NEW ZEALAND SOCIETY: ITS CHARACTERISTICS

NEW ZEALAND SOCIETY: ITS CHARACTERISTICS

If it is valid to assume that the character and characteristics of a people are shaped mainly by racial origin and environment, there are facts about the European settlement of New Zealand, the influence of novel conditions of living upon the settlers, which may assist our attempts to trace and explain the evolution of New Zealand society into what it has become today.

• NEW ZEALAND SOCIETY: ITS CHARACTERISTICS

• An Equalitarian Society

• Educational Advantages

• Rule of Conformity

• Limitations of Urban Life

• The Appeal of Sport

• Place of the Arts

• The Puritan Tradition

• The Effects of Insularity

• Maori-Pakeha Relations

Warning

This information was published in 1966 in An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand, edited by A. H. McLintock. It has not been corrected and will not be updated.

Up-to-date information can be found elsewhere in Te Ara.