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This is my next contribution to New Zealand’s super diverse future. The status quo is not sustainable. Superdiversity stocktake, which I would talk to you about now is designed to help us to adapt to a super diverse New Zealand. To make sure that we are foot for the future. Because New Zealand is super diverse right now. Predominantly in Auckland, but actually throughout New Zealand. Here, we are already 50 percent Maori, Pacific and Asian. 44 percent are not born in New Zealand. And we have over two hundred ethnicities. Now the definition academically of super-diversity is 25 percent are born in New Zealand a hundred ethnicities. So we are almost double that number already. And Auckland will continue to become younger and browner as Anglo-Saxon population ages and shrinks. So the mega-trend here is not age. And the mega-trend here is not urbanization. The mega-trend is demography. It’s ethnicity. And we need to get our head around that because most of the benefits from super-diversity that we, as a country, are enjoying at the moment such as great renovation, productivity and investment increase New Zealand’s financial capital, whereas the most of the challenges from super-diversity adversely affect New Zealand’s social capital. However, if you don’t mitigate the challenges to your social capital, you are not gonna maximize sustainably the diversity dividing benefits for your financial capital.
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New Zealand is super diverse especially in Auckland, as 44$ are not born in New Zealand and there are 200 ethnicities, which doubled the official definition of super-diversity. As Auckland is becoming younger and browner, the mega trend is demography and ethnicity. The benefits of super-diversity increase New Zealand’s financial capital, whereas the challenges affect social capital. If we don’t mitigate, we cannot achieve sustainability in financial capital. (70 words)
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