That word Pākehā - What does it mean to you? And the big misconceptions 

My mother said the same thing. She is 7gen NZ'er from Scottish roots but she said she has never related to herself as a European from Europe.

Yep I’m the same great great great grandparents arrived in 1850 -60 never have identified as European or English - no belonging there my sense of belonging comes from connection to land on which I live

@@krishely5955 I love what that guy said about it being your Birthright. I often tell people that they should feel unique because no where else in the World do you have that special name of belonging but here, in Aotearoa, NZ.

our country has never been called Aotearoa. That is one of the names for the North Island only.

@@dobbynp By that logic, before Colonisation, It was never called New Zealand either. In fact, everything already had beautiful, descriptive and meaningful Names but somehow they have now been changed and given to some stuffy old English Lord that probably never set foot in this country. Same with Abel Tasman,, who named this Country, NZ. He never set foot on this whenua, either. The audacity of it!

Have lived abroad for a long time. You can tick other and add Pākehā, I always do. In UK and other places if enough people add new ethnicity then after certain number they add in the future. There was a campaign to add Jedi in UK, they didn’t get the number though!

@@NWIHIM Yeah I guess but I dunno if any non Maori I know would do that because any time they say they are pakeha it's been within a Maori context or world view, just like the word actually means "Non Maori" but when they travel overseas for instance it no longer sticks because their identity is no longer defined by eyes that are Maori

There is no clear etymology of Pākehā according to the text books, other than that the word māori meant normal. Māori as a term for tangata whenua came about after colonialism, before that Iwi, hapu & whanau definitions were used. Find it tragic that Māori is not taught more from young age, it is such a rich language. Easily as rich as learning Shakespeare but a living language and culture! I’m often using the word Pākehā with people that don’t have a clue what it means. Many Europeans (of all skin tones) love hearing about it, it’s one way for them to get heads around Europes difficult racist history And am sure many Aborigine & First Nation people appreciate the solidarity in using Pākehā is a way to acknowledge Māoritanga

@@NWIHIM Every form I've completed since moving to Sydney has "other" tick boxes, but also has the separate tick option "New Zealander" and you can only choose one, so it's one or the other (generally because most forms are electronic). So if u go for other u then state your race. If Maori and Pakeha did that, staff then need to itemise each one (other: Maori, other: pakeha etc) but then u have 2 different ones, are they for NZ? I dunno cos I dunno what a pakeha is. And probably a fractional number do this, the rest would go for New Zealander. The staff pay little attention to minority "others", and that's the way we did business in Births deaths & marriages and Passports when I worked there, Australian government services have even less time to record these things than we do. I think it's cool u identify as pakeha overseas. Without a second thought I identify myself as Kiwi, here in Sydney Kiwis are loved (I am finding) and usually I tell someone I'm Kiwi they smile or have a nice story to tell about Kiwis they know. I did say I was Maori once and got a puzzled expression, a pause before they said Maori incorrectly. Yes Maori is an elegant language, I used to think about that a lot. But then after years of exposure to more of it I got a bit fed up with all the songs being love songs, sad songs or war songs, plus a whole bunch of other complaints over traditions. I do still love being Maori mostly cos my family are Maori, but it is only a piece of my background and who I am and it's not the most significant part.

Nationality & Ethnicity 2 different things and kiwi? Geez that a Maori word 😅😅

your "Bugger Ya" explanation is amusing and sounds plausible. However it also is the type of humour that Maori invent and just could be that the joke is on you. It is common for maori to make up a maori story if they don't know or to pull your leg without letting you on. What you would have to take into consideration is the accent of the day which is not how we say Bugger Ya now. In that case I don't think the similarity between Bugger Ya and Pakeha necessarily stands. A transliteration of 18th or 19th century Bugger Ya would more likely be Pokeha.

Tangata Ingarangi.

It is not really though. You could imagine how strange those ships and people and the clothes they wore, must have seemed to Maori. Hence the reference to patupaiarehe, the mythical fairy folk.

Pākeha is an identity generally based on your family genetics/DNA, ( if you choose to identify Pākeha, if you choose nzlander that’s your choice) those who have Māori DNA/genetics ( or whakapapa ..ancestral lineage) have the choice to identify as either Māori or Pākeha or both. How one identifies is their own prerogative.

Calm down Lester. Pakeha was a word that was given to foreigners back in the day and because at the time, they had fair skin, they were given the name from our mythical fairies.

It's the context....Pakeha is a treasure Unique to this world gifted from Maori...Not the skin color

So is there such a thing as a pakeha maori ,

I think that is your own issues there. I have never known any Māori who say pakeha as a derogatory word. If you are offended by “pakeha” we should be offended by “Māori” because it’s on the same line.

@@tracyk3606 I challenge you to pay attention to the context Te Pati Maori use the word "Pakeha" in. Rawiri himself has many times noted a difference in Pakeha to Tangata Tiriti. And how he doesn't welcome Pakeha but he welcomes Tangata Tiriti. If you pay attention you will realise he does use it in a derogatory way to distinguish from those white people who view the world through his lens and those who don't.

Try reading Being Pākehā Now. I find it really unfortunate that anyone would deny being Pākehā. It means being shut off from Māori culture. I grew up Pākehā but live in Sweden for now and definitely don’t feel I am a European. Am a Pākehā in europe…

​@@NWIHIMwho said anything about denying??? Through a Maori lens I am a Pakeha, through a Pasifika lens I am a Palangi. But when I identify myself I use my own language to identify myself. And just like the box on the forms my entire life, I tick the box that says NZ European because I am New Zealand born with European ancestry.

@@tracyk3606 then you haven't been around because I have

Yes

They are Tau Iwi or Tangata Tiriti.

@@LUAPIGNAR no, it refers to fair skin people

@@silverdale3207 to sum it up..when foreign people's arrived on the shores of Aotearoa, the reference to these pakeha people was because " their skin colour was different to the Maori people " not essentially for being white.

@@LUAPIGNAR Oh ok, that wasn't what the Maori guys in the video said or what I've always taken it to be, ie fair skinned people. I'd assume it was only white people that turned up when explorers started arriving. Tasman and Cook etc. I don't think Asians started turning up till some time later during the gold rush era and would never think to call them Pakeha.

Context? Ps: I don’t tend to believe anything that comes from someone who writes “moari” or “mowree”…… Come on now…

@@tracyk3606 simple spelling mistake, not intentional. and yes context matters for everything. The C-word can be postive of negative depending on context.

You are right. Honourable terms like Christian or Maori can also be spoken in a very derogatory manner if the intent is there. How some people abuse the word Pakeha has no bearing on its positive meaning. Personally I thought it very strange that African Americans rejected the N word but then chose to accept and even be proud of the same word starting with B. Humans are pretty curious creatures.

You seriously don’t know why African Americans rejected the n word????? Ohhhh, why do homosexuals reject the f word I wonder 🙄

I personally love the c word but I can see why people don’t like it…however the c word is very different to the word and term pakeha. Some pakeha use the word Māori negatively and some men use the word woman negatively, doesn’t change the fact that there is nothing wrong with the word, just a few bad eggs. (Even though lately it seems like a lot more :( )

Pakeha is different to tauiwi though. Pakeha is basically non maori belonging to nz, tauiwi is foreign (basically)

Not any other race , it was a term for people with fair skin.

The term Pākehā is also sometimes used among New Zealanders of European ancestry in distinction to the Māori term tauiwi (foreigner), as an act of emphasising their claims of belonging to the space of New Zealand in contrast to more recent arrivals. Ref: Wikipedia.

You are right. Pakeha is a New Zealander of European descent.

Probably nothing, if that is their Name.

What is a hori?

@@LUAPIGNAR It means George. Some people like to use it as a derogatory slur, for Maori.

@@AngieSainty kia ora Aunty 👍

@@AngieSainty ko maori ahau whaea. Kia ora.

I am a Pakeha, 5th generation kiwi from a settler sailing ship, 7 generations in our whanau here. Tangata Whenua is a maori term but that's exactly what I am. My roots and relationship to the land and lifetime of care for the land is as deep as any maori, indeed deeper than many maori I have met. Many maori willingly sold land. How deep was their connection to it? Yes Maori have specific cultural stories that perform a valuable function of tying people to the land. However this is neither more or less profound or relevant than my own. Maori have a 5 or 6 more centuries of ancestry here but this pales in significance compared to the ages of living podocarps, Rata and Kauri in our forests. What matters more is how we actually respect and act towards our Creator, the land, the forests, rivers and ecosystems; and to the people we share life with today.

Watch the vid.

@@AngieSainty I did I am Japanese so am I pakeha? Lots of talk about the word evolving but maybe you could help answer my question?

The more I am learning the more I see it's based on skin colour. Well I have a dream...

In the video it states there are a lot of different views. The original meaning was non maori that came. It wasn’t based on race. Was that it was just different, but the word given came from a word describing fair skinned. (Well that’s what I grew up with from the east coast) Over the years, more people came and they had different coloured skin. It doesn’t change the fact though. It doesn’t mean “white”. That’s “ma”. The difference between being tauiwi, tangata Tiriti and pakeha is just based on if you were born here and your generations before were born here basically.

@tracyk3606 thank you Tracy this was very informative

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@brandstefff If that's how you identify kei te pai. If it's Hobson/Act/Atlas rhetoric get a grip! 😂😂😂

@@suniap3091 I'm a white KIWI and proud of it 👌 be proud of who you are, its where it starts mate

Kiwi is a Māori word, so congrats, you are a pakeha Or tauiwi, I’m not going to assume you are of English/commonwealth or other.

@@tracyk3606 a maori word when spoken but yet when you type it on your keyboard or write it with a pen, know this: The english funded and educated maori with a written language, its actually therefore very much english... 🤣🤣🤣

Hahahaha what?? Where did you get this “literal translation”?????? Show us all. We are very curious. Because white worm would be noke mā? Unless you think the govt, hospitals, basically anywhere in NZ that used the word pakeha is calling you a white worm, then you are massively deluded.

no

One translation refers to the white nits hat live in hair. This is not a derogatory term because these keha (nits) are seen in maori culture as the fellows who bring you bright ideas. This is because the pakeha arrived with lots of new technology that amazed the maori, from the wheelbarrow to the block and tackle winches, quite apart from tools, steel, guns and amazingly fine clothing. This translation came from old people in Ngatihine, of Northland.

Fake News

Pākehā was a word originally used by Māori to describe the pale skinned people who arrived in Aotearoa. The Māori word to define a foreign born (Usually non-white) settler is Tauiwi. Tauiwi and Pākehā citizens are both Tangate Tiriti whereas Māori are Tangata Whenua.

Btw, as pākehā I have absolutely no trouble with the word although I do have problems with many Pākehā who do.

You can also identify as Kiwi. I identified as Kiwi when I travelled in Europe in the late 80's. It is recognised as our very rare and unique National Bird and a collective of NZ'ers. But it is a maori word and no-one speaking reo maori, is going to use that word to refer to you because it is bird. lol

@@diyguru9677 Great explanation. I have been a bit confused about who the Tau Iwi were. I love the name Tangata Tiriti. It gives our Pakeha whanau, mana. I thought Rangi and Hone explained it well. Both of their explanations have always been my understanding, as were told to me by my Tipuna. When I came to live in Sth Auck, I was shocked to hear that people thought it meant 'white pig'. I have pakeha whanau, my Mum is pakeha. We would never be calling them that. :/

​@@AngieSainty I cringe every time I hear politicians and media talk about "hard working Kiwis". There is no "S" in Māori reo, the plural of Kiwi is Kiwi and yes, Kiwi is a fruit in USA/Asia and the national bird of Aotearoa NZ.

​@ageingtrucker 😂 that's it bro...phonics...exactly how they penned Te Rayo down. Car tower is when you speaking to more than one person my bro Queer is for one Ten a queer

No, it was actually quite informative and debunks the theory that it is a derogatory word.

Well given that seymour and his ilk want a debate about the treaty as a whole, why can this discussion occur?

tautoko!

BROTHER BROWN WOMBLE,

I actually love this ideal. Hadn’t thought of it that way myself before. Pakeha are also kin to me, I see them as whanaungatanga, extended family, to Māori. People that say they are nz European but have lived here generationally, to me personally, don’t have much national pride and yes, separatives work. You may argue that having pakeha and Māori is separative but that doesn’t work here because we are all “New Zealanders” as a NATIONALITY and “European” is not NZ.

@@tracyk3606 Ae, Whanaungatanga. Tautoko, Tracy 🤎🤍❤

you didn't even watch the vid, did you?

Pakeha was a word gifted to the people that came to NZ that were different/foreign. That you think it’s an offensive word is your own issue. It is a word used nationally, in govt, it is not an insult and that instead of using Māori you chose “native” tells me exactly who you are. Go back to your misinformation blogs. Ps: Hōri means George. Depending on how you place hori in a sentence changes what it means, but none of the ways in Māori are offensive. So it doesn’t bother me. That YOU would choose to use it as an insult though is something maybe you should self reflect on haha.

Labelling people as a whole based on the colour of their skin is not a gift It's racist and offensive

You clearly didn’t watch the video or read any comments, just came here to make a Rarrrr rarrrr it’s racist comment. It isn’t a label for skin colour. That’s just absolutely silly. White is mā. Pakeha was just non maori british(then eventually European) settlers. Yes, some say the name was taken from pakehakeha or patupairehe, basically our mythical fair skinned mermaids and fairies. You can be a pakeha and not be “white”. You can be Māori and be “white”. Tau iwi is for people other than pakeha (non maori European), doesn’t matter what skin shade you are. Generally that term came after te Tiriti o Waitangi which is between two parties (bi-cultural) Māori and the crown. So basically any country that wasn’t under the crown back then was tau iwi. It’s not that deep. If it was racist and offensive, why would we call our own friends and family who are pakeha, pakeha?? Why would the govt, hospitals, schools use the word. You clearly are misinformed.

Yet, you refer to indigenous people as "natives" inferiority complex much? Using derogatory language to inflate your poor ego 😂😂😂

Hori means George.

George calls Suppressors 'pakeha' . Pakeha calls George superior 👌

That you have come in here and said “superiors” screams of look at me look at me i am an edgy racist. I’m going to say “hories” and basically say they are inferior. 🙄🙄🙄🙄

@@tracyk3606 i am a hori .

A George? Are you saying George’s are inferior?

Only if you're offended by being known as Pākehā. There's very few (white) people on planet earth who share that mana.

Learn Te Reo

@@LUAPIGNAR lol no I’d much sooner learn something like French

@@michaelf3753 apprendre la langue maorie ou pour de meilleures relations commerciales apprendre le mandarin.

@@michaelf3753 pourquoi vivre en Nouvelle-Zélande si vous ne parlez pas la langue de la première nation ?

Yeah ....nah...

@kaderyalls2972 spoken like true facist. Tell me is it because it is a Maori word that upsets your sensibilities so much. If it was another language used to describe a person from another ethnicity or country would you be so offended?

Explain please? Do you honestly think the govt, media, public services are calling you derogatory names when you are identified as pakeha? Grow up