'Brainy, bold and bicultural': The new Māori-Pasifika generation that's changing the face of Aotearoa 6 Feb, 2021 08:07 PM 11 minutes to read 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.