Well, I'm no cop, but I always thought Asians and Euros were the ones involved in bigger drug trades, and as far as I know, the drug business was doing pretty well in NZ before they had hordes of rockapes with bandannas to peddle them. So I'm going with this answer: For people with either no sense of their culture to feel they belong, or no sense of family at home, "gangster" combined with the "cool" reputation it has these days, must have seemed like a pretty good option.
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