North, N. (2007) The Employment of Immigrants in New Zealand: The Attitudes, Policies, Practices and Experiences of Employers, New Settlers Programme Occasional Publication No.18. New Settlers Programme, Massey University, Palmerston North

The above may be of interest to some. I used info from it in a research paper I had done a while ago but I wouldn't dare copying & pasting/reproducing from the report onto this public website due to its copyright protection. However it's available online at:

http://newsettlers.massey.a...f769f312c98b0f554

from where you can access the pdf.file - if you scroll about halfway down the webpage.

You, KiwiOO may find it of particular interest. Local research done/funded by your very own people. It's 3+ years old though but as a general rule things change very slowly, if at all in NZ. You can live in hope I guess.

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Stuck in the mud

Great Study! Very interesting ready and the conclusion that there is a very strong paradox is telling of this culture.

Problem is I don't care, I'm a busy man. If you want to pick a fight you can fight your own fight. Couldn't really give a **** what someone else on a chat forum wants or thinks. I have far more important things in my life.

Oh no, not the 2nd dramatic flouncing of the day. You sure do a lot of forum posting for such a busy man.

(tosses hair and flounces off to be busy).

Good find Pluto, I've had a quick skim through it and there's some good information there. I wonder if/when they'll review it.

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New Zealand. People who live in plaster houses shouldn't throw stones.

See, they just don't like tall poppies, they like'm dumb, quiet and willing ! Just like their sheeples!

I'm the lucky one who got the job because of the high qualification, even though people at work they like to pretend that "experience is more important than qualification" and use that as an excuse to feel they are superior.

In general they do like a reason to treat foreigners like crap. One day a dumb NZ cow was joking with the other people about me not understanding rugby (actually I do, it's not rocket science like these kiwis think it is). When they have lower qualification and less language ability, and by law they cannot be openly racist, this is what they resort to.

NZ: puny country, but full of bitches.

Yeah, they stick by the law usually, but you wouldn't believe what I've been called over the years and how nasty these sheeple can become when intoxicated or in a frenzy. They resort to much worse things than calling somebody a "know nothing" about rugby, even so in their mind that might be the worst one can be called. I've been even physically attacked several times, never in a fair one to one, allways by several others of these nastys!
Lucky I can take an give a punch and I'm ususlaly pretty confident and staunch, without that these bitches surely would have dealt to me allready and I would have left this country for good, perhaps in a box. In situations at work, they can be especially nasty when it comes to protect their zone or status quo due to justified criticism towards them and their performance. They don't like anything foreign, thats what I know after 20 years ! At the very best, they are just curious about it to find out if it suits them in a positive way, they are sniffing it out and analyze it before they decide to dump it anyway. A very ancient and instinctive way of dealing with new and strange things that can still be observed by anthropologists in remote and unexplored parts of the world during encounters with the natives. Said and done !!!