Saturday 2 July 2016

Indigenous rights vs Immigrant rights.

The rights of Indigenous and Immigrants can at times cross over and be very similar because of the Inferiority they are given socially to Caucasian culture. Indigenous rights means people who came first in their country should have their own rights, and these rights must also respect the rights of the Caucasian counterpart.

For example, If you see wardens on the train in New Zealand you will notice that there are Wardens who under any ethnicity can work and then there are Maori Wardens who are given different uniforms despite being given the same duties. It at times becomes very hard to distinguish with Immigrant rights because many Maori's and other immigrants live among each other in areas such as Otara and Ranui where the place is not necessarily seen as financially higher class.

Even the way they get treated, It comes to the point that many of them stop fighting and decide to come together because of their personal struggles. But Indigenous rights that are given within the country however is not globally recognized by the U.N and has only been recognized within the country. The presence of it exists but still is not established properly to become its own category without being mistaken for something else.

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