Dude, who even knows.
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Thinking about how Kiwis are the Commonwealth country* that least displaced the previous locals yet the most poncy about it – can’t remember the last time I saw a young one actually call it “New Zealand” rather than “Aotearoa”
* including the non-white ones! Jamaica wasn’t always Afro-Caribbean
Then parsing that through the distinction between the North Atlantic settler colonies and India/Africa as administrators of a land they weren’t of – South African apartheid started with less invested British colonials being politically eclipsed by Boers – Dutch settlers who considered it their land
I guess NZ is the karmic balance to Rhodesia, the British African colony that developed its own national identity
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