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Bens Rational:

Also assumed are the ideas that cultural or ethnic differences are divisive, not real, or do not matter, that indigenous status and te Tiriti o Waitangi are irrelevant, and that majority rule is the fairest way to make decisions.

The use of the term 'New Zealanders' simultaneously excludes or subsumes Maori and disrupts the negotiated balance of 'democratic' voting power in favour of Pakeha.

Ngati Naho kaumatua Sonny Wara said Karu Tahi, who lived in a swamp, was the taniwha the hapu was most concerned about, but there were two other taniwha, Waiwai and Te Iaroa, which could be disturbed by the roadworks. (New Zealand Herald, 8 November 2002). The key assumption in this domain is that there is a hierarchy of cultures from tribal/primitive at the bottom to sophisticated, global/capitalist at the top