<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2016-02-26 10:38 GMT+01:00 Jean-Guilhem Cailton <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jgc@arkemie.com" target="_blank">jgc@arkemie.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Apparently your point of view about "ungoing colonization" is not
shared by Fidjian officials, news media, nor by OSM mappers of Fiji
so far.</blockquote></div><br><br><br clear="all">I'm all but well informed about the current situation in Fiji (I just read the Internet, haven't been there), still I am not at all surprised about this. I wrote using English as primary name seemed to me kind of an act of ongoing colonization / suppression by the west, and you reply: officials and the official media don't share this view. Seriously?<br><br>Anyway, what I have learned in my short research was that using English seems to be seen (or is advocated) as anti-suppression, because it is neither Fijian nor Fiji Hindi but is foreign to either ethnicity and therefor not privilegizing one of them, at least officially.<br><br>Have you had a look about the representation of the different ethnities among the Fiji Officials and news media? Are you aware that there is very low diffussion of media in general (3 daily newspapers and 2 weekly ones, 51 daily copies per 1000 inhabitants, tv since 1991 and just one tv station which is operated by the government), 55.000 internet connections, 102.000 phone connections, 109.000 cell phones, 541.000 radios and 91.000 tv sets for a population of 890.000 (numbers might be outdated, from Wikipedia:de). <br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I wonder if there is a climate in Fiji where you could agree to my view without fear of suppression. I don't know how many OSM Mappers mapping in Fiji are actually residents there, and to which ethnicity the belong to, but you can see from international reports on the country, e.g. amnesty international or freedomhouse, that it isn't easy to express opposition to the official view, and that at least the traditional media can't write whatever they like (e.g. "There were no confirmed reports of government restrictions on private
discussion on political matters or other sensitive topics in 2014.
Personal blogs and other forms of social media, both for and against the
interim government, operated with relative freedom, unlike traditional
media.", freedomhouse, 2015)<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Anyway, I only asked to add English names with an "en" postfix, not to refrain from adding them. <br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><a href="http://www.refworld.org/docid/54f07df26.html">http://www.refworld.org/docid/54f07df26.html</a><br><a href="https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-world/2015/fiji">https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-world/2015/fiji</a><br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">cheers,<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Martin<br></div></div>