19-11-2024, 02:43 PM
(19-11-2024, 12:17 PM)dken31 Wrote: Genuine question: If the Treaty is a "living document" and as relevant today as it was 180 years ago, and NZ is still today a partnership between Maori and non-Maori, what should the situation be in 500 years time (assuming of course, for the sake of discussion, that NZ is still a nation in 500 years time)?
Even in 500 years, should NZ still be a partnership between Maori and non-Maori, where the two "sides" can be in some way distinguished? Because any truly rational and logical person can surely see that that is forever going to maintain and under-current of discontent.
Or, if in 500 years NZ citizens will by then all just be "NZrs" (albeit with many varied ancestries), at what point is that reached?
I would think that fostering peace and harmony in the here and now would be far more preferable to crystal ball gazing.
The discontent you speak of has only become an issue from pandering to silly coalition terms in order to maintain a fragile agreement. No one except Act and their supporters seem to have any issues with Maori and the Treaty obligations New Zealand observes
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