Unfortunately, Helen Clark has been able to form a government in New Zealand. However, she has had to turn to a couple of smaller, more right-wing parties to do it - including that of Winston Peters.
This should help curb her dabbling in social engineering legislation. It could also mean the government is quite volatile, with bitter public rifts - especially as the next election approaches. Maybe this government won't see out its full three-year term.
And apologies if this story hasn't been posted quite right - it's the first time I've given it a go.
"they think it is an outrageous mistake to let too many immigrants alter a country's ethnic make-up."
Seems reasonable to me.
In Japan, they fingerprint you, make you carry around a special "foreigner" card. If you fail to carry it with you, rest assured a policeman will take you to the nearest little "policebox" to sort things out. And you cannot buy a bicycle or rent a movie video without displaying the card.
Immigrate? Ha! You must be joking...!
For anyone in Asia to call these NZ observations as somehow xenophobia is the hight of hypocracy...