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• The descendants of these workers, as well as subsequent immigrants from India, now make up about half of the population of Fiji, indigenous Fijians make up about 46%, and  persons f European descent (especially from New Zealand and Australia), other Pacific Islanders and people of other cultures make up the rest. This population mix raises profound and complex problems, especially between Indigenous Fijians and those of Indian ancestry. Through their system of communal landholding (about 90% of all land in Fiji), which does not allow property to be sold, Fijians own almost all of their land (80%). ... The commercial lifeline of Fiji is in the hands of outside interests, especially from New Zealand, or Fijians of Indian ancestry, who are especially dominant in smaller commercial enterprises. Indigenous Fijians blame their exclusion from the contemporary wealth of their nation on Fijians of Indian ancestry. ...
• "Everything we Fijians believe in, they destroy. ...
• From Fijians of Indian ancestry there are also complaints. ... Indigenous Fijians have applied constant pressure to solidify their political control of the nation as they drop in number. ...
• Nearly all Fijians are practicing Christians, and missionaries have been very successful  since their arrival in the 1830's. ...
• Katz reveals not only those aspects of life essential for the Fijians as they struggle to hold onto their identity, but also what is of importance to all of us who seek to retain our humanity Order now!.

• vu/en/news/InternationalMediaCoverage/041210-fijians-savour-taste-of-future. shtml Fijians savour taste of future.
• HAM and coconut is nowhere on the menu but Fijians have gone ga-ga nonetheless for the Pacific nation's first pizza chain.
• "All the Fijians walk in and order the deep pans and all the Indians walk in and order the thin pizzas," Eagle Boys founder Tom Potter said.
• "The Fijians all go for the meat pizzas and the Indians want chicken. ...

• Fragmented Identities Among Postcolonial Fijians .
• Fragmented Identities Among Postcolonial Fijians: Extending the Hand of Kinship and Respecting the Right to Choose Lucy de Bruce is from the Kailoma community of Fiji. Kailomas are the descendants of indigenous Fijians and European settlers who became the first 'blended people' of the Fiji Islands during the early nineteenth century. ... Lucy believes that a factor much overlooked in regards to Fiji's recent civilian coup, led by George Speight, was the Fijian coup leader's own racial identity and his claim to represent 'Indigenous Fijians'. While she does not dispute Speight's claim to this identity, she offers a closer look at Fijians of similar backgrounds to see how they fit into Fiji's race-conscious society. ...
• We, the Vasu/Kailoma, as some of you will know, are the descendants of indigenous Fijians and other races. ...
• This submission therefore, is made on behalf of those mixed-race individuals and their families who are descendants of Indigenous Fijians and who share Fijian aspirations and a preference for the Fijian identity. ...
• Fijians, on the other hand, were more sympathetic towards their half-siblings. ...
• It stands to reason, therefore, that there is no such thing as a 'pure Fijian race' since many Fijians, particularly those of high rank, have Kailoma/European blood flowing in their veins (!). ...
• In light of these circumstances, it cannot be underestimated how dangerous the implications are for Fijians to continue in the vein of a divided people. The turbulent times we have witnessed in this last coup should urgently signal that Fijians need to do some serious soul searching in relation to the Fijian identity and to issues of group belonging among its forgotten and alienated members. We need to look closer at the legal definition of what is meant by 'a Fijian' - where the lines have increasingly blurred between landless Fijiians, urban Fijians and Kailoma Fijians. ... This might call for a twin system that distinguishes between the lifestyles of 'traditional' and 'non-traditional' Fijians. ...

• Terence Wesley-Smith, an associate professor for Pacific Islands Studies at the University of Hawaii, said there aren't many ethnic Fijians who would receive the majority support of voters. He said Deputy Prime Minister Tupeni Baba and former Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka may be the only two Fijians that are noteworthy enough to become Fiji's next leader. ...
• But the question remains: can Fijians live with an Indo-Fijian prime minister? .
• Vilsoni Hereniko, a native of the Fiji Island of Rotuma, said Fijians must address the problem of leadership in the country. ...
• Although Hereniko said he is disappointed at Speight's actions of attempting to overthrow Chaudhry's government, he admits many Fijians find it difficult to deal with an ethnic Indian prime minister. ...
• I think if you have an Indian prime minister, things may look OK to the outside world for awhile, but sooner or later there would be another uprising by the indigenous Fijians,'' he added. ...
• A former state department official, who spoke to Pacific Islands Report under conditions of anonymity, said racial tension between indigenous Fijians and Indians in the country has always been an issue. ...

• 10,000 FIJIANS FACE DEPORTATION FROM U. ...
• He said Fiji believed that the US was in a dilemma because even though Fijians were staying illegally, they were providing a useful service to the community.
• The Government is still talking to Australia on establishing working schemes for Fijians to apply for.
• Mr Tavola said this would allow Fijians to go to Australia and work legally under such a scheme.
• He said the only choice New Zealand gave was for Fijians to apply through the Pacific Access Scheme which allows selected Pacific Islanders to live and work in NZ.

