MULTI-NESIANS: Milly Grant-Koria

'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 3:  MILLY GRANT-KORIA  

Maori / Tongan / Samoan / Hawaiian / Cambodian / Filipino / Thai / Chinese / European / Scandinavian  

"I became trapped in this idea that I needed to be something to be valid.  I struggled going through each cultural group that I connected to and finding what value was in cultural identity.

But for now, I don't identify with any of them ... I identify with all" - Milly Grant-Koria