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June 22

Demographics of sport fans in Fiji

Sport in Fiji addresses this question, but very briefly (the third sentence of the introduction) and without citation.

During a recent conversation with an Indian man from Fiji, I learnt that cricket has a non-trivial following in the country. Is the sport dominated by Indians, or does it have a significant following among Polynesians, too? I was strongly tempted to ask him, but being aware of the country's recent political history, I figured it was safest to say nothing. Nyttend (talk) 11:49, 22 June 2024 (UTC)

Is cricket connected with politics in Fiji? ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 17:05, 22 June 2024 (UTC)

Pope/Catholic, Bears/woods memes spring to mind. MinorProphet (talk)

Bugs, I'm guessing that it's not directly related, but wondering if it might be tangentially related. The issue is the political effects of the country's deep racial/ethnic/cultural divide between Indians and Fijians; when talking with people from Fiji, I've always avoided mentioning anything directly related to that. If the United States had a much larger black population and a recent history of race-based military coups, and if I were a visitor from overseas, I wouldn't go around asking Americans about racial matters, even innocuous things like "do blacks and whites tend to follow the same sports". Nyttend (talk) 09:38, 23 June 2024 (UTC)

So, you really wanted to ask him about race, more than about cricket? ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 14:48, 23 June 2024 (UTC)

About the interaction between race and sport, thus the header for this section. Nyttend (talk) 09:51, 24 June 2024 (UTC)

Have a look at Fiji national cricket team#Current squad and Fiji national rugby league team#Current squad. What do you think? Beware of stereotyping, but not many Khans and Kumars play rugger at the national level.... Being a bold sort of person, I would have asked your interlocutor whether he thought Frank Bainimarama should be in prison. MinorProphet (talk) 20:31, 22 June 2024 (UTC)