What is Fijian culture like?

What is Indo-Fijian culture?

• Answer:

  Indo-Fijian culture would be the culture of Indo-Fijians. Fiji is an island nation in the western Pacific ocean. The indigenous Fijian population is mainly Melanesian. During the 19th century, the British colonisers brought a large number of Indians to Fiji to work as indentured labourers in the sugar industry. Today, the descendants of those Indians make up about 40% of the population of Fiji, with Melanesian Fijians forming the remaining 60%. Indo-Fijians have retained their Indian heritage and languages; but after 100+ years in Fiji the community has developed some unique aspects. "Fiji Hindi" is a dialect of Hindi which incorporates many words and expressions particular to Fiji. The original labourers were brought from many different parts if India, so Fiji was something of a "melting pot" - people where thrown together from widely different parts of India, with different language groups, castes etc, who would not have had much contact otherwise. As usual, more info in the Wikipaedia article