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Pasifika
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English
Etymology
From en Pacific, changed to use Samoan orthography.http://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=10455473 Pasifika - Identity or illusion? NZ Herald 3 August 2007 https://web.archive.org/web/20150727035621/http://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=10455473 27 July 2015
Pronunciation
en /pəˈsɪfɪkə/
Noun
s *
en NZ A Pacific Islander.
2018, The Guardian, "Post-colonial talk back: seeing London in the South Seas", Selina Tusitala Marsh, 24 February 2018 (Selina Tusitala Marsh is a poet-scholar and New Zealand Poet Laureate for 2017–2019)
My political stance as a Pasifika poet has always been one of inclusion – I'm a bridge not a wall.
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