scandinavian, German, Yugoslav or other ancestry. The word Pākehā is also sometimes used to refer to any non-Māori person. (the wikipedia version well 1st paragraph)


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Pakeha n.  A New Zealander of European descent; a non-Maori New Zealander.(the dictionary version)



Pākehā are New Zealanders of predominantly European ancestry. They are mostly descended from British and to a lesser extent Irish settlers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, although some Pākehā have Dutch, Scandinavian, German, Yugoslav or other ancestry. The word Pākehā is also sometimes used to refer to any non-Māori person. (the wikipedia version well 1st paragraph)