On May 7th, 1856, New Zealand became its own island country in Oceania. I've never been to New Zealand, but when I think of New Zealand, I think of Wellington, MTV'c Challenge: The Duel 2, cold weather, beautiful mountains, sheep, grassy hills, the Tasman Sea, volcanoes, and socialism.
When you Think of New Zealand, What is the First Thing That Comes to Your Mind?
Ah, but are they REALLY? While they may have more public assistance than some other places, according to the Heritage Foundation and the Wall Street Journal, there is *less* government interference and it is actually *easier* to do business there than it is in the USA!
Of course, this leads to questions of how this is measured and weighted. The Wall Street Journal, for example, foolishly believes in mass migrations of people and "open borders" (never mind what this in the end does to overall economic regulation), but anyway, check it out.
@jmstarling Except that *never* happens. And even lots of public assistance only works out well with culturally homogenous populations, as the Swedes and other Euros are starting to learn.
@Tomblebee Capitalism is an economic system in which wealthy capitalists own the means of production and run it for profit at the expense of everyone else. Socialism is when the means of production are owned in common for the benefit of everyone.
@EnglishArtsteacher - you have 'no idea' but just assumed we (New Zealand) are Socialistic?
Why would you 'just assume' ? That's not what teachers do, right?
And what actually is 'socialistic' in your view?
We (NZ) currently have a Labour Party-led government (akin to the US Democrat Party) and prior to thst we had a National Party government (with similarities to the Republican Party) for 9 years 2008-2017)
The Soviet Union was Socialistic, as was the DDR (Eat Germany) as well as Yugoslavia and most of Eastern Europe -- and China before it became a capitalist economy ! Germany, France, the UK and many other countries have social welfare for their citizens, even the US has some social welfare too.
As I said in an earlier response we are a capitalist country with social welfare -- but we are not "Socialistic" !
Gorgeous scenery - especially on the South Island. I was lucky enough to get to visit there once. It was all nice, but I especially enjoyed the South Island with the spectacular mountain scenery and glaciers. I hope to go back some day. The flight there from the US is really really long though.
@EnglishArtsteacher : you said "I've never been to New Zealand, but when I think of New Zealand, I think of Wellington, MTV'c Challenge: The Duel 2, cold weather, beautiful mountains, sheep, grassy hills, the Tasman Sea, volcanoes, and socialism"
Why just Wellington? Sure, it's the capital but Auckland is the major metropolis (population 1.6 million) with the biggest Polynesian population of any city in the world !
And why do you think of cold weather? The northern region is pretty much sub-tropical, and other regions get hot summers, cool winters !
Also, why do you think of just the Tasman Sea? Take a look at the map you attached -- we're situated in the South Pacific Ocean !
Yes, we have mountains, volcanoes, grassy hills (but native-tree clad hills as well) and sheep too.
We also have long summers, vineyards, avocado orchards, kiwi-fruit orchards, beautiful beaches, native birds including the unique Kiwi...
... and you didn't mention Lord Of The Rings !
And we are a capitalist country, with social welfare !
Sorry to pick you up on all these things but if you are a teacher you will appreciate the necessity of correcting any incorrect/incomplete understanding !
@Tomblebee haha indeed it most certainly does not, those are just the first things that came to my mind. My mind is odd in that it tends to associate two or more seemingly unrelated things. Like Egypt and Spiderman:
Kiwis, very similar to UK like with police and street and house design. I saw a police programme that was in NZ and everything including police looked exactly like the UK.. It was like i was seeing a road in my own town.
Cute accents tho right? eh eh? Police ten 7? Or road cops.. or border patrol.. We have a few cop shows.. They show them in other countries? Thats news to my ears..
@Tomblebee Yes i do like the accent, new a Kiwi once worked with him, and we have all three shows, we have a channel that shows lots of Aussie and Kiwi shows.
Wow, that is NOT what I was trying to say! 😳 I was implying that New Zealand has more sheep per acre/hectare than anywhere else in the world. I actually remember that from a report I did in grade school as a kid. I wasn't talking about that at all! I just put the "lol" and smiling emoticon because I didn't want anyone here from New Zealand to think I was being overly-stereotypical of that fact. My apologies if I offended you, but I certainly didn't mean anything by it because that's not what I implied at all.
@Tomblebee : I have read that it's difficult to emigrate to NZ, and I figured the probably reason, is that people like their life style and their culture, and are not interested in it changing. That is their right, and it makes sense if change is neither needed or desired.
70'000 ... IMmigrated in one year.. recond high.. there's ony like 4 mill here.. Isn't that a lot? Wait emmigrate to NZ.. BaajajajajajJHAHAH. Isn't emmigration leaving..
@Tomblebee I'm still lost. Australia is on the edge of the map, right? So you on the very right, like off to the right of the map? Or on the other side of the map by like um.. that big one on that side? China or India I think.
@Tomblebee Cool. And no, but I know very rightest. And Australia. So... wait. You're not that little island by Tasmania are you? Crap, I know that one! That's the one with a bunch of mountains and cool looking like plains and landscapes and stuff, right? I saw a flyover of that like two years ago on the TV! Well now I feel stupid. Your island looks really nice I bet sunrises look awesome.
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