In 50 years (2 generations) we'll have a bigger proportion of mixed māori heritage through intermarriage. Presumably anyway. Non-māori may even be a minority of Indian, Asian and European. How will this affect Treaty arguments?
Anyone have any projected racial demographics for future decades?
Of course in the event of a world war and the CCP or any other empire assuming governorship of the South Pacific in the next 50 yrs, any treaty with the British crown is void. Xi in particular has indicated his wish to de-colonialise former colonies, what that means for māori who the fuck knows, we apparently hail from Taiwan originally, but I doubt it's good news for anyone else in New South China. Then again China's population is shrinking, India's absolutely exploding, who knows what geopolitics will look like in 50 years.
I'm 12% NZ māori according to Ancestry.com, which is pretty much what I thought before I took their test, 1/8th māori. Yes, I gave my DNA to some faceless corporation to do who knows what with, it also came back 28% "Ashenazi Jewish People's of Europe", just in time for the next progroms after what the Israeilis are carrying out in Palestine. What have I done.
That's a long-winded way of answering your question, tl;dr a democratic referendum on racial issues is always going to be skewed by the racial demographic of the voters, having one this year will have a bearing on a totally different demographic in 50 yrs, so what's the point unless we're going to repeat it every generation.
Disclaimer: I have covid, day 3 of positive test. Not actually sure what I'm talking about, might go back to my death bed, up the wahs.
