Is it particularly easy for people to emigrate to New Zealand?
There’s been a real huge wave of immigration into New Zealand in the last five or six years. And that was the other thing that kind of propelled my interest in the story, you know, because you could see that there are sort of tensions and conflicts starting to generate in the community. And ethnic prejudice starts to come out of the closet as this new wave of migration wasn’t white, it wasn’t English, it was predominantly Asian. And these people– especially the poor Asian migrants are incredibly hard-working and have a completely different ethic. Most white New Zealanders are very complacent about their life style. They have an expectation that they will have a very good lifestyle without actually having to work very hard for it. So here are these Chinese migrants coming into the country, and they start with nothing and they work and they work and they work and they save and they save, and then they get somewhere really quickly. And there’s a bit of resentment in the established commu
