“ Racism is an every day occurrence whether at school or in public . We who are not born white should know that we will never be excepted as equal within white society . We would be living a delusion if we think otherwise .Yes we could be great achievers academically and socially but that will not get one the respect one is entitled to from a white perspective . As for children of Pacific island countries born overseas not being able to speak the mother tongue that's the fault of the parents of those children for not speaking to them in their native language ,As can be seen the only places where Islanders and their culture are appreciated are the Marae kohaga reo , Samoan and Tongan child care centre ,and why is that ? Because we are Polynesian and we have a common cultural background . We as a race will be tolerated because it's the accepted standards of respectable or moral behaviour to do so ,Many a times we belittle our cultural heritage by not speaking the mother tongue to our children because we denigrate the native language because of some silly notion that the children born overseas in Palangi land should speak Palangi language and grow up as Palangi . No one can teach our children better than us the Parents that brought them into the world ; if they can't speak the native language than how could they understand their culture ?????? ”