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“You go back to the 1960s and 70s when New Zealanders invited the Pacific workforce to fill the booming manufacturing industry, the freezing works and the forestry and you trace where the people were in South Auckland, in the Waikato regions in Tokoroa, Rotorua and up north, and you will find people who descend from relationships during that workplace,” he says.
“Now that our communities have migrated to the regions, they are settled, they’ve got jobs and are really putting their roots in the ground. I’m seeing that more and more.
“And I’m trying to describe it as the Generation Six Bs – people who are brown, obviously, but they’re brainy, they’re beautiful and bicultural. They’re bilingual, and they’re bold.”
Brainy, bold and bicultural : The new Māori-Pasifika generation that s changing the face of Aotearoa
6 Feb, 2021 08:07 PM
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Hine Funaki: I can t turn off the fact that I walk in these multiple different worlds. Photo / Supplied
Hine Funaki: I can t turn off the fact that I walk in these multiple different worlds. Photo / Supplied
RNZ
There s a brown, bi-cultural generation changing the face of New Zealand.
That s according to the Minister for Pacific Peoples, Aupito William Sio, who previously told RNZ Pacific that as many as two thirds of New Zealand born-Pasifika now had Māori whakapapa as well.