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Negative Influence On My Family

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Introduction
Family is a very broad aspect, I was bought up by my grandparents, Kalala and Akileo I have grown up to be very family orientated, and everything affects family. Everything I say and do has an influence on my kaiga, without their love, support and their hard work I would not be who I am today. Toku kaiga means not only parents and siblings but also my extended family, ancestors who are not here in person. I gained different perspectives from some family members and how their view of Kaiga is affected by different aspects.
Kaiga
My aunty (46) became very emotional and yearned to go back to Tokelau when discussing kaiga. For her growing up in Tokelau, her parents always took in anyone that was in need of help, despite having nothing themselves, family was more …show more content…

I was the only child at the time so going to school having to speak English meant that I could read my grandparents mail, fill out forms and communicate with other on behalf of my grandparents. As my grandparents passed on I had to live with my dad and he only spoke English to me, as time went on I slowly started losing my Tokelau language. It does not affect my immediate family so much that we are English orientated, but the loss of language at family functions has an impact on our relationships with our extended family. It becomes a challenge and personally I feel fakama (shy or embarrassed) that I cannot hold a conversation with them. Not only is the language being lost in the home but also because of the different generations being born in New Zealand Tokelau language is dying in New Zealand. In 2001 the percentage of New Zealand Tokelau born people who could fluently speak Tokelauan was 44 percent (C.Walrond,

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