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Is New Zealand in equal society?
Gender, class, race, wealth, education, indigenous values, suffrage, war, media platforms, free speech, proportional representation, ethnic divide, abuse, poverty, age, sport.
“Immigrants from many countries have chosen to settle and contribute to New Zealand’s society. However, it was only in the 1970s and 1980s that our immigration policy stopped favouring European descendants and began accepting immigrants on the basis of skills, financial assets and family relationships.”
Chinese had first arrived in numbers during the 1860s gold rushes.
Chinese were officially prescribed as foreign ‘race aliens’. They could not become naturalised New Zealand citizens (from 1908 to 1952) and had to pay a poll tax (between 1881 and 1944) if they were allowed to enter the country.
They were not able to vote or participate in political arenas until 1952, were excluded from state employment, and were barred from entering many professional occupations.
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