Lecture 12 - Pacific Systems of Co-existence

Question 1

What are Worldviews like?

Answer 1

cerebellums everyone has one and humans cannot live without them, but not everyone knows that they have one.

Question 2

What is a Pacific world view?

Answer 2

The Pacific way

Encompasses common Pacific values

An extended family defined

Question 3

What is a Pacific world view?

Target

Answer 3

World view (bullseye)
Values
Behaviour
Culture

Question 4

Culture

Answer 4

songs, dances, paintings, tattoos (vehicles for transmission of histories)

Question 5

Languages

Answer 5

Polynesian languages

Material culture, e.g.weaving, carving, painting

Question 6

Belief systems

Answer 6

kava drink of their Gods.

• Kava is served in all important ceremonies in these societies.

Question 7

Encompasses common Pacific values examples

Answer 7

• respect,
• reciprocity,
• communalism,
• collective responsibility, gerontocracy,
• humility,
• love,
• service
• Spirituality

Question 8

An extended family defined

Answer 8

Adults share breadwinning,

Children look after younger siblings.

Question 9

Sia Figiel’s poem:

Pacific world view.

Answer 9

“I” does not exist.
I am not.
My self belongs not to me because “I” does not exist. “I” is always “we”.
is part of the ‘aiga.
a part of the Au a teine.
a part of the Aufaipese.
a part of the Autalavou.
a part of the Aoga a le faifeau.
a part of the Church.
a part of the nu’u.
a part of Samoa.

Question 10

There are 3 political status in the Pacific which are?

Answer 10

• Dependences
• Compact of free association
• Independence

Question 11

What is the colonial relationship between the Pacific and the West?

Answer 11

• Dependences
• Compact of free association
• Independence

Question 12

Dependences territory

Answer 12

Not possess full political independence or sovereignty, yet remains politically outside the controlling state’s integral area
• Tokelau (NZ)
• New Caledonia, French Polynesia, Wallis and Futuna (France)
• Guam, Northern Marianas , American Samoa (USA)

Question 13

Compact of Free Association

Answer 13

• International agreement establishes relationship of free association with US

• Financial security help
• Renewed

Question 14

Compact of Free Association With NZ

Answer 14

Cook Islands 1964 (55 years), Niue 1974 (53 years)

Question 15

Compact of Free Association With USA

Answer 15

Federated States of Micronesia (FSM), Palau, Marshall Islands

Question 16

Independence

Answer 16

• Self-governing

* Centralized system of governance

Question 17

Independence From UK

Answer 17

Kingdom of Tonga 1875 (144 years ), 
Kiribati 1979
(42 years), 
Fiji 1970 (49 years), 
Solomon Islands 1978 (41 years), 
Tuvalu 1978 (41 years)

Question 18

Independence From Germany, UK and AUS,

Answer 18

Papua New Guinea 1975 (54 years)

Question 19

Independence From UK and France

Answer 19

Vanuatu 1980 (29 years)

Question 20

Independence From Aus

Answer 20

Nauru 1968 (51 years)

Question 21

Pacific countries of origin tend to reflect

Answer 21

NZ’s historical relationships in the Pacific

Question 22

Pacific pop in NZ

Answer 22

7.4 % of NZ (295,941 people)

• Mainly samoan (144,138)
• Tongan(60,336)
• Cook Islander (61, 839)
• Niuean (23, 883)
• Fijian (14,445)
• Tokelauan (7176)
• Tuvalu (3, 537)

Question 23

Pacific Identity

Answer 23

1. Self-identification (Age, Pacific born vs NZ born)
2. Self-alignment
3. Mixture of factors (Education, Location)

Question 24

Aspects of Pacific identity and World vire

Answer 24

Ethnicity
Age
Location
Religiosity
Generation
Family
Pacific born vs NZ born
Education

Question 25

Ethnicity

Answer 25

Racially categorised

Question 26

Pacific people racialised in NZ via

Answer 26

Colonial relationship

Question 27

Colonial expansion

Answer 27

* Overthrow and forced removal of indigenous sovereignty * European superior * Racist logic

Question 28

An historical example of entrenched racist logic: the Spanish Influenza

Answer 28

1914 - 1919 Robert Logan (NZ administrator) allowed steamship carry infected passengers to land in Samoa without quarantine. 7542 samoans dead (20% pop)

Question 29

``` Robert Logan (NZ administrator) Described grieving Samoan population, as being... ```

Answer 29

‘like children, they will get over it if they are handled with care...They will later remember all that has been done for them in the previous four years unless they are spoiled with consideration’ (Meleisea 1987: 122).

Question 30

Spanish Influenza encounters were characterised by:

Answer 30

``` – unequal power dynamics – loss of governance – diminished autonomy of indigenous pacific peoples over law and decision making – Extraction of resources and land – Dispossession and possession ``` contemporary ethnic inequalities

Question 31

Positioning & Imagining of Pacific peoples as ethnic group in NZ: Romanticised view: Reality:

Answer 31

Land of Milk & Honey | Land of Salt & Vinegar Complications & Temptations

Question 32

Pacific experiences of migration to and settlement in NZ

Answer 32

Racializing of workers from pacific. - 1973-74 Oil Crisis changed nature of the global economy - Economic downturn, loss of jobs, competition for scare resources - Secondary industries were hit hardest, where majority of Pacific workers were concentrated, were hit the hardest