In much of Fiji’s colonial literature, the perilous lives of the early European settlers and their mixed-blooded/ kailoma offspring have sadly escaped the history books in the recording of frontier history.

1998年3月16日 · On the local scene, we, the Kailoma/Vasu are known to be the descendants of early European settlers and Fijian women. However, as mentioned above, other ‘mixed’ people with Fijian blood also identify with the Kailoma/Vasu label. Under the colonial system the Kailoma interracial identity proved problematic for imperial administrators.

2020年7月15日 · My mom took a 23andMe test and actually matched with many many islanders including a full Fijian from Lau, full Samoans, full Tongans, even some mixed blood Hawaains. Great to see other islanders testing!

Europeans widely regarded mixed