JD: If 3% of My DNA Is Scandinavian, Am I Norwegian?

Guest post on The Good Oil by JD

The 1961 census in New Zealand counted 167,086 people as Māori, using a criterion of at least 50 per cent Māori ancestry.

Then, in the 1986 census, the Labour Government, led by David Lange with Phil Goff as minister of statistics, introduced new rules allowing individuals to self-identify as Māori and, as a result, the recorded Māori population began to increase.

Roger Childs: Are Māori statistics pointless?

Today the vast majority of those involved in research on human variation would agree that biological races do not exist among humans… –Robert Wald Sussman, author of “The Myth of Race: The troubling Persistence of an Unscientific Idea”

John Porter: 2% Of New Zealanders Are Really Maori

Are Maori really that disadvantaged in New Zealand?

You don’t have to search very hard to find plenty of articles on the net that will quite plainly quote stats saying Maori are very disadvantaged. Here is one I found on the E-Tangata site: