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Lecture 12 - Pacific Systems of Co-existence Flashcards

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What are Worldviews like?

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

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What is a Pacific world view?

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The Pacific way

Encompasses common Pacific values

An extended family defined

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What is a Pacific world view?

Target

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World view (bullseye)
Values
Behaviour
Culture

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Culture

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

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Languages

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Polynesian languages

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

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Belief systems

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kava drink of their Gods.

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

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Encompasses common Pacific values examples

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  • respect,
  • reciprocity,
  • communalism,
  • collective responsibility, gerontocracy,
  • humility,
  • love,
  • service
  • Spirituality
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An extended family defined

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Adults share breadwinning,

Children look after younger siblings.

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Sia Figiel’s poem:

Pacific world view.

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“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.
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There are 3 political status in the Pacific which are?

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  • Dependences
  • Compact of free association
  • Independence
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What is the colonial relationship between the Pacific and the West?

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  • Dependences
  • Compact of free association
  • Independence
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Dependences territory

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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)

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Compact of Free Association

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• International agreement establishes relationship of free association with US

  • Financial security help
  • Renewed
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Compact of Free Association With NZ

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

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Compact of Free Association With USA

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

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Independence

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  • Self-governing

* Centralized system of governance

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Independence From UK

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Kingdom of Tonga 1875 (144 years ), 
Kiribati 1979
(42 years), 
Fiji 1970 (49 years), 
Solomon Islands 1978 (41 years), 
Tuvalu 1978 (41 years)
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Independence From Germany, UK and AUS,

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Papua New Guinea 1975 (54 years)

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Independence From UK and France

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Vanuatu 1980 (29 years)

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Independence From Aus

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Nauru 1968 (51 years)

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Pacific countries of origin tend to reflect

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NZ’s historical relationships in the Pacific

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Pacific pop in NZ

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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)
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Pacific Identity

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

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

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Racially categorised

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Pacific people racialised in NZ via

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Colonial relationship

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Colonial expansion

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  • Overthrow and forced removal of indigenous sovereignty
  • European superior
  • Racist logic
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An historical example of entrenched racist logic: the Spanish Influenza

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

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

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Spanish Influenza encounters were characterised by:

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– 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

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

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Land of Milk & Honey

Land of Salt & Vinegar
Complications & Temptations

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Pacific experiences of migration to and settlement in NZ

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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

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