Will you also do a piece looking at NZ emigration? The ABS estimates there is about 638,000 New Zealand-born people in Australia. That’s about 12% of NZ’s domestic population.
Emigration is changing the country quite dramatically - ethnically and socially. Your comments on NZ having a safetyist culture are correct. I would also add that it’s very conformist. Emigration is reinforcing these tendencies as those who leave tend to be more enterprising, adventurous and individualistic.
Kiwi here. My observation is that we, as in our national 'character', seem to be distinctively restless, say in comparison to Canada ie compared to Canada, while we have high inward migration we have considerably higher [than Canada] outward migration to our adjacent larger neighbour.
I see this also in my own family and in my wider kin.
Though I do agree, who we allow in does affect, maybe even determine, national 'character'.
How do you reconcile New Zealand's heritage with "men of nerve" with the results of its immigration policy that "selected for safety-ists"? If I had to, post-hoc, try to reconcile the two things, I might think New Zealanders are not lacking in courage, and eager to fight together, when answering the call of duty, but tend not to engage in cut-throat competition with each other. That reconciliation still cuts against portraying its immigration policy as "selected for safety-ists" though. Selecting for brave conformists, perhaps.
My grandparents were a mixed marriage: Anglican into Catholic. My mother still has a big chip on her shoulder about subtle mistreatment her family got as Catholics. But none of those stories extend into her adult life and if she had not told them I'd find them hard to credit given conditions now. I don't know what changed but Vatican II might have been a large factor.
So, yes, religious discrimination was low, but not invisible. Not like it is now. Except for the cults (seclusionist sects and religious communes), who are treated with suspicion. Hmm, now there's an interesting parallel I hadn't considered before...
Will you also do a piece looking at NZ emigration? The ABS estimates there is about 638,000 New Zealand-born people in Australia. That’s about 12% of NZ’s domestic population.
Emigration is changing the country quite dramatically - ethnically and socially. Your comments on NZ having a safetyist culture are correct. I would also add that it’s very conformist. Emigration is reinforcing these tendencies as those who leave tend to be more enterprising, adventurous and individualistic.
I shall not, but good point!
Kiwi here. My observation is that we, as in our national 'character', seem to be distinctively restless, say in comparison to Canada ie compared to Canada, while we have high inward migration we have considerably higher [than Canada] outward migration to our adjacent larger neighbour.
I see this also in my own family and in my wider kin.
Though I do agree, who we allow in does affect, maybe even determine, national 'character'.
How do you reconcile New Zealand's heritage with "men of nerve" with the results of its immigration policy that "selected for safety-ists"? If I had to, post-hoc, try to reconcile the two things, I might think New Zealanders are not lacking in courage, and eager to fight together, when answering the call of duty, but tend not to engage in cut-throat competition with each other. That reconciliation still cuts against portraying its immigration policy as "selected for safety-ists" though. Selecting for brave conformists, perhaps.
It's a great point !
Link to Park 6 is broken
thnx
My grandparents were a mixed marriage: Anglican into Catholic. My mother still has a big chip on her shoulder about subtle mistreatment her family got as Catholics. But none of those stories extend into her adult life and if she had not told them I'd find them hard to credit given conditions now. I don't know what changed but Vatican II might have been a large factor.
So, yes, religious discrimination was low, but not invisible. Not like it is now. Except for the cults (seclusionist sects and religious communes), who are treated with suspicion. Hmm, now there's an interesting parallel I hadn't considered before...