G'morning Bob, 

 MM> NZ has both Dutch and Africaans immigrants - and they all
 MM> work hard and earnestly,  becoming successful NZers....
 MM> very strange !

 BK>  Every group works hard and earnestly, if the rewards are there.
 BK>  If there are no rewards, there is on reason to work hard and
 BK>  earnestly.

And immigrant groups tend to work harder than residents - they 
come to succeed, they bring different work habits and getting 
established is a priority.  Residents are already "in", share the 
local work habits and urgencies and accept the mythical things 
that "can't be done".

The differences always spell trouble.  I watched a wave of Italian 
immirgrants go through all sorts of trouble settling into 
Australia - they're part of the population now -  and the very 
different hassles the '60s wave of Dutch had settling into NZ.

The Dutch brought determination, enormous learning capacities and 
little capital;  the locals found them easy to ignore for ten 
years,  when all of a sudden the rewards of working very hard, 
learning NZ English and building resources started to pay off big.

The outbursts of racism prompted then by naturalised Dutch land- 
and business-owners was extraordinary !

We have a wave of Asian immigrants now beginning to bank on their 
own industries here,  and the reaction from traditional NZers is 
comparatively muted.

The more groups a country gets,  the less reaction is generated;  
in Australia and New Zealand after WW2,  both populations had real 
trouble getting to grips with the "hard and earnest" workings of 
newcomers...

:-))
 
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