• Military commander claims support of Fijians.
• SUVA: Fiji's interim Head of State and army chief, Commodore Frank Bainimarama, says he has the support of most indigenous Fijians and has brushed aside defiant statements by the rebel leader.
• "It is difficult to perceive a phenomenon of Fijian hopes in a coup that seeks to unseat from the highest office in the land one of the highest chiefs, with an unequalled record of service to the nation, and to defy the Great Council of Chiefs, Fijians' highest leadership institution. ...

• Indigenous Fijians made up 51%, Indo-Fijians 44%, and other Pacific islanders, Chinese, and Europeans the other 5%. Thanks to a high Fijian birth rate, the overall population has been rising slightly despite the country's losing thousands of Indo-Fijians since the 1987 military coups.
• "Fijians generally perceive Indians as mean and stingy, crafty and demanding to the extent of being considered greedy, inconsiderate and grasping, uncooperative, egotistic, and calculating," wrote Professor Asesela Ravuvu of the University of the South Pacific. On the other hand, he said, Indians see Fijians as jungalis, still living on the land (which they will not sell), poor, backward, naive, and foolish.
• Given that these attitudes are not likely to change anytime soon, it is remarkable that Fijians and Indo-Fijians actually manage to coexist. ...
• From a visitor's standpoint, the famously friendly Fijians give the country its laid-back South Seas charm while at the same time providing relatively good service at the hotels. For their part, the Indo-Fijians make this an easy country to visit by providing excellent maintenance of facilities and efficient and inexpensive services, such as transportation.
• The Fijians -- Today's indigenous are descended from a Melanesian people who came from the west and began settling here around 500 B. ... Over time they replaced the Polynesians, whose ancestors had arrived some 1,000 years beforehand, but not before adopting much of Polynesian culture and intermarrying enough to give many Fijians lighter skin than that of most other Melanesians, especially in the islands of eastern Fiji near the Polynesian Kingdom of Tonga. ...
• Fijians have managed to retain much of their old lifestyle and customs. Most Fijians still live in small villages along the coast and riverbanks or in the hills, and you will see many traditional thatch bures, or houses, scattered in the countryside away from the main roads. ... More than 80% of the land in Fiji is owned by Fijians.
• A majority of Fijians are Methodists today, their forebears having been converted by puritanical Wesleyan missionaries who came to the islands in the 19th century. ...
• The Indo-Fijians -- The Leonidas, a labor transport ship, arrived at Levuka from Calcutta on May 14, 1879, and landed 463 indentured servants destined to work the sugar cane fields. ...
• Many leased small plots of land from the Fijians and began planting sugarcane or raising cattle on their own. ... Other Indo-Fijians went into business in the growing cities and towns and, joined in the early 1900s by an influx of business-oriented Indians, thereby founded Fiji's modern merchant and professional classes.

• Fijians Paramountcy- Let's think rationally.
• 1990 - A new Constitution providing Paramouncy to the Indigenous Fijians was promulgated. This Constitution allowed pro Indigenous Fijians policy in every field- e. ... We enjoy annual budget of about two million dollars on Indigenous Fijians scholarships through Fijians Affairs Board.
• There have been various programs encouraging Fijians in Business. There are incentives for share holding with foreign and Fijians owned businesses with easy access to credit as well as 'Equity Window schemes' from the Fiji Development Bank.
• "Indigenous Fijians have easier access to loan funds for business establishment, purchase or development. Fiji Development Bank administers several such schemes including a number under the general heading of commercial loans to Fijians," Laisenia Qarase, 1993.
• Qarase also informed a meeting in Nadi about the success of the Fijians Holding Limited established to increase  Fijians participation in business and the economy. The FHL concept has seen indigenous Fijians obtain substantial equity share holding in and in several cases majority or complete ownership of major business enterprises. ...
• Fijians have another great Asset- Land, particularly Native Land suitable for development in our largest foreign exchange earner, Tourism sector. ...
• There are more than eighty hotel or tourism leases being administered by the Native Land Trust Board which is responsible for leasing Fijians owned land on behalf of the owners. ...
• Fijians were pushed on socioeconomic ladder. ... Many Fijians businesses like Eimcol and Yellow Cabs failed due to mismanagement. ...
• We still saw Fijians Paramouncy. ... And his party was not only voted by the Indians but Fijians as well since the Labour Party won my Majority. ...

• Fijians say 'yes' when they mean 'no', if that is what they think you want to hear. ...
• Many Indo-Fijians think that Melanesian Fijians are dirty, stupid and violent; Melanesian Fijians think that the Indo-Fijians are greedy, self-serving materialists who should get out of their country, but leave their money behind; both groups think that white expats are arrogant, power-hungry snobs and the white expats look down on everyone else. ...
• At that temperature, Fijians feel cold and wear several layers of clothes, while the expats are still in shorts and T-shirts. ...
• I think it is worth saying that I use the words 'Melanesian Fijians' to refer to the ethnic group that is also called 'Indigenous Fijians'. ... Many of these people have a nationalist perspective and think that only they should be called Fijians and everyone else should be called Indians, Chinese, Europeans etc, no matter how many generations they have been here. Such people will also object to me calling the other main ethnic group 'Indo-Fijians' rather than just 'Indians'. ...
• My wife got caught up in the rioting and looting in Suva on the first day of the coup, 19 May, and it was a scary experience for her and for the Indo-Fijians who were the targets of the personal violence. ... This includes things like: the complicity of some police in the coup and in the robbing and burning of Indo-Fijian homes, farms and businesses, which went on for a lot longer than the time foreign journalists were here; the immediate emptying of tourist resorts, most of which are still empty; the queues of people outside the foreign embassies, as Fijians of all ethnic groups, although mainly the skilled Indo-Fijians, tried to leave the country. ...
• One of the things that struck me as I walked around Suva and watched the Indo-Fijians clearing up the remains of their businesses after the looting, was the indifference of many Melanesian Fijians and their apparent belief that it is okay for them to simply take what they want from Indo-Fijians because they are foreigners, no matter how many generations they have lived in Fiji. ...
• The people who invaded parliament are the front men for corrupt Fijians who benefited from former governments and who lost a lot of money, and important jobs that paid well for doing very little, when the Chaudhry government took over in the election of May 1999. ...
• Melanesian Fijians don't like the Indo-Fijians doing better than them in business and education, even though there are 'affirmative action' laws that favour the Melanesian Fijians in many areas of Fiji life. When Indo-Fijians get political power as well, there is a coup. The view of most Fijians, including those in the police, army, judiciary etc, can be summed up in the often-quoted, "We don't agree with George Speight's methods, but we agree with his aims and with what he says. ...
• I am in two minds about saying this, because I don't think it justifies what Speight and his supporters did and the man has been treated appallingly and unjustly, but I think Prime Minister Chaudhry himself has an aggressive style and does things that come across as biased in favour of Indians, and thus triggered off resentments in Fijians that a less combative person (Indian or otherwise) would not have. ...
• Power struggles between various groupings of Fijians, including east against west and chiefs against commoners - the latter being a bit like traditional power against new power. ...
• The legacy of British colonial power which: brought the Indians here and left them too poor to return when their period of indenture was finished; left most of the land in the hands of Melanesian Fijians and gave the Indo-Fijians leases to work the land, many of which are coming up for renewal about now (and which are not being renewed - many Indo-Fijians are being forced out of their homes and off the land where they have lived and worked for the past few generations); left the Melanesian Fijians as subsistence farmers owning the land and its resources, but with education for only a few chiefly families and not many opportunities for advancement into the positions that the British (and later others such as the Australians and New Zealanders) kept for themselves; and for leaving this cauldron behind at independence in 1970, with only a few democratic structures in place to try and cope with it, when powerful Fijians regard democracy as an alien system that gets in the way of them getting what they want. ...

• Presents, The Fijians .
• Fijians are mainly Melanesian with a trace of Polynesian ancestry. ...
• Today Fijians marry for love but continue to move into the husband's village, but in the cities this does not take place other, than in rituals. ...

• In the case of Fiji, tensions exist at two levels: the most obvious is the interethnic context with Indigenous Fijians and the immigrant indian community with the other communities relegated to the sidelines. The second and more subtle being those between indigenous Fijians themselves. ...
• It is the recurring nightmare of many Fijians that they will one day be a mendicant people without land, tradition, culture or soul. ... From first contact with the Christian missionaries when traditional belief systems were supplanted to colonialization, the effect of indenture and engagement with the modern world, Fijians have reacted and in doing so have yielded something of themselves.
• The rule of law to Fijians is an arcane concept that they perceive is a foreign idea imported to subvert their way of life. ...
• Almost all Fijians espouse some sort of Fijian unity. ... At the same time we are free to make common cause with others, Fijians as well as other communities, on other concerns which engage us. This is essentially an argument to remove Fijians from the straightjacket that keeps us all together for fear that we would be isolated apart. In any case, it has become a major challenge for politicians to keep Fijians together as economic and other interests fragment and dissipate their cohesiveness. ...

• FTIB Newsletter Fijians encouraged to invest.
• Fijians encouraged to invest .
• Two "Fijians in Business" seminars have been conducted as part of efforts by the Fiji Islands Trade and Investment Bureau to assist indigenous Fijians invest in the economy.
• During the seminars FTIB discussed specific investment projects which Fijians can participate in. ... Apart from producing profiles for the seminar, FTIB also invited agencies such as the Fiji Development Bank, Fijian Affairs Board, Micro-Finance Unit, and Small Business Advice Unit to speak on the types of assistance they provide to Fijians starting a business. "By encouraging investment by Fijians we will not only be helping to raise investment, but also contribute to the creation of a stable political environment, which in turn is critical for investment," Mr Vitusagavulu said.
• An overwhelming response of over 80 names responded to a one-day advertisement placed in the media for the Fijians in business seminar. ...

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