Being Palangi: My Pacific Journey: A memoir by Anthony Haas, by Anthony Haas

Being Palangi: My Pacific Journey: A memoir by Anthony Haas, by Anthony Haas

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Being Palangi: My Pacific Journey tells of the ongoing development of New Zealand as a Pacific nation – through the personal and professional experience of New Zealand born Anthony Haas. In this book, Haas explores little known stories of his paternal grandfather who was the Democratic Party leader in the German Parliament in the 1920s, through to his father’s escape to New Zealand in the 1930s. The memoir is about multiculturalism. It includes stories about how peoples can work together to make the world a better place. This book is particularly useful for teachers, students and researchers of citizenship education, economics and political development, agri-business, tourism, social science, journalism, advocacy and the causes of World War Two.

Being Palangi: My Pacific Journey: A memoir by Anthony Haas, by Anthony Haas

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1759489 in eBooks
• Published on: 2015-09-24
• Released on: 2015-09-24
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Being Palangi: My Pacific Journey: A memoir by Anthony Haas, by Anthony Haas

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Fascinating picture of New Zealand and Pacific interactions over 40 years and more By John Faisandier I have just read the hard copy version of this book. It is a delightful read and very informative about the relationship between New Zealand and the Pacific Islands and Asia. Anthony Haas was there and involved from the 1960s and helped inform and formulate government policy through many decades. This is a quirky book in the best sense of the word. It covers personal history from Anthony's own German Jewish heritage and how that has influenced his involvement in promoting citizen education in New Zealand and the Pacific.The people and personalities Anthony has met along the way are a veritable Whos Who of New Zealand and Pacific political life over the past 40 years. As well as being interesting reading Anthony Haas has provided valuable references to resources that future researchers can consult and a variety of topics. I highly recommend this book!

0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. A South Pacific Discoverer's Memoir - review by Ian Johnstone of "Being Palangi" By Ian Johnstone The book tells of a life spent exploring and discovering what it means to "be palagi" - a word used by many Polynesians to describe (usually fair-skinned) immigrnats and their descendants whose sense of belonging to the South Pacific does not come from a centuries old blood-line, but is absorbed throught the soles of their feet and by observation and contact with with their (usually brown-skinned) Polynesian countrymen and women whose ancestors sailed from the mid-pacific 600 years ago to settle in the islands of New Zealand, Samoa, Tonga, Niue and smaller places.In his memoir, Hass, an experienced repoprter and social activist, has successfully and very usefully blended several strands, including -1. Personal memories of incidents, anecdotes, people, assembled over a lifetime as a member of New Zealand's minority Jewish immigrant-refugee community, and child of a family which made its living, like most New Zealanders, on the land.2. Family history, reflecting on the awful circumstances facing Tony's grandfather in Germany in the 1930s. Ludwig Haas, one of the few influential progressive liberal democrat politicians of the day, fought strongly against the rising forces of fascism, but in the end realised that Hitler could not be kept at bay. Dismayed, he told his son "Go away - as far as you can" - advice which eventually brought Tony Haas's parents to their farm in New Zealand's North Island.3. Tarveller's tales; the author's records and reports compiled over several multifarious visits to Japan and other Asian centres and across the islands of the South Pacific.4. A vade mecum/handbook/compendium packed with references,reports, contacts,recommendations, experiences, signposts and invaluable advice and information for anyone wishing to learn about the cross-woven strands of culture, development, governance and history which influence 21st. century change in this distinctive, multi-hued part of the world.At the core of "Being Palangi" is Tony Haas's great delight in the privilege of living in the South Pacific, his appreciation of the warmth, variety and wisdom of its peoples, and his understanding of the challenges those people face as they live and work together.It is very obvious that Tony Haas loves "being Palangi" and in this book he gives us all a way to share that love.

0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. An uplifting story of how to reach out to other cultures by understanding your own history By earwig Palangi is the Samoan and Tongan word mainly for people of British and other European descent. Tony Haas is a New Zealand writer, researcher and consultant with German and English ancestry who has devoted much of his adult life to his love affair with the people of the Pacific and to increasing New Zealanders’ understanding of Pasifika migrants to New Zealand and the ties they maintain with family and culture in their Pacific homelands. His book is testimony to the rapidly growing cultural diversity of New Zealand, since the 1800s home to a growing population of colonists from the British Isles as well as the original Maori who had arrived several centuries earlier, themselves from the islands of the Pacific. With successive waves of migration since the Second World War, New Zealand is rapidly evolving into a society of many different Asian, Pacific and European people as well as Maori and those of British descent. Haas’s book is founded on an ideal of New Zealand citizenship that embraces this flourishing multicultural identity, where there is no contradiction in being both a good New Zealand citizen and keeping alive Tongan, Samoan or Fijian family ties and traditions as well. He has particularly strong ties of affection with Tonga: he and his wife Tricia made an open adoption of a Tongan daughter and are now the grandparents of three proudly Tongan New Zealanders.But Being Palangi is also the intensely personal and absorbing account of how Haas reached back into his own history to understand his place here: son of a Jewish refugee from the tyranny of Nazi Germany. Haas’s father was a well-educated and cultured man who found his way to New Zealand and settled into the life of a sheep-farmer in New Zealand’s rural North Island. He in turn was the son of a Jewish German patriot and war veteran who was the last President of the German Democratic Party in the dying days of the Weimar Republic.Being Palangi has many optimistic lessons, not only for New Zealanders but for anybody living in a diverse society of migrants, of how to embrace one’s own history and culture and at the same time to understand and appreciate the contribution that other cultures make to any society. I found much in it to take heart for New Zealand's multicultural future.

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