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Let me preface this by saying I have met lots of great Americans. But if we are going by generalisations.
Far to obsessed with status and self. But after a while most Americans either relax about life or move on.
accurate tbh, either obsessed with status or gives absolutely 0 shits
Obviously there are some Kiwis like that but as a rule we are far more relaxed and as a result Americans that don't relax can feel isolated. But most do.
Just follow the don't be a dick rule and you will be fine.
Just an additional note. The more jingoistic, racist, backwards Americans do not tend to move overseas. So don't worry about that been a perception of Americans who move here. Just in case that's what you were worried about.
Secound addition: I should also mention that we are not a very religious country anymore the last census had around 60% listing themselves as not religious or atheist and the rest was split over all the other global religions. Obviously we still have religious cultures here especially amougnst the older generations. But if you are looking for a specific community like that I have no idea if you will find it and most people outside of that will be politely disinterested.
We'd have more if they put Jedi back on the list!
Idk. I was honestly pretty shocked at the amount of Jesus I encountered in Aotearoa. I'd heard this fact before, and I'm from a statistically very Catholic part of the US so I was really surprised at how often I encountered Christianity crammed into places it seemed like it shouldn't have been as well as places Christianity has every right to be in NZ.
Are you talking about where it does not matter like the national anthem, token references hang over from tradition or people giving more than a pretence for tradition? We still have areas where it is very strong in some communities, but outside the boomers it's definately not mainstream (Christianity is barely bigger than islam or other religions in new Zealand in self identified head count with none beleavers making up the majority).