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Originally Posted by astrangerhere
I should have been more clear. I was suggesting people that identify as indigenous, first nation, or the like. In the US it would be Native American, in Canada, First Nations, in Australia and New Zealand it would be Aboriginal...
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...and in Europe it would be a Caucasian/European, so etc, etc. for whatever country/land mass you care to take. So, for example, James Joyce was indigenous and I would be very surprised if it turned out that he did not identify as a European in Ireland.
A small point (elaborated on in many following words
), New Zealand Maori do not identify as Aboriginal (nor does anyone else here identify them as such). They identify as Maori, who are Polynesian; the Polynesian migratory path (as their homo sapien forebears migrated from being indigenous to Africa, to indigenous to the Middle East, to indigenous to Asia to indigenous to Polynesia) is different in penultimate settlement path to that of the Australian Aboriginal, and also especially so in time as those who became known as Australian Aboriginal arrived Australia circa 45,000BC, those who became known as Polynesians arrived Polynesia relatively recently circa 1,500BC, and those Polynesians that became known as Maori arrived NZ ex Eastern Polynesia very recently circa 14th Century.