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Social media and the youth culture

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 SOCIAL MEDIA  AND THE YOUTH CULTURE Social media is more than likes in todays world as it now also does influences peoples fashion sense and even how they talk. There are apps like TikTok, Instagram, Facebook and other social media apps which influence us today. People mostly try to copy those who are setting trends in mostly tiktok and instagram as they go viral with their content. Some of the examples of famous local tiktokers are Shermont and Alvin. It is a copy of people to follow on the trends but no creativity on making something of your own. People in fiji are creating their own viral videos using tiktok and other apps by making entertaining videos like comedy ones. Social media is a platform which can make a person really confident and also insecure like if someones posting a video and he or she gets a lot of likes and gets supported locally can gain confidence through it but some people become insecure in they see themselves on the screen or someone taking a video of...

Education system and the challenges

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 The Education System and its Challenges Schools mostly focuses on memorising on what we have learnt bur not the real life skills. The schools lack the practical part where the students must be taught using practical, just by throwing out words out of the mouth wont help them understand. The students do not know about the real worlds skills that are required such as job hunting and paying of bills. the Curriculum in schools are really not updated as they still follow the olden days as there are many challenges we have to face in todays world. There are limited teaching on career after school. The schools must teach real life skills to students in which they should include real world topics which will actually help them. The pressure is put on students during the exam to perform really well, the pressure which leads to stress and anxiety. This is the time when the students only think about passing the subject not understanding it. Schools mostly focuses on making the students pass i...

Boxing in Fiji

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 Boxing is one of the most oldest sport that have been played in Fiji, and is controlled by the Fiji boxing commission. It is a sport where everyone can participate, people from the rural and urban areas as it requires pure skill. Fiji has some well known boxers who have rose from underground boxing in Fiji such as Nathan Singh, Sebastian Singh, Sunia Cama and Farzan Ali. The most popular boxing was in the year 70s and 80s as the hype for boxing became more the people became more interested in the sport and started betting on their favourite to win, most of the people liked this sport because of how dangerous it is Just in recent years boxing have been revived to its core as there are more boxing events happening and that takes people interest as events happens all the time. Many young people are taking boxing to stay fit and to learn to defend themselves and some even to start a career from it. People mostly join boxing gyms to enhance their skills, there are boxing gyms located i...

How does Rugby unites the pacific

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How does Rugby unites us as a Pacific Rugby started in the year 1823 and since then it had a big impacts in the sport field as some of the countries were known because of this sport like South Africa and Fiji. Rugby is a team game played with a oval shaped ball, the winner is decided by which team has scored the most points.  Rugby unites us as a pacific as it makes all the people from the pacific and the world to come together and enjoy the game such as Fiji sevens and Manu samoa. For some people it is considered as a national pride and when a team beats another team it makes them really proud of their nationality. People celebrate like a festival when their country wins. This sport is not just a sport but a emotion for people, it rings all the families and villages together to cheer for their favourite teams. The sport also represents our culture as it showcases our traditional dances like the fijian cibi, it gives goosebumps as the dance is presented as the supporters and even t...