Kristen Morrell

Kristen Morrell

Ethnic Background: English. Parents born in England.

Che Fu

Fu is the son of Miriama, and one New Zealand's founding reggae musicians, Unity Pacific (Tigilau Ness).^[2] Tigilau often accompanies him as a member of The Krates, he is a full-blooded Niuean who came from the village of Mutalau. Fu is half Māori, half Niuean. He and partner partner Angela McDonald have a son Loxmyn.

Ethnic Background: Maori and Niuean

Bic Runga

Bic Runga

Early life

Runga was born in Christchurch. Her mother, Sophia Tang, was a Chinese Malaysian lounge singer in Malaysia when she met Joseph Runga, a Māori soldier on leave from Vietnam. They moved to New Zealand to live.

Runga grew up in Hornby, Christchurch surrounded by a musically-inclined family, and started recording songs with her sisters, Boh and Pearl, when she was only four years old. Runga's older sister Boh is now a vocalist in the New Zealand rock group Stellar*, while Pearl is a session singer.

She learned how to play drums at the age of eleven, and guitar at about fourteen. Runga also learned to play the keyboard around this time. She attended Cashmere High School, joining high school bands and performing with

local jazz groups by her mid-teens.

Ethnic Background: Malaysian and Maori

dave dobbyn

Four Kiwis. DIFFERENT BACKGROUNDS.

Dave Dobbyn:

Dave Dobbyn, ONZM (born 3 January 1957) is a New Zealand award-winning musician, singer-songwriter and record producer. In his early career he was a member of rock group Th' Dudes and the main creative force in popsters DD Smash, but since then has released the majority of his recordings as a solo act.

ETHNIC BACKGROUND: Scottish & Irish New Zealand

World Ethnic Day

History

The United Nations selected 21 March to symbolise the need to end racism in response to the fatal shootings of 70 anti-apartheid demonstrators at a peaceful demonstration in Sharpeville, South Africa, on 21 March 1960.

Identifying a day specifically for this purpose reflected the UN's concern to heighten awareness of the harmful effects of racism and emphasise the importance of demonstrating a commitment to fostering respect, equality and diversity.

In New Zealand Race Relations Day is promoted by the Human Rights Commission in recognition of the United Nations day.

Play on this date. 

"We are all immigrants"

"We are all New Zealanders"

hmm, possible direction? (music video)

This is slightly a new direction. I talked to Mr. G today and after discussing my work so far I decided to push it in a slightly different direction.

Wellington City Council has a annual event on the 21st of march called race relations day. What i am proposing is that this day goes nation wide. And in unison with this I would get four prominent New Zealanders from diverse backgrounds to write and produce a song. Highlighting the idea 'that all of New Zealand' are immigrants of some degree. 

I would design and single cover. Music video. Tee shirts perhaps. 

*still in the early days here !  .. really need to keep going with it. 

progress

Bi Cultural. Multi Cultural. New Zealand

Bi - Cultural.

Why not multi - Cultural?

The 2006 Census counted 2,381,076 New Zealand Europeans, or 59.1% of those who gave their ethnicity. Most census reports do not separate New Zealand Europeans from the broader European ethnic category, which was the largest broad ethnic category in the 2006 Census. Europeans comprised 67.6 percent of respondents in 2006 compared with 80.1 percent in the 2001 census.^{[4][dead link]} The apparent drop in this figure was due to Statistics New Zealand's acceptance of 'New Zealander' as a distinct response to the ethnicity question and their placement of it within the "Other" ethnic category, along with an email campaign asking people to give it as their ethnicity in the 2006 Census.^[5] In previous censuses, these responses were counted belonging to the New Zealand European group,^[1]and Statistics New Zealand plans to return to this approach for the 2011 Census.^[6] Eleven percent of respondents identified as New Zealanders in the 2006 Census (or as something similar, e.g. "Kiwi"),^[7] well above the trend observed in previous censuses, and higher than the percentage seen in other surveys that year.^[8]

In April 2009, Statistics New Zealand announced a review of their official ethnicity standard, citing this debate as a reason,^[9] and a draft report was released for public comment. In response, the New Zealand Herald opined that the decision to leave the question unchanged in 2011 and rely on public information efforts was "rather too hopeful", and advocated a return to something like the 1986 approach. This asked people which of several identities "apply to you", instead of the more recent question "What ethnic group do you belong to?"^[10]

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^{This is quite interesting. I feel like there really something is in the debate about who is a kiwi. As opposed to a 'New Zealand European.'}

Start. Go.

Am now looking at how I want to get my message across. Is it too blunt?

Blunt and informative?

Perhaps, ironic. A tone which would grab attention perhaps.

LIKE THIS !

Research.

~mORE RESEARCH.

Not aesthetically pleasing necessarily. But quite informative imagery.

Especially the image of the sign from Durban.