There are entire sections of this essay which more eloquently express an argument that I’ve made many times about how colonial cultures are formed and how SA and NZ feel very familiar - so naturally I completely agree with this and it’s obviously correct, no notes
Excellent, but New Zealand only reached gender ratio parity on the eve of world war one, so I'm surprised that you consider it broadly at parity in its early years.
When I looked at one of my ancestors who had thirteen children half the boys never married.
Been working on something very similar based around Erewhon and NZ-as-utopian-experiment, but happy to be scooped by this excellent work. Can't believe I spent my whole life in NZ and never realised Fischer wrote a whole book on us!
I do find it strange to write an anthropology or history of NZ without mentioning Australia where 25% of them live and work, which has given them and no other people in the last 50 years free movement and which quite possibly has made the entire project viable over many of those last 50 years.
See also: Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act 1900, s6:
"The States shall mean such of the colonies of New South Wales, New Zealand, Queensland, Tasmania,
Victoria, Western Australia, and South Australia, including the northern territory of South Australia, as for
the time being are parts of the Commonwealth, and such colonies or territories as may be admitted into or
established by the Commonwealth as States; and each of such parts of the Commonwealth shall be called a
Politically progressive but a minuscule population of European invaders who transformed a Garden of Eden into an open air factory farm in two generations.
what the fuck, the distance between australia and new zealand I never would have guessed. if you'd said perth to wellington I'd have thought "hmm sounds about right"
also the century and a half of subsidized colonization explains something that was always confounding to me about australia, namely the willingness to surrender guns and embrace covid restrictions. my confusion had always been "these guys descend from ex-cons why aren't they even more freedom-obsessed as us!"
I do agree with your view on founder effects strongly. when I first moved from new england to new york I was shocked at how different the values were, and puzzled it for years until arriving at new york having retained a more freewheeling dutch merchant culture despite becoming "english" very early in its history
reading the maori one now immediately, as a bigtime "austronesians are faustian" believer
There are entire sections of this essay which more eloquently express an argument that I’ve made many times about how colonial cultures are formed and how SA and NZ feel very familiar - so naturally I completely agree with this and it’s obviously correct, no notes
Thank you sir!
Excellent, but New Zealand only reached gender ratio parity on the eve of world war one, so I'm surprised that you consider it broadly at parity in its early years.
When I looked at one of my ancestors who had thirteen children half the boys never married.
Been working on something very similar based around Erewhon and NZ-as-utopian-experiment, but happy to be scooped by this excellent work. Can't believe I spent my whole life in NZ and never realised Fischer wrote a whole book on us!
Instantly NZ-pilled me!
fwiw i’m descended from the first wave of Canterbury anglicans and all the posts ring true so far. eg Pakeha really is an everyday word.
I also wrote about the obverse, Aus from the NZ perspective, here: https://stoates.substack.com/p/review-sydney
Great essay. Nice one
Outstanding essay.
Thanks… hopefully rest of series works!
I do find it strange to write an anthropology or history of NZ without mentioning Australia where 25% of them live and work, which has given them and no other people in the last 50 years free movement and which quite possibly has made the entire project viable over many of those last 50 years.
See also: Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act 1900, s6:
"The States shall mean such of the colonies of New South Wales, New Zealand, Queensland, Tasmania,
Victoria, Western Australia, and South Australia, including the northern territory of South Australia, as for
the time being are parts of the Commonwealth, and such colonies or territories as may be admitted into or
established by the Commonwealth as States; and each of such parts of the Commonwealth shall be called a
State."
Politically progressive but a minuscule population of European invaders who transformed a Garden of Eden into an open air factory farm in two generations.
what the fuck, the distance between australia and new zealand I never would have guessed. if you'd said perth to wellington I'd have thought "hmm sounds about right"
also the century and a half of subsidized colonization explains something that was always confounding to me about australia, namely the willingness to surrender guns and embrace covid restrictions. my confusion had always been "these guys descend from ex-cons why aren't they even more freedom-obsessed as us!"
I do agree with your view on founder effects strongly. when I first moved from new england to new york I was shocked at how different the values were, and puzzled it for years until arriving at new york having retained a more freewheeling dutch merchant culture despite becoming "english" very early in its history
reading the maori one now immediately, as a bigtime "austronesians are faustian" believer
I’m in Australia/NZ this month, so it’s perfect timing for this. Excellent as always