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Many Tongans now live overseas, in a Tongan diaspora, and send home remittances to family members (often aged) who prefer to remain in Tonga. Tongans themselves often have to operate in two different contexts, which they often call anga fakatonga , [ 1 ] the traditional Tongan way, and anga fakapālangi , the Western way.
Tongans or Tongan people are a Polynesian ethnic group native to Tonga, a Polynesian archipelago in the Pacific Ocean. Tongans represent more than 98% of the inhabitants of Tonga. The rest are European (the majority are British ), mixed European, and other Pacific Islanders .
Tongan kava ceremonies are a variety of ceremonies involving the kava plant that play an integral part of Tongan society and governance.They play a role in strengthening cultural values and principles, solidifying traditional ideals of duty and reciprocity, reaffirming societal structures, and entrenching the practice of pukepuke fonua (lit. "tightly holding onto the land"), a Tongan cultural ...
Buddhism has begun to gain traction, growing from 0.2% to 0.4% of the population in five years. [8] Hinduism decreased from 104 people in 2006 to 100 in 2010. [7]The Baháʼí Faith in Tonga started after being set as a goal to introduce the religion in 1953, [9] and Baháʼís arrived in 1954. [10]
This prompted severe persecution against the remaining Wesleyans from agents of both the Tongan Government and the Tongan Free Church, [5] a reaction that inspired James Egan Moulton’s (Tōketā Moulitoni) composition and translation of the poignant Wesleyan hymns that have become a central feature of contemporary ecumenism throughout the nation.
As female residents of Tonga, women in Tonga had been described in 2000 by the Los Angeles Times as members of Tongan society who traditionally have a "high position in Tongan society" due to the country's partly matriarchal foundation but "can't own land", "subservient" to husbands in terms of "domestic affairs" and "by custom and law, must dress modestly, usually in Mother Hubbard-style ...
Tongan troops saw battle against the Japanese in the Solomon Islands campaign, including on Guadalcanal. [18] A key advisor of Sālote's, from 1924 to 1946, was Australian missionary Rodger Page, who played a key role in the reunification of the Free Wesleyan Church of Tonga, of which she was a member.
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