ABSTRACT
This chapter attempts to contribute to our understanding of in-betweenness in Samoan and Tongan communities in New Zealand by describing aspects of the Samoan and Tongan worldviews. Such an understanding may help inform counseling work in Auckland. Two groups make up the Pacific part of the clientele of Auckland University counseling services (McRobie, chapter 8 this volume). I will call the first group New Zealand-Borns. This is the younger group of New Zealand-born (or -raised) Pacific New Zealanders, who have learned Pacific values in the medium of English, and who partially understand their Pacific culture but perhaps have been more influence by mainstream Western culture. The second group I will call Island-Borns, and this comprises usually older, traditional island-born (or -raised) Pacific New Zealanders, who know Pacific values as encoded in their indigenous Pacific language, but who also partially know something of mainstream Western values, perhaps to a much lesser extent than their knowledge of their own Pacific culture.
