Resolved Question

Would you change your ethnicity if you could?

Well... I was born into a "white" family in New Zealand, and in my mid-teens we moved to a farm in an area of the country which had about 30% Maori population; and I became great friends with a Maori boy with whom I went to school on the school bus every school day. I "recognised" him somehow (I think from a past life connection) and I would have given ANYTHING then to have been born a Maori! I read books about Maoris and the early days of NZ settlers, joined a Maori Club, tried to learn Maori language, and for about two or three decades was simply "enamoured" by the culture of Maoritanga (Maori-ness)...

I am still a great fan of things Polynesian, and there is a reason for that too - my extended genetic lineages are about 63% Polynesian, although my immediate ethnicity is strongly "white Caucasian". However, I realise now that I was born into the family and ethnicity that I was born into, for a reason; and thus there is little point in changing that, because it is "who I was meant to be" this time round, and fits the requirements of this life. There are things I have done in life which would have been difficult or impossible had I been a Maori.