For any country, it is important to foster a sense of nationality and have each ethnic group lives in harmony with each other. Bearing with itself a history of colonisation, New Zealand is a country of immigrants. Contextualised in this reality, integration between different cultures and ethnic groups is particularly crucial, fraught with complexities and corresponding challenges. Facing this complexity, simplification in the representation of each culture seems inevitable. Coming from somewhere with a different cultural and political reality, I would like to reflect on the experience I have relating to my national and cultural identity in New Zealand.
