In 1853, Edward Gibbon Wakefield created a plan to settle Chinese in New Zealand, as coolie labor, before it was shot down by Parliament. Suppose that the idea passed, what would the effects of a larger Chinese population have on the colonization of New Zealand?
Wasn't New Zealand ultimately the most liberal out of the White Dominions? With more Chinese New Zealanders I can see them becoming more conservative as a reaction to the trend.
I mean I suppose it was "liberal" compared to the other white dominions, if by liberal you mean not committing genocide against the aborigines like in Australia or racist segregation in South Africa, or forced assimilation of indigenous people in Canada.Wasn't New Zealand ultimately the most liberal out of the White Dominions? With more Chinese New Zealanders I can see them becoming more conservative as a reaction to the trend.
Yeah, that's pretty much how all the other Commonwealth countries went. Speaking of which I would think that the British would tell the Chinese New Zealanders to keep their traps shut about China or else the Anglo-Japanese Treaty would be put in jeopardy. It would get kind of awkward to be part of an empire actively supporting the invaders of one's homeland.Eh, NZ was very anti Chinese for a very long time. There is a reason why PM Clark felt it necessary to apologise to the NZ Chinese population a decade ago.
The poll tax for one was in place till ww2.
NZ very much had a white British only policy till the 60s-70s and those who were not such largely got in before the policy hardened or as a consequence of ww2.
http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/a-poll-tax-of-10-pounds-on-chinese-arrivals-in-new-zealand-is-introduced