Manying Ip, who holds a doctorate in history from the University of Auckland, says that New Zealanders always hoped their country would stay completely Anglo-Saxon and Protestant. Chinese were regarded as "godless, filthy foreigners with no moral values."
在奧克蘭大學拿到歷史博士學位的葉宋曼瑛表示，紐西蘭人一直希望他們的國家完全屬於盎格魯撒克遜人和基督徒，華人被視為「不信上帝，齷齪且沒有道德觀念的外國人」。