He gave the indigenous that feeling of chauvinism reserved for only certain groups. Plus you have the pther problem that New Zealands social democracy is a rotting kind of chauvinistic socialism. A socialism in one state in a world at constant competitive trade warring standoffs all conspires to make the likes of Peters in a country, where the emotional left made concessions in the name of social justice, a ready breeding ground of chauvinistic ideas and Peters tapped into them and basically cemented a portion of the Maori with whites into a bizarre nationalism. Back in South Africa, the Nats and Buthelezi tried a similar stunt just as apartheid toppled over.