Community Engagement Report for developing a National Action Plan Against Racism Racism uses race as the basis for prejudice and power at interpersonal, institutional and internalised levels. • Interpersonal racism relates to omissions, remarks, and actions toward someone based on unfounded assumptions about their perceived race. • Institutional racism refers to society’s structures and institutions advantaging one group at the expense of others, based on race. In Aotearoa our structures and institutions work for the collective benefit of Pākehā rather than Māori, or the ethnic minorities. This manifests in the inequities across sectors such as education, health, justice, housing, employment, and wellbeing. • Internalised racism refers to people, stigmatised because of their race, accepting those negative ideas and messages about themselves. Tangata Whenua means ‘people of the land’ in te reo Māori and recognises Māori as the Indigenous first peoples of Aotearoa. Tangata whenuatanga relates to whakapapa connections, cultural identity, language, cultural awareness and knowledge of the whenua, or distinct boundaries of land that Māori come from. New Zealand Human Rights Commission Tangata Tiriti means ‘people of the Treaty of Waitangi’ in te reo Māori. It refers to all people who have migrated to Aotearoa and are not Tangata Whenua. This term recognises that te Tiriti provides people who are not Tangata Whenua with a ‘place to stand’ in Aotearoa. Because this term includes Pākehā, we have also used the umbrella term ‘ethnic Tangata Tiriti’ to distinguish the experiences of ethnic minorities, including Pacific peoples. Te Tiriti o Waitangi is the text of the Treaty of Waitangi in te reo Māori. It differs in significant ways to the English-language version. We have referred to te Tiriti throughout this report, as this is the version that the majority of Tangata Whenua signed and understood. The Waitangi Tribunal has recognised the te reo Māori version as the principal text. White privilege is the inter-generational political, economic, social, and cultural benefits and advantages that colonial settlers accumulated through the appropriation of Indigenous lands, natural resources and wealth. In the case of Aotearoa, white privilege collectively benefits Pākehā as a group while disadvantaging others, particularly Tangata Whenua. White supremacy is the presumed superiority of whiteness, that is white culture and norms. In the case of Aotearoa, this refers to the presumed superiority of Pākehā norms and values, e.g. the Westminster-based government. It is a means of maintaining institutional control of political, religious and other systems. 9