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Article: Toward a bicultural education system: the experience of New Zealand. (Multiculuralism and Diversity)
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- National Forum
- Article date:
- January 1, 1994
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Geography textbooks of the 1940s and 1950s referred to New Zealand as the "Britain of the South Seas." Although the country's latitude is more analogous to California's, proximity to the ocean provides a temperate climate and rainy days reminiscent of those in England. New Zealand's British character was enhanced by the character of cities like Christchurch, with its European trees and gardens and greens where youth played cricket and rugby football. Politically and economically, the New Zealand of the 1940s and 1950s was tied
to Britain. New Zealand men readily volunteered to fight in European wars, and more than 80 percent of the nation's products were exported ...