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# Face of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/face-of-the-day-985/
- Published: 2024-06-15T18:30:00.000Z
- Updated: 2024-06-15T04:56:38.000Z
- Author: Good Oil Staff
- Tags: Culture, NZ, NZ Politics, Politics, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-06-28 02:24

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> The end result can be not feeling like a “real” Maori, but not a “real” Pakeha either. That space between cultures is a strange and uncomfortable place \[…\]  
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> Over time, I’ve learned the only way to coexist with that awkward space between is to remember who your tupuna were \[…\]  
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> Let’s not make it harder by asking questions that require a level of mathematical ability and genealogical knowledge that few of us posses \[sic\] – and are silly in the first place.  
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> I might be more flat-white than espresso, but I’m still a tasty caffeinated beverage, made from the same beans. Whatever that might mean for my blood.  
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> [1News](https://www.1news.co.nz/2024/06/15/please-dont-ask-me-to-prove-that-im-maori-enough/?ref=goodoil.news)

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