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“I am called a Pacific Islander when I arrive at Auckland Airport. Elsewhere I am Samoan.” Taufa said lumping everyone together robbed people of their true identity. “We did not name ourselves Pacific Islanders, we did not name ourselves Polynesian. These are terms that were constructed by palagi within a colonial context.” Stuff Dr Seini Taufa says the term ‘Pacific Islanders’ was one constructed within a colonial context. She said preconceived ideas around being called a Pacific Islander or Polynesian influenced the way Pacific people self-identified. “While the umbrella term Pacific is useful when making global comparisons, it s futile when applied to actual people and groups of people who consider themselves not Pacific or Polynesian, but Samoan, Tongans, Fijians, Cook Islanders and so on.”

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