United Future

Openness is the most important singular criteria for the propagation and dynamic growth of a culture. The English language became "lingua franca"(There is an irony), simply because it happily accepted and took liberally from, all who visited its shores - Saxons, Romans, Vikings and so on.
We witness too often the failure of organisations and teams who close themselves off from those around them. It is a feature often seen in failing sports teams who become more and more insular and repressive.
A very exciting young American (of Swedish and Afro-american extraction) called Frans Johansson has a book called the Medici Effect. It's principle is that the Medici family built an enduring culture by inviting artists from all over the world to Florence to become part of the artistic movement there. The diversity of influence created a remarkably dynamic and exciting environment in which creativity thrived. He applies this theory to organisations today and discovered via a Hedge Fund that he created that truly diverse organisations thrive at a rate far higher than more homogenous ones.
It doesn't take a lot more than a view of NZ's most successful school leavers to understand that we have been blessed with the influx of large numbers of highly motivated and smart people. Young Asians dominate our scool leavers award ceremonies.
The jingoistic right would wish to curtail this influence.
Royalists would hold that we somehow still retain links to an old and tired identity which truly does nothing to reflect what we have become.
A change in our statehood would be nothing other than a reflection of today's reality.
Critically though, this change is not an end in itself - rather it should become a springboard for a new and dynamic sense of our nation as a creative force made up of many diverse people.