New Zealand's People and Culture

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Berry Nice Cereal
Berry Nice Cereal

J.R.R Tolkien
J.R.R Tolkien

Kiwi Fruit
Kiwi Fruit

Spotted Kiwi Bird
Spotted Kiwi Bird

Population 4,076 thousand
Official Language English
Major Religion Christian
Literacy 99%
Life expectancy at birth 78.81 years
Birth rate 13.76 births/1000 population
Death Rate 7.53 death/1000 population
Total fertility rate 1.79 chidren born/woman

The food that New Zealand eat is cereal, honey, farmed salmon, New Zealand yams, and wild mushrooms. The New Zealand passion for dairy food also made ice cream important to New Zealanders. Some of New Zealand people claimed the New Zealand has no culture at all. Many people have no culture separate from their ancestor's country of origin. The kiwifruit is the edible fruit of a culture group of the woody vine Actinida delicious and hybrids between this and other species in the genus Actinida. Growers gradually adopted the name and in 1974 the kiwifruit became the official trade name. The movie called the lord of the rings is an epic high fantasy saga by the British author J.R.R tolkien, his most popular work and a sequel to his popular fantasy novel The Hobbit.