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>> NZ is a small, ethnically (and therefore more importantly culturally) homogenous country Not according to the CIA Factbook it isn't: NZ: European 71.2%, M

>> NZ is a small, ethnically (and therefore more importantly culturally) homogenous country Not according to the CIA Factbook it isn't: NZ: European 71.2%, Maori 14.1%, Asian 11.3%, Pacific peoples 7.6%, Middle Eastern, Latin American, African 1.1%, other 1.6%, not stated or unidentified 5.4% USA: white 72.4%, black 12.6%, Asian 4.8%, Amerindian and Alaska native 0.9%, native Hawaiian and other Pacific islander 0.2%, other 6.2%, two or more races 2.9% (2010 estimate) I would say almost quite comparable.

splintercell 9y ago
What about Hispanics? Where did you get that stat from, can you cite your source please?
dmurray 9y ago
Moreover, the Maori population was just as downtrodden and oppressed as the blacks of the USA, 50 or 100 years ago, and is still on the whole poorer and less educated than the white majority.
- darawk 9y ago
  Ya, I wasn't saying they have no ethnic or cohesion problems. Simply that they are smaller and more cohesive culturally than the US.
- gertef 9y ago
  Well sure, but they were natives that weren't part of the "culture" one pictures when one imagines an average New Zeala---ohhhhh
darawk 9y ago
That breakdown leaves Hispanics out of the US, which seems to me to be, a pretty enormous oversight. I imagine they're being lumped in with 'white'. If you break them out separately, I imagine you'll see quite a difference.
- weberc2 9y ago
  The US is something like 62% white when you don't conflate whites and Hispanics.
nyolfen 9y ago
the 'white' category in the US contains many more groups that would not be considered european on the NZ census, for instance hispanic and MENA ethnicities. the US is about 60% white by a categorization system closer to what is typically used informally.