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Definition of Pakeha in English: Pakehanoun ˈpɑːkɪhɑː NZ A white New Zealander as opposed to a Maori. as modifier Pakeha influences Example sentencesExamples - Haast named the pass after himself and claimed to be the first pakeha to have travelled through it, but the discovery of Cameron's flask discredited this claim.
- So it's a mystery why, unique in the world, some European New Zealanders refer to themselves as pakehas - an insulting name originally applied by the Maoris to the fair-skinned Imperialists who were in the process of conquering them!‘.
- I am still in a dilemma of how, as a pakeha, to present this relationship and history.
- The latest New Zealand Census-Mortality Study shows that Maori die younger than pakeha, even after controlling for socioeconomic status.
- In the same speech he uttered the weighty words ‘Maori and pakeha are both indigenous people to New Zealand now‘.
- He ignores all the advantages pakeha have inherited: wealth and land, and also dominance, confidence, privilege, and a society that is set up to convenience us.
Definition of Pakeha in US English: Pakehanoun NZ A white New Zealander as opposed to a Maori. as modifier Pakeha influences Example sentencesExamples - In the same speech he uttered the weighty words ‘Maori and pakeha are both indigenous people to New Zealand now‘.
- So it's a mystery why, unique in the world, some European New Zealanders refer to themselves as pakehas - an insulting name originally applied by the Maoris to the fair-skinned Imperialists who were in the process of conquering them!‘.
- I am still in a dilemma of how, as a pakeha, to present this relationship and history.
- Haast named the pass after himself and claimed to be the first pakeha to have travelled through it, but the discovery of Cameron's flask discredited this claim.
- He ignores all the advantages pakeha have inherited: wealth and land, and also dominance, confidence, privilege, and a society that is set up to convenience us.
- The latest New Zealand Census-Mortality Study shows that Maori die younger than pakeha, even after controlling for socioeconomic status.
adjective Relating to white New Zealanders and their languages and culture. Example sentencesExamples - Maori families are larger than those of the pakeha, or white, population.
- His book details his family's land battles, his brother's notorious murder charge and his uneasy existence in a two-sided world (born of a Maori father and a pakeha mother).
- From what friends and family tell me this has split the Maori and pakeha camps and is causing bitter resentment.
- There were storytellers on both the Maori and the pakeha sides of my family.
- Her ideas were both challenging and threatening to many pakeha New Zealanders who were, and are, often ignorant of the country's history and fearful of difference.
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