WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand’s Asian population is growing faster than any other ethnic group and will outnumber indigenous Maori by 2026, government figures released Wednesday showed.
The findings drew the ire of an anti-immigrant party that contends the door should be shut on Asian immigrants, claiming they do not integrate into mainstream society.
“If we continue this open door policy there is real danger we will be inundated with people who have no intention of integrating into our society. The greater the number, the greater the risk,” New Zealand First Party deputy leader Peter Brown said.
Ethnic Affairs Minister Chris Carter condemned the comments.
“I think he’s absolutely being racist,” Carter said. “He shouldn’t be condemning people because of their race or culture.”
The chief executive of the country’s Employers and Manufacturers Association, Alasdair Thompson, said Brown’s comments were “racial stereotyping of the worst sort.”
“We need our newer migrants. We don’t need Mr. Brown’s racism,” he said.
United Asian Association spokesman Ken Yee welcomed the figures, saying the projected rise in Asian numbers would mean “more color and cultural diversity” that would only be a good thing, National Radio reported.
New Zealand First currently has seven lawmakers in Parliament and is a support party in the governing coalition led by the center-left Labour Party. New Zealand First’s leader, Winston Peters, holds the post of foreign minister.
A general election is due by late November and Brown’s party, which has a long-standing policy against immigration, is garnering less than 5 percent of voter support nationwide in current polls.
According to government statistics, the nation’s four main ethnic populations of Maori, Pacific Islanders, Asian and ethnic European peoples will all increase in the next 18 years, with those identifying as Asian set to grow the most.
A projected increase of the Asian population by 3.4 percent a year, mainly by migration, over the period to 2026 would see the Asian population double from 400,000 in 2006 to 790,000 by 2026, according to government statistician Geoff Bascand.
Some 16 percent of New Zealand’s total population was expected to identify with Asian ethnicity by 2026, Bascand said. By then, New Zealand’s overall population was projected to be 5.5 million from the current 4.2 million.
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Looks like these immigrants cited in the article can only confirm they are Jewish employees.
It’s true enough,nobody wants to be bothered by other creeds and colours challenging normal perceptions.
It’s also bullshit if you look where these racist immigrants arise from.
What Jews are you talking about?Do you mean Hungarian billionaire Jew George Soros and American born Jew Barbra Lerner Specter?I don’t see how Jews would benefit from “wrecking”the U.S.A. with what ever means they might have.What does homosexuals have to do with this?
The Jews will wreck your nation with whatever means they have,typically a homosexual.
How many more hundreds of thousands or millions of immigrants and migrants does NZ need?The two islands are no more than about 80 miles from the interior of the land to the coast.Most of the land on both islands are either to mountainous to live on or the land is to valuable for agricultural use to be used for housing development.NZ will not become another heavily industrilized country like Canada or U.S.A or Germany because of strict environmental regulations.Environmentalist want to keep NZ’s environment “clean and green”.Why do people want to live in NZ?There is not much permanent employment and moving to NZ to start a new life without an adequate amount of money will not help the immigrants/migrants “hit the ground running” upon arrival to NZ.As long as NZ stays small in population,there will be that high quality of life style for people that have no problem with a “steady stream”of income to maintain that type of life style.Having more immigrants/migrants of different ethnicities and skin color doesn’t make a compatible society.Multiculturalism has severe limitations.Uneducated /radical Muslims and peasant Asians that don’t have money to buy a house and a net worth of let’s say one million
dollars or more should not be allowed into NZ.