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dwwilson t1_ity066u wrote

Conveniently leave out the part where the 15% asian population of the country have 1% representation in government.

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Small-Explorer7025 t1_ityimth wrote

Also didn't mention that Asian-Kiwis have a disproportionate amount of wealth. Why not? Because this post was about the gender balance of parliament. Nothing more.

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tinydonuts t1_ityea57 wrote

Ah right, it wouldn’t be a discussion of progress without complaining about something.

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dissentrix t1_ityp7fe wrote

Need to bring some whataboutin' up in here

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RoscoePSoultrain t1_itys0x6 wrote

We had to kick two out of parliament as they were suspected spies.

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Test19s t1_itznqgk wrote

Anti-Asian sentiment coming back in style would suck really badly IMO.

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Programmdude t1_iu1gbum wrote

While Anti-Asian sentiment would suck, letting china walk all over NZ would suck even more. It's not like I have any answers though.

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armin_si t1_itypwsj wrote

Finally realizing that making quotas on visible traits of people is nonsense. Would also be funny to see the socioeconomic background of these wonderful women

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razor_eddie t1_ityu7jd wrote

You could look it up, instead of being an insinuating cunt about it?

https://www.parliament.nz/en/pb/library-research-papers/research-papers/the-2020-general-election-and-referendums-results-analysis-and-demographics-of-the-53rd-parliament/

Table 8 for occupation, pre-parliament.

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armin_si t1_itz0ly4 wrote

Its an good effort but it doesnt say SO much as to where their economic class. Never saw that much transparency in a government report tho

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razor_eddie t1_itz2qyk wrote

OK, but do you have the cultural referents to make sense of the information?

For example, is this person left or right wing?

"She has strong links to the Māori King Movement; her father was the adopted son of King Korokī and the elder brother of Māori Queen Te Atairangikaahu.[9] She is related to the Māori monarch, Kingi Tuheitia.[10] Her sister, is the co-chair of the Māori Health Authority.[11]"

Or this one?

"She grew up in Morrinsville and Murupara, where her father,worked as a police officer,[18] and her mother worked as a school catering assistant.[19][20] She was raised in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), and her uncle is a general authority in the church."

(They're both left-wingers. The first is the current NZ Minister for foreign affairs, and the second is the Prime Minister)

A lot of it goes with the party. A lot of Green MPs are ex community workers. A lot of Labour politicians are ex Government Employees.

For your private equity fund managers, look to the National Party.

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SeleucusNikator1 t1_iu042h5 wrote

NZ used to be a 80-90%+ white country (with the other 10%-20% being Polynesian) until very recently. The overwhelming majority of the Asian population immigrated in recent decades, and it takes a some time for families to establish themselves in a new country in order to have the luxury of pursuing politics as a career. When Italians and Irishmen started immigrating to the USA, it took decades for them to build up the social networks and capital in order to climb to the ranks of Governors, Mayors, etc. too.

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razor_eddie t1_ityu5rt wrote

It's actually 6.7%, but don't let that get in the way of your hate.

https://www.parliament.nz/en/pb/library-research-papers/research-papers/the-2020-general-election-and-referendums-results-analysis-and-demographics-of-the-53rd-parliament/

"The 53rd Parliament has eight MPs who identify as being of Asian ethnicity, the same number as in the previous Parliament. Overall, MPs who identify as being of Asian ethnicity comprise 6.7% of the parliament, which is less than half the share (15.1%) of the population who identified as being of the Asian ethnic group in the 2018 census (15.1%)."

The nice thing is that, even though Asian representation remained static, and Maori representation dipped slightly to 25 MPs, the number of Pasifica MPs rose, and we got the first 2 MELAA (Middle Eastern/Latin American/African) MPs.

10% (a little over) LGBTQ+, but still far too many Gen X.

Cherry-picking only gives a tenth of the actual story.

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Bobby_feta t1_itz3lsi wrote

Interestingly that actually aligns nearly perfectly with the Asian demographic % from 20 years ago. Since then the demographic has been increasing by about 50% each census, mostly through immigration. First gen migrants are significantly less likely to enter into politics for really obvious reasons, so actually it makes sense.

Not saying that more can’t be done of course, but yeah, this 1% vs 15% is misleading on both counts

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FredDagg2021 t1_iu1427m wrote

The National party and Labour party both had Chinese members one was an ex tutor at a Chinese spy school,,,and no Im not joking

https://www.newsroom.co.nz/national-mp-jian-yang-to-retire

The other was this guy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Huo

...and both left within days of each other

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/443477/labour-national-tight-lipped-on-former-kiwi-chinese-mps-departure

retirements followed intelligence briefings of both parties.

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letsreticulate t1_ityra9r wrote

Yeah, and why aren't babies and children represented in Goverment? They too make a % of the population. I mean, the article was about one thing but why not make it about completely another, amiright?

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fhota1 t1_itz9oak wrote

I dont even agree with the dudes point but "racial minorities are basically the same as children" is really not a good way to phrase yours

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