The best example of how many pacific islands have adapted to a mix of different ethnic groups is that they have developed national pidgin languages. This languages enable communication between this people of different ethnic groups.

How did the geography affect how cultures developed in the Pacific island nations? The standout geographical feature is that these are islands separated by hundreds or thousands of miles of ocean. Isolation suggests that they each developed their own culture, not influenced by other cultures.

Due to colonial neglect and historical isolation, the Pacific Islands, home to the world’s most diverse range of indigenous cultures, continue to sustain many ancestral life-ways. Fewer than 6.5 million in all, the peoples of Oceania possess a vast repository of cultural traditions and ecological adaptations.

Pacific Islanders’ cultures follow customs and traditions based on ancient principles that promote living an honorable and noble lifestyle. Embedded deeply into the Polynesian culture are traditional music, dance, and food.

And so, evolution – evolution for adaptation – made that a Polynesians’ body is now more able to stock energy (fat, glucides, etc.). It is why we (Polynesian ethnicity) tend to grow up big and strong, because we tend to stock energy more easily that some other people.

Pacific Islanders refer to those whose origins are the original peoples of Polynesia, Micronesia, and Melanesia. Polynesia includes Hawaii (Native Hawaiian), Samoa (Samoan), American Samoa (Samoan), Tokelau (Tokelauan), Tahiti (Tahitian), and Tonga (Tongan).

The population consists of two principal ethnic groups: the indigenous Melanesian population or those of mixed Melanesian-Polynesian origin (subsequently referred to as indigenous Fijians), who now constitute a majority of the population (475,739, 56.8 per cent), and the Indo-Fijian (commonly referred to as Indian) …

Most indigenous Fijians, dark-skinned people who are ethnically Melanesian, either scrape out a living as subsistence farmers or work for ethnic Indian bosses. Far from expressing resentment, many are quick to say they admire the Indian culture, which ethnic Indians have clung to through the generations.

Fijian

The concept of ‘Melanesia’ begins with an 18th-century European theory: that the indigenous populations of the Pacific islands, now called Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu, New Caledonia, Solomon Islands and Fiji, had darker skin and were thus a different race than the inhabitants of the islands grouped as Micronesia (‘small …

They are indigenous to all parts of Fiji except the island of Rotuma. The original settlers are now called “Lapita people” after a distinctive pottery produced locally….Fijians.

While some scholars have theorized that indigenous Australians descended from a separate, earlier migration than that of Eurasian people, the study’s authors report that the majority of non-Africans stem from a single ancestral group of migrants who left Africa approximately 72,000 years ago and eventually spread …