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English
Etymology
From English Pacific, changed to use Samoan orthography.[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
Pasifika (plural Pasifikas or Pasifika)
- (New Zealand) 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.
References
- ^ “Pasifika - Identity or illusion?”, in NZ Herald, 2007 August 3