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In the film Whale Rider the director Niki Caro shows how the cultural traditions can unite its people and create a sense of unity between the Maori people. The Maori people are a native culture that have been home to New Zealand for over three thousand years. They have a story that has been passed down generation after generation which is the story of Paikea. Paikea was a ancestor that left his homeland Hawaiki on the back of a whale. The filmmaker uses camera, sound and lighting techniques to…

wanted to create its reputation among all nations of the world. However, it was not until 1915 that Australian and New Zealand soldiers joined the war and ‘set out to capture the Gallipoli peninsula’ . The main goal of this campaign was to capture Constantinople, the capital of the Ottoman Empire and ‘an ally of Germany’ . The date marked April 25th when ‘the Australian and New Zealand’ soldiers ‘landed on Gallipoli’ . They were immediately met with resistance and retaliation by ‘the Ottoman…

Aboriginal Black Power Movement and a critical figure in establishing the Aboriginal Embassy protest of 1972 (Dr Edwina Howell and Professor Gary Foley, 2017). All these examples provided a worldwide voice for Aboriginal Australians, and created a new knowledge and understanding of the people and all they have lost, his work has been so positive and helpful to so many indigenous australians who have lost their public voice. No negative downfall has sprung from his work and that shows his…

diabetes. Type 2 diabetes is a serious and huge issue in New Zealand. Type 2 diabetes is an issue because of the increase in numbers of people who are diagnosed with the disease. Over 240,000 have and 100,000 do not yet know they have diabetes as they haven’t been diagnosed yet. Maori and Pacific islanders are the highest ethnic groups to be at risk of obtaining type 2 diabetes, they are three times more liking to get the disease. New Zealand has one of the top rates of obesity, coming…

Pacific Fusion group that performs traditional and original songs in their native style. The founder of the group Opetaia Foa'I is a native of New Zealand and is very proud of his Pacific roots, which is very clear in their music. Te Vaka has performed at the Rugby World Cup and the 2008 Beijing Olympics. They also won “Best Pacific Music Album” from the New Zealand Music Awards for their albums Tutuki and Olatia, which translate to “achieved” and “saved” respectively. The title track from their…

prove herself but Koro cannot adapt and her ambition constantly threatens their relationship. Throughout the film Pai proves her ability to lead; she demonstrates the necessity to both hold on to the important values within a society while adapting to new challenges and…

Barry Barclay (2000, p.1) coined the term ‘Fourth Cinema’, a classification in which he encompasses all means of Indigenous Cinema, made by Indigenous people, for Indigenous people. Barclay also puts emphasis on Fourth Cinema ‘Indigenous’ being spelt with a capital “I”, a category he created for his own personal satisfaction but has since caught on globally. This essay will discuss the concept of Fourth Cinema as outlined by Barry Barclay in general, as well as, in relation to Taika Waititi’s…

The Asian Pacific culture in America covers a large demographic and includes many different ethnic groups. The ethnic groups that are included with the Asian Pacific culture include Bangladeshi, Pakistani, Cambodian, Chinese, Filipino, Hmong, Indian, Japanese, Korean, Laotian, Native Hawaiians, Pacific Islanders, Taiwanese, and Vietnamese (Asian Nation, n.d.). As of 2008 the Asian Pacific culture in America made up about 5% of the population, but is still one of the fastest growing ethnic…

growing up in the modern society; well educated, successful, and affluent. Yet, how could a boy of this nature have conflict? Hence the title “Polynesian Old Man”, the conflict occurs between he and his father. No matter how many times he came home a new and improved man, his father had a look of despair or uncertainty in his eyes. It was the way his son was growing up, in the western world, did his father not like. What more of a conflict than a conflict between a father and…

I was born in Christchurch, New Zealand, on 13 April 1967. My father was a Christchurch businessman, and my mother was from a farm roughly 30 miles from the city. Both sides of the family had immigrated to New Zealand from the UK and Ireland in the mid 1800s. During my early childhood I spent a great deal of time on the farm, and only wanted to grow up to be a farmer. My family moved away from Christchurch in 1970 to the deep south of New Zealand’s South Island. Invercargill is a small city…