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A plan for two racially separate governments in New Zealand under tribal control means that we will have to decide whether we want our future to be that of an ethno-nationalist state or a democratic-nationalist one, according to Professor Elizabeth Rata of the Faculty of Education, at Auckland University.
That plan, He Puapua, proposes the two separate governments as the only way to implement in New Zealand the United Nation’s Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People.
In her paper titled Ethno-nationalism or democratic nationalism: Which way ahead for New Zealand? Dr Rata pointed out that the “co-governance structure would require a Tiriti body or court to regulate jurisdictional boundaries between the respective governance entities”.
“Ethno-nationalism has political categories based on racial classification – the belief that our fundamental identity (personal, social and political) is fixed in our ancestry. Here the past determines the future. Identity, too, is fixed in that past,” Dr Rata wrote.
“In contrast, democratic-nationalism has one political category – that of citizenship – justified by the shared belief in a universal human identity,” she wrote.
“We will have to choose which form of nationalism will characterise New Zealand by 2040,” she wrote.
Dr Rata also pointed out that the authors of the report displayed an astonishing confidence, when they claimed that they “consider Aotearoa has reached a maturity where it is ready to undertake the transformation to restructure governance to realise rangatiratanga Maori (self-determination)”.
Dr Rata’s paper may be read at Ethno-nationalism or democratic-nationalism
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