Fijians

By birth we are the citizens of Fiji and therefore we should be called Fijians but under the sub-category we should be identified as Fijians, Indians, Samoans, Tongans, Whites from NZ or Australia etc.

Bloggers React to 'A Better Fiji' 2008

_Adams_ was expected here last year, but she must have passed by here, and gone on to Fiji There is always work for a man-of-war there at any time -- the Fijians are a rough lot, and hardly a month passes without some European trader or sailor being killed and eaten, or else badly hurt.

John Frewen, South Sea Whaler 1904 Louis Becke 1884

It's no wonder that the Fijians are the World Champions in sevens even though their country is infinitesimally smaller than all of their competitors.

HeraldNet.com Local, Sports, Business and Entertainment News 2010

"The Fijians are a little like the Brazilians in football," said Lhermet.

Planet Rugby News - Rugby Union News 2008

The above is rarely witnessed nowadays because true Fijians chiefs are an endangered species.

Global Voices in English » Fiji: Tension rises between government and Methodist Church 2009

But Bainimarama insisted Fiji would not hold elections until his government could remake the country's race-based electoral code that allows the majority ethnic Fijians to vote on different rolls than ethnic Indians and other minority groups.

Global Voices in English » Fiji faces suspension from Pacific Islands Forum 2009

The international community will want to see these changes improve the lives and freedoms of ordinary Fijians.

Fiji state of emergency to be lifted 2012

This is not because she is an unfeeling person but rather, I suspect, because she believes chiefs are born to rule, and that Fiji, first and foremost, must be for Fijians.

Global Voices in English » Fiji: Tension rises between government and Methodist Church 2009

When he seized power in a bloodless coup, Bainimarama said Fiji's ruling political classes were corrupt and that the existing voting system was racially biased to give indigenous Fijians greater voting power than the ethnic Indians who make up around 35% of the nation's 900,000 people.

Fiji state of emergency to be lifted 2012

We will not have a system that will classify Fijians based on ethnicity, he said, adding that voting would be extended to 18-year-olds.

Fiji state of emergency to be lifted 2012