Dunedin is a university city. Unlike Auckland, where I trained, it is safe. Very safe. People can and do party and walk home, down the middle of the street. The most naughty thing that traditionally happens is that couches are burned, and Hyde St closes for a drunken party.

But this relies on everyone sticking to the unwritten rules that make up a culture. It takes only a little diversity for this to stop, as has happened in the student quarter.

Please note that the ethnic group is not mentioned in the article. Given the recent influx of refugees, I have unfounded suspicions.

Some students flatting in Dunedin’s Hyde St say they are living in fear after being threatened by a group of young people who recently moved to the street.

A third-year University of Otago student and Hyde St resident, who did not want to be named, said he was “scared” after a resident of another Hyde St flat said he would shoot him and other residents because he tried to stop a fight.

“He said ‘I’m going to actually get my gun out of the car and shoot you all’.”

The threat happened about a month ago, on the same night another student resident was “bottled in the throat”, he said.

The police had been told about the incident but he believed it was not taken seriously because he was a student.

Burglaries and general aggressive behaviour had been regular events on the normally “happy” street since two groups of young people (all thought to be under 18), who were not students, moved into flats in April, he said.

“Hyde St has a bad reputation but we are all a big community here. Everyone felt safe. There were no fights. We hate fights. Then they moved in and the abuse started.”

Another resident who did not want to be named said she had seen gang members entering the flats.

The woman’s flat had been burgled several times since the non-student residents moved in, despite locks being changed and her flatmates being “really vigilant”.

One of her flatmates had been sleeping metres away from a room which was ransacked.

“We are so scared that we are sitting here during the day with the door locked. We have the curtains always closed.”

“I definitely think it is going to take someone getting really hurt for the police to have the authority to really do something.”

The residents planned to move out of their flat if the trouble did not stop.

All residents spoken to by the Otago Daily Times said they had spoken to the police and the University of Otago about their concerns.

A resident said she knew the University of Otago could not do much because the people causing the trouble were not students.

However, she was frustrated the police were not doing more.

“The police say ‘you have convicted criminals living near you, be vigilant’. We feel like saying why don’t you do something about it?”

A resident of one of the flats identified by the concerned students said his flat was “quiet”.

“We just stay in our house.”He was not aware of any fights on the street.

Acting Otago Coastal Area commander Inspector Kelvin Lloyd said police were aware “some non-student tenants” had moved into the area, causing “issues” for police and other residents.

Police were working with students and following lines of inquiry, and he encouraged concerned students to approach the police for help, rather than take matters into their own hands.

A University of Otago spokeswoman said the university was aware of the situation.

If you are around people of your nation and culture you are comfortable. If you are in another country and culture, you respect their ways on doing what is morally neutral. I have been in meetings overseas and gone back into my room and dressed down (or up) so I fit the street: I eat the local foods, and have Vegemite withdrawal.

But the new neighbours in Hyde Street don’t want to integrate with the locals. They want to rule them.

If is far, far worse in post Obama America. Talking to my Glaswegian brother-in-law on the EU last night — for what it is worth he and I disagreed on Brexit — we came to one point of agreement. Germany will explode, given the dynamics that a commentator at VD noted are happening there.

It would be one thing to have a Japanese neighbor who spoke perfectly unaccented fluent English with a meticulously cared for yard, who would cooperate and share, and generally try to be “American”, and these rapefugees who speak Urdu, dress strangely, are ugly, dirty, wasteful, and destructive, obnoxious, and have no intention of integrating.

It is one thing to be whatever the cultural equivalent of “Trans” is (Ameriboo?) who while non-white does everything to appear like a white stuck in a non-white body, and another thing entirely to refuse to assimilate.

The “melting pot” is near the “boiling point”.

Diversity is bad. In multiethnic areas — which is what Auckland has become — people separate into neighbourhoods: there are chinese/european areas with higher property values, Indian neighbourhoods, Korean, Afrikaner and Somalian ones. People like to live next to people like them.

But this leads to conflict. The elite forget that if they are not like those who they rule over, there is a risk that a certain Austrian Marie had. As Queen of France, she died.