- Never have I ever been told
to go back to where I came from?
- Go back to where?
- Where we came from.
- To where? Nah.
(both laughing)
- Never fold, bro-
(both laughing)
685 in the house imma be me.
It is what it is.
Yeah. Let's go
- Well yeah, I did work at a sex shop so like I learnt,
I learnt that way.
(upbeat jazz music)
Hi, I'm Gloria from Gloria's world.
- I'm Jay, I'm 28 years old.
And I'm the baddest bitch in the Western Sydney.
(both hyping each other)
- What's up everyone,
it's your girl Nivs AKA your girl
- [Together] Yeah.
AKA shout out to the Luna kid.
- Hey guys, it's Pelz here.
AKA the golden wheelchair.
AKA. Shout out to Capisso.
AKA the pirate king.
- Do you want me to be formal cause I was going to go like,
hello?
- No, be yourself.
- Yo, what's up?
It's your girl Nella.
(both laughing)
- What's up world it's Biggs685.
You're now tuned into the Australian Samoan edition
of never have I ever.
- Never have I ever said I'm related to the rock.
- Everyone knows that we we're already related so.
- Everyone knows that he's my mom's brother.
I don't like much attention.
- You're fraud, bro.
No, I lied. I did.
- I mean, why would I, why would I say I'm related
to him when that's my husband.
- Obviously I'm a professional wrestler.
Yeah. I've seen the rock before and they're like,
where? And I'm like when he was doing the tour in Salmoa.
- He hasn't stepped foot in Salmoa.
- Y eah, like maybe once in a while,
like once every 10 years.
But then I do the, the, you know
eyebrow raising thing he does, but I can't do it.
- When you were growing up,
everybody said that was my cousin,
"he was my cousin"
"he's related to related to"
Don't we all wish we were related to
Dwayne, the rock Johnson.
Never have I ever been out partying all night
on a Saturday and then made it on time for church
on the Sunday.
- Oh
- Proudly.
- Sorry, mom right now.
- I think it's so liberating.
Like it's such a good challenge.
It is.
- You feel it the next day you feel so guilty.
And the looks that you get from your elders.
- Oh, it's kind of like, not a choice.
- You're not going what?
- You have to rush home, shower
get ready and put on your white clothes.
Cause mum really needs to go to church.
And then I'm like putting on my white clothes,
I'm ready.
How do you cover like that,
you're hung over.
I'm like you just bring sunnies,
He's just like, God is good.
God is good.
Never have I ever got a smack from my parents.
- Is that a joke or what?
I just got one before I left home.
Big fat.
Yes.
- Yeah.I have.
- Definitely have.
- I am the queen of getting my ass beat.
Back in my teens. Yeah.
- That's all I knew.
I think it's, it's hard to find someone
that at our age, right. That hasn't.
- Don't call docs, but we have.
- Yeah. That's that's standard.
- I don't know if it's just been a part of our culture.
You know what I mean?
They say the child doesn't get disciplined.
You see if the child is discipline
you see.
It's just the way it is, man.
- Never have I ever been followed
around the shops by security?
Standard.
- Yup. A hundred percent.
- What, you've never.
I thought you were gonna put, I have.
- What?! No way.
I love all security guards their islanders anyway. So.
Hey cous.
- Ah, okay. For you yeah.
- One time I was shopping and I pulled down
like a chocolate bar and there was a guy on the side
like peaking through the cages. The security guard, bro.
Shout out to Woolies.
- I mean, from outsider's perspective, like, come on
get some big people, we big, we brown, like
or were intimidating.
There is a lot of stigma with us, you know what I mean?
So, that doesn't help
- Being a female as well.
But then also of color, so goes hand in hand for me.
I went into Mayers and it was me
and my cousins and he was wearing a beanie.
And when we walked out, they were like,
"Are you stealing?"
So then they had to watch the footage back
and he was wearing the beanie when we walked in, yeah, so.
- Never have I ever had my Pacific Island named butchered.
- Always.
- What do you mean?
- Oh, I've got a white name.
That's how I get job interviews.
But yeah, I'm not lying.
- I actually don't have the Island.
My name is just Danielle.
- Yeah. Cause we didn't use my island name in school, so.
It was basically Elijah. But in Samoan its Alijah.
- Do you not have a Samoan name?
- No, not, no, my real, my real names or like English.
- Oh really?
- Yeah.
- I've got a middle name.
That's 16 letters.
So it's like ABCDEFG, no I'm kidding.
- Oh wow.
- My full name is and I get called Aniva
and I get called Niva
and it's like one letter so it's like,
come on guys.
Yeah. Put some respect on my name.
Never have I ever been told to go back
to where I came from?
Oh my gosh.
- Go back to where?
- Where we came from.
- To where? Nah.
(both laughing)
- Unfortunately.
- Yeah. Yeah.
But my one was from an old lady at a nursing home.
She was like, go back to where you came from.
It didn't hit the heart.
- Yeah.
- I've lost count how many times I've been told to go back
to where I came from, bro.
- I actually got a few months ago when I was
with my nieces and nephews.
I took them to the park
and there was this man who wasn't happy that we were there.
And he was like, go back to where he came from.
And I was like, yeah, go back to where you came from.
He did not own this land.
- Rugby games, school spectacular, not a high school
one, a primary school. Did receive a racist taunt
that did scar me.
- As a kid you don't know how to respond.
So you just cry.
Like, yeah.
I'm getting so deep now.
- Never have I ever been called a 'white' Samoan.
- Yes.
- Yeah. Yeah.
- I'd say I'm on the edge with this one.
- I always get told
I'm not Samoan enough.
It feels talking in plastic wise, kind of,
only because I didn't speak it fluently.
- Yeah. If we're going by that premise,
I'll definitely be the same.
- It's kind of like, if you don't know that
like how to speak it fully.
- Yeah. Yeah.
- Like the culture, like the cultural, cultural
cultural way of like Samoa tradition.
Samoan blank, you know, I don't know a lot of it.
- I don't particularly speak the language fluently.
So that kind of discredits my Samoan-ness
in saying that,
I'm so proud to be Samoan.
Even though the small amount of blood that I do have
I don't think it's
like any less being Samoan, I'm Samoan
and I'm proud.
Okay. Never have I ever had that
conversation with my parents
or elders and you know what we're talking about?
- What conversation?
- The birds and the bees.
- Can I just see?
What you have?
Oh, wow. How young are your parents?
- Yeah, we don't talk about it.
I mean the closest I've had
to that conversation was my parents saying
"you better not get pregnant".
- I have never, it is a very taboo topic.
- I would say maybe, almost.
One time my old man came in and he's like,
"I'm going to tell you a story at the birds and the bees."
And we were like, "No"!
We know, we know, we know.
I was only like 13 or something.
- If we're like, if we're like watching a TV
like with our parents
and they're just kissing, we're just like, yeah.
I'm not looking.
- Never have I ever had an awkward stare
down with another islander in public?
- Why
- I have.
- I don't know about awkward.
Like I've definitely locked eyes
with any other Pacific Islander in the crowd.
When Islanders drive past you and you're walking
they will stare until the cars like
all the way down the road, about to turn.
- Sometimes it's like, Oh, you look familiar.
Oh it's like, Ooh
like just that side of respect, like that.
- Usually it was like give a nod or raise of the eyebrow.
And they would just be like
looking at me and I'd just be like.
Well now it's awkward.
- It's a lot
- A lot of the ladies.
- Yeah. What are you wearing?
I'm like something that you could never afford.
- Those are, those are like hot topic questions.
- Very stereotypical
- Yeah Stereotypical, but it's getting answered.
I liked that. We're giving answers to these
stereotypical questions.
- For us this is really big.
Like from where we're from going up Mount Druitt.
- For sure. Shout out to Buzzfeed.
- Yeah, man. It's kind of cool.
So having different answers
different perspectives, different opinions, bro.
It's a beautiful thing.
Lets get it.