
‘It’s so easy to start a conversation with people here’
What is your ethnicity? Where did you come from? I am from Chile, South America. My hometown is Quilpué city,…

Diary of an international student during lockdown
Hello there! How do you feel now that the year 2020 has come to an end? Before I share my…

‘We found the peaceful life we came in search of’
Sasi Syed Niyamathullah What is your ethnicity? Where did you come from? I am originally from Jaffna in Sri Lanka….

Culinary Curiosity: Carrying the legacy of the Peranakans
The emergence of the Peranakans or Nonyas as a distinct community with their unique dialect, dress and food appears in…

Culinary Curiosity: The blended fragrance of Afghan
Afghanistan’s location straddling significant centres of cultures like Greece, Rome, Persia, India, China and Central Asia meant that its culinary…

This is how Kiwis welcome St Paddy’s!
The fact that we live in a multicultural society couldn’t have been more apparent than this afternoon. St Patrick’s Cathedral…

Re-vision of a new normal
Well known sayings, proverbs, or whakatauki (in te reo Māori) can give all the gift of wisdom and insightfulness. Learning…

‘Language is the window to the soul’
Shirin Brown, migrant, language teacher, and currently standing for Labour in Tāmaki, shares why Te Wiki o Te Māori is…
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