Te Ara - "New Zealand Peoples"

[The Lawspeaker]

Te Ara - "New Zealand Peoples" (http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/new-zealand-peoples)


New Zealand was not known to Europeans until 1642. Over 150 years later, settlers started to arrive from England, Scotland and Ireland. The journey was long, arduous and uncomfortable, but they came in the hope of a better life. From the 20th century onwards, war, persecution and other troubles have led groups and individuals to migrate to New Zealand. Others have come by choice, seeking a change of lifestyle. Today’s New Zealanders celebrate a wide and varied heritage – from the Pacific, Europe, Asia, Africa and America.


It's clearly a government website and as PC as it gets but still very interesting. :thumbs up

[The Lawspeaker]

Dutch: (http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/dutch)

After discovering New Zealand in 1642, the Dutch explorer Abel Tasman set sail, never to return. This first European visitor could hardly have imagined that tens of thousands of his countrymen would eventually disembark there. It is a measure of New Zealand’s isolation that 310 years after Tasman, those post-war Dutch immigrants were the first continental Europeans many New Zealanders had seen. They suffered prejudice and homesickness, but they also injected innovation and sophistication into the culture, and produced some 100,000 descendants.

[poiuytrewq0987]

Dirty Dutch abandoning his homeland for New Zeeland.

[Albion]

Te ara comes across as quite multicultural but its interesting to read.