Thursday, 20 September 2012
Conclusion
There are obvious negative impacts involving immigrants brought on by arriving in New Zealand and failing to assimilate into society whether the cultural differences are minimal, or the differences are enormous. The New Zealand Government really needs to rethink who they let into the country and just how much impact that they can have on society. After all, the concept of multiculturalism in society just so happens to be much more difficult to implement and if it's not done carefully, the results can be devastating.
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Very interesting blog (I especially liked the line that you would ban clothes in public, very funny). I'm not sure that I agree with all that you are saying, but you give some good points.
ReplyDeleteAbbey =)
Just sharing a little knowledge of mine about this matter. The problem of immigration and the changes it is causing in our culture can be approached from many different angles. We could speak about the redefinition of America as a multicultural society instead of as a nation; or the permanent establishment of affirmative action programs for immigrants based on their race; or the town in Texas that declared Spanish its official language; or the thousands of Hispanics at an international soccer match in Los Angeles who booed and threw garbage at the American team; or the decline in educational and Environmental standards in areas dominated by Hispanics; or the Hmong people from Laos who bring shamans and witch doctors into hospital rooms. These are all example of the negative effects of multiple cultures :)
ReplyDeleteThis topic is interesting. (For my opinion is everything have the good things and bad things, espcially the culture. i'm agree what you said, but sometimes we need to think the postive. like other country culture immigrant to NZ, for those who can't travel to other countries people can let them feel other countries culture festival. )
ReplyDeleteHi Sam,
ReplyDeleteI agree with you on many things, but when this subject is approached all elements need to be addressed.
Firstly the loss of cultural identity. I'm not even sure I know what our cultural identity is and yes it is a result of too many cultures migrating to New Zealand, but until we can safely say what our beliefs, traditions, customs etc have been established there is no point in trying to deal with the immigrant problem.
Secondly the point you made about fast food restaurants and the like was kind of hypocritical in a sense that Kiwis are responsible for allowing other cultures to have these business's and gangs, but furthermore these people come from countries where it is almost impossible to get jobs so they would happily clean the sidewalks or run a chinese restaurant. They do the jobs we take for granted and we can sit around blaming them for how there are too many of them affecting our cultural identity, but who are we to argue when we ignore the jobs they would happily do - and for a cheap rate.
Over all i find your argument to be a real problem in New Zealand and I often find myself (being Maori) at a loss amongst all these other cultures, but we should first come up with a strong foundation before assuming that immigrants are the problem to our loss of cultural identity.
Rukuwai
Hey sam, i just partly agree with you.
ReplyDeletefirstly, we real need to keep own characteristic culture, and inheritan it. The diversity culture is rarity of world.
secondly, the asimmilate has advantage to our wolrd, that is reduce conflict between different countries with diff culture.