New Zealand Has More Ethnicities Than The World Has Countries so it seems
Dec 20th 2013, 9:09 pm
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New Zealand Has More Ethnicities Than The World Has Countries so it seems
From this BE article HERE which you may find interesting
Ethnic diversity is increasing in New Zealand. According to the latest 2013 Census results, released this week,
Dec 20th 2013, 9:32 pm
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Re: New Zealand Has More Ethnicities Than The World Has Countries so it seems
Wales didn't even get a mention 
Dec 20th 2013, 10:17 pm
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Re: New Zealand Has More Ethnicities Than The World Has Countries so it seems
Welsh were on the list; 3,963 of you apparently.
Hardly surprising there are more ethnicities than countries is it
159 Cornish
87 Gypsies
33 Gaelic
24 Shetland Islanders
6 Orkney Islanders
and more worrying 225 that didn't know.
Hardly surprising there are more ethnicities than countries is it
159 Cornish
87 Gypsies
33 Gaelic
24 Shetland Islanders
6 Orkney Islanders
and more worrying 225 that didn't know.
Dec 21st 2013, 12:12 am
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Re: New Zealand Has More Ethnicities Than The World Has Countries so it seems
Dec 21st 2013, 1:39 pm
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Re: New Zealand Has More Ethnicities Than The World Has Countries so it seems
At a end of year do the guest speaker was Prof. from Massey Uni and who mentioned that Auckland is the most diverse city in the world. 60% of its population are either migrants or children of migrants.
Dec 21st 2013, 5:51 pm
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Re: New Zealand Has More Ethnicities Than The World Has Countries so it seems
It's funny to think about this in respect to the UK in which has about half the rate per capita yet spends a lot more time "worrying about immigrants" (in the Daily Mail sense of the term).
Maybe we should join the EU?
Maybe we should join the EU?
Dec 21st 2013, 7:49 pm
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Re: New Zealand Has More Ethnicities Than The World Has Countries so it seems
p.s when we moved into this house there was a coal bunker full of the stuff and it took me ages to get rid of it!
Dec 21st 2013, 7:50 pm
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Re: New Zealand Has More Ethnicities Than The World Has Countries so it seems
Dec 21st 2013, 9:19 pm
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Re: New Zealand Has More Ethnicities Than The World Has Countries so it seems
Perhaps if the population of NZ was already 60 million and another couple of million people had arrived in the last few years, NZ might not be so comfortable about it?
