What is it to be a New Zealander?
Being a New Zealander has some similarities and differences from being a Chilean. Being a New Zealander implies being a kind, generous and unprejudiced person.
New Zealand’s society has more than one culture in it, maori, asians, etc. And they all live together and they don’t care about your skin color, appearance, etc. They are a multicultural society.
One aspect of New Zealand is their way of eating, at breakfast they don’t eat a lot, at lunch they eat a sandwich and when they eat dinner, they eat a lot, it is an important moment for them because they can share a moment with their families and talk about their day.
New Zealand is also a safe place, the people that live in here don’t steal, for example in the subway, people leave their phones charging and then they go somewhere else and when they come back they will still be there (everyone knows in Chile that won’t happen), stealing isn’t part of their society as it is in Chile.
In New Zealand they also take care of their cities and green areas, if you walk in Wellington, it is really weird to see trash or anything written on the walls, it is a really clean place.
Between Chile and New Zealand we can find both cultural and social differences and also similarities.
First we can start with a difference, the aborigin culture in Chile is the Mapuche culture and in New Zealand they are the Maori, in NZ they respect a lot that culture and the Maori also have influence in politics, also the society accepts them, but in Chile the Mapuche are not respected and there a lot of problems with them.
Another difference between Chile and New Zealand is that in NZ Dinner is really important, because it is the moment that all the family is together, they can talk and share things about their day. At breakfast time and lunch they don't eat a lot, that is not the same as Chile because the most important time to eat for us is lunch and at dinner we don't eat too much.
Also we were colonized by the spanish empire and they were conquered by the british empire so we have alot of different foods, habits and sports. Two examples of that is that they eat fish and chips that is a typical food from England, also they play cricket and rugby.
The most important difference for me is that New Zeland is a really secure place and also it is realy clean because no one writes things in the walls(grafitti).
A similarity is the weather because it is really windy and it is simiar to the weather at the south of Chile.
