Immigration is crucial to both New Zealand’s economy and its culture.
New Zealand is suffering from the same slow moving demographic crisis as the rest of the developed world: people are living longer thanks to better food, lifestyle and healthcare, and they’re having less babies, and having them later in life.
This means that our working age population of native-born New Zealanders is shrinking relative to the size of the population that’s retired. This has two consequences. Firstly the economy depends on the size of the workforce more than almost any other single factor, so unless NZ born parents start having more than 2.1 children on average (the replacement rate for a population - NZ’s current birth rate is 2.05) the population will stay the same or decline. This means the economy will struggle to maintain its current growth rate, let alone break out from its sub 2% average of the last 30 years.
It also means that absent immigration, a progressively smaller working age population has to support a progressively larger retired cohort - the Baby Boomers. This either means much higher taxes, a capital gains tax, or less pensions and healthcares for older people. It’s a very zero sum equation.
Culturally, New Zealand was extremely white and conservative up until the 60’s when the country started allowing Polynesian immigrants from countries such as Fiji, Samoa, and Tonga in in greater numbers, largely as laborers. They didn’t make up a significant proportion of the population until roughly the 80’s/90’s however, when we also started allowing immigration in much greater numbers from South East Asia. Think Japan, China, Taiwan, Korea, and Vietnam.
The food, fashion, art, theater, and music was arguably pretty one dimensional in New Zealand up until the late 80’s/early 90’s, when we started to enjoy a much greater variety and choice in the aforementioned cultural areas thanks to our larger immigrant population, and greater embrace of Maori culture. (Caucasians are immigrants to NZ too remember.)
All that said, on balance New Zealand has benefited immensely from our greater diversity, the infusion of immigrant’s intellectual capital, and our more cosmopolitan society, both culturally and economically. While we should continue to be very choosy about who we allow to come and live in New Zealand - immigration is crucial to New Zealand’s ongoing prosperity and quality of life.
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