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Any description of Tongan culture that limits itself to what Tongans see as anga fakatonga would give a seriously distorted view of what people actually do, in Tonga, or in diaspora, because accommodations are so often made to anga fakapālangi. The following account tries to give both the idealized and the on-the-ground versions of Tongan culture.
Social history of Tonga (4 C) Human rights in Tonga (2 C, 4 P) L. ... Pages in category "Society of Tonga" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total.
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 ...
Pillarisation (a calque from the Dutch: verzuiling [vɛrˈzœylɪŋ] ⓘ) is the vertical separation of citizens into groups by religion and associated political beliefs.. These societies were (and in some areas, still are) divided into two or more groups known as pillars (Dutch: zu
In 1916, the first Tongan immigrants settled in the town of Laie on the island of Oahu, marking the beginning of the local Tongan community. [1] After the end of World War II , more Tongans arrived in Hawaii .
Tonga was named the sixth-most corrupt country in the world by Forbes magazine in 2008. [65] Tonga was ranked the 165th-safest investment destination in the world in the March 2011 Euromoney Country Risk rankings. [66] The manufacturing sector consists of handicrafts and a few other very small-scale industries, which contribute only about 5% of ...
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the discipline of sociology: . Sociology – the study of society [1] using various methods of empirical investigation [2] and critical analysis [3] to understand human social activity, from the micro level of individual agency and interaction to the macro level of systems and social structure.