MULTI-NESIANS: Joe Daymond

'MULTI-NESIANS’’ is a series of conversations around race, identity and mixed cultural upbringings in Aotearoa.

There are strong intersects of many Pasifika, Asian, Maori, Melanesian and Palagi cultures across these stories, emphasising our Oceanic connectedness and shared DNA, as well as our differences in the new cosmopolitan Moana.

8 Kiwi - Pacific 3rd generation millennials share the ways in which they express their generations identities and issues.

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EPISODE 5: JOE DAYMOND

Fijian / Maori

"My cousin, she never liked the term 'half-caste' because she felt like it diluted what each part of her culture meant to her. I'd literally never thought about it until then and I was like, I actually feel the same cos I say I'm half Maori/half Fijian but I actually feel full both ..." - Joe Daymond