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You're totally off your rocker dingo brains.
Meaning #1 as you posted indicates that which I said.
No, you said anyone born in the country is a native of and therefore indigenous to it.
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1. originating in and characteristic of a particular region or country; native (often followed by to ):
Has quite a DIFFERENT meaning, which I understand may not be immediately obvious to the less sharp among us (you).
Because someone was born in a place does not mean they 'originated' there or are characteristic of that place.
If an Indian were born in NZ do you think he would be Characteristic of NZ?