Backbencher

In lecture six we discussed many topics relating Australia and New Zealand to the pride that they take for the people and the land. We talked about many things in this lecture including the some of the mythologies, legends, the land and the sports that have become native games. We talked a lot about the sports and how the people find their purpose in this world through sports. In America, we define our success on economics and army power while countries like New Zealand find their success through sports (All Blacks). By competing and beating the superpower countries, it makes them feel like they are superior.
I really enjoyed talking about the land and how the people of New Zealand took something that wasn’t good for production and turned it into a great place for fantasy. I also really like hearing how the land takes such great pride in their sports. Because they don’t have the land that is full of minerals or natural resources or an overflowing population they don’t have too many raw materials to work with. They do take a positive focus, however, by finding out that the land would be very productive to sell Hollywood for pictures. They also know that they don’t excel in discoveries or technology so they focus on the sports.
If I could ask one question I would like to know if the immigrants of Australia and New Zealand conform to the ways and views of the land. Also, are there pockets of strong cultural diversity in these two countries like there are in America where we have places like China town, or how the cities have more African Americans than the suburbs, or how down south, there is a large population of Spanish Immigrants.