So, what Tribe are you?

[Hitcher]

According to a new book, 8 Tribes: The hidden classes of New Zealand (www.8tribes.co.nz), individual New Zealanders are defined by one of eight tribes:

The North Shore tribe
The Grey Lynn tribe
The Balclutha tribe
The Remuera tribe
The Otara tribe
The Raglan tribe
The Cuba Street tribe
The Papatoetoe tribe

You can learn more about which of these may define you by completing the on-line questionnaire at the above link.

Don't guess or try to read too much into the names that are used to describe the Tribes.

[Grahameeboy]

I am 'Me'...................

[Indiana_Jones]

I am 'Me'...................

don't lie, your a shore boy lol

-Indy

[yungatart]

I have no idea - and I can't find out either, because the link thingy won't work!!!

[Squeak the Rat]

From Papatoetoe, but Raglan tribe. Fit's to a T.

[Hitcher]

Hitcher - there's a ) in the link that stops it working....

Thanks. Should be sorted now.

[Grahameeboy]

don't lie, your a shore boy lol

-Indy

No, after 2 years of "so you are a Pom are you" I started replying "No.....I am Me"................I live on the Shore doesn't mean I think of myself as a North Shore boy..........ppffffttt

[Hitcher]

No, after 2 years of "so you are a Pom are you" I started replying "No.....I am Me"................I live on the Shore doesn't mean I think of myself as a North Shore boy..........ppffffttt

Typical Pom.

[TerminalAddict]

I haven't completed the quiz yet .. but I'm gonna guess I'm the raglan tribe (since I live near the divi )

[riffer]

Yeah, I read it in the Saturday DomPost.

I couldn't find the test, so I guess I'm a mix of Papatoetoe/Cuba Street with North Shore tendencies.

Fuck compartmentalisation.

[riffer]

Well, well, well.

Found the link, did the test, and this is what it reckons.

You can tell I work in an ad agency...

[pervert]

Worst thread ever.

[WickedOne]

Interesting seeing that I am a saffa who's been living on the shore for the last 7 odd years.

Your dominant tribe is Balclutha

You're from the commonsense tribe who know that pride comes before a fall and the people you can count on are the people that really count.

The Balclutha Tribe - Staunch

The Tribal Mind of the Kiwi heartland, the provincial conservatives, who see themselves as a source of stability and commonsense, bearers of on-going connection with the land solid, reliable and down to earth, but also deceptively smart.

[Hillbilly]

What a lot of crap!! Seven of those "tribes" are in the North Island!! Author wouldn't belong to the "Remuera tribe" would they???

[Hitcher]

I agree with you Riffer. The Tribes are very demographic, rather than values-based, meaning that people will probably change from one Tribe to another over their lifetime. I also thought that the online questionnaire was leading in both the choice of questions and the way they were expressed.

A good conversation starter for New Zealanders, none the less.