What are the places a colored person should avoid while visiting New Zealand on holiday?
Question by seolid.com: What are the places a colored person should avoid while visiting New Zealand on holiday?
Well. I’m not american , but mauritian of Euro-African origin. It will be my first holiday in New Zealand to visit some in-laws (my wife’s sister & family ) and i’ve been reading a bit about avoiding the South Island for example. So that’s why i’m asking whether there are other places that colored persons should avoid. I don’t only want to find out about places to visit but also places to avoid – if any.
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Answer by am38
As a “coloured person” you’ll be better treated than the honkies.
Honestly what sort of question is this? What colour are you? This is a vaguely foreign concept to NZ’ers.
I kind of understand what you are asking, having travelled a bit I suspect you are american.
Regardless of SKIN colour, if you speak with an american accent in NZ you’ll be treated differently, but not necessarily badly.
EDIT: I’ve just been told you mean black skinned. Well, although we have a lot of brown, tanned and yellow skinned people, there are not many truley black skinned people. They tend to get stared at a bit, but people will be genuinely interested to know where you are from. Smaller towns will be most interested in you. Larger cities will ignore you more. Same as anywhere.
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LOL, avoid everywhere.
Seriously though, there are very few people of African origin in NZ (discounting white South Africans and Zimbabweans) and many people might struggle to deal with the presence of someone whose physical appearance is so alien.
I don’t think you need to avoid anywhere (except maybe Invercargill) or be too careful, but jut be aware that you look too different to what people are used to and they might have a problem with it. People won’t be malicious, they just might look at you twice or stand stunned for a few seconds before serving you, and you might not get looked in the eye. You will probably get cretins patronising you too.
I know you shouldn’t have to deal with this and it should be solely their problem and not yours, but if you’re engaging when you have to deal with people one on one and if you’re thick-skinned and confident about it you shouldn’t have any problems.
Enjoy New Zealand!
One of our family’s best friends is a nurse from Zimbabwe, and she looks unmistakably African.
We live in Dunedin, a city of 120.000 inhabitants, where she may well be one of only about 20 Africans.
She tells us people are great to her, and the only times anyone ever remarks on her looks is usually by people who know Africa and are keen to exchange knowledge and stories.
Really, don’t even think about it twice.
Just get on over here, you’ll feel fine.
You can go any where your heart desires in New Zealand and Australia. People will only dislike you if you behave badly and that goes for whites or any race too.
Totally disagree with dangerou. They are talking rubbish.
The only racist place is Christchurch, but that doesn’t mean you will necessarily encounter that if you go there. I’d just be careful there at night & only walk in well lit places with lots of people around. Anywhere else is fine. We do have African people here who are black, I work with a guy from Tanzania & alot of Somalian refugees have come here. I recently entered a race (a fun run called Round the Bays) which was for all Aucklanders & I saw African families there, the parents with their kids. If people looked at them it would only be through curiousity, not racism. I looked at them & then thought, I hope they don’t think I’m looking being racist as really I was admiring how good looking they were & their physique & thinking what nice families they looked like.
I have a relative married to a Mauritian, she is here with her family & they are of Indian appearance. They’ve travelled all over NZ without problem, including to Christchurch. Don’t worry about it, Auckland in particular is very multicultural, it’s 50% non white. Also remember there are alot of brown people here (Maori’s & Pacific Islanders). Yes the South Island is mostly white people, but that doesn’t mean you’re going to encounter racism. We don’t have racist groups like the Ku Klux Klan in the USA or political parties like the National Front in France & Germany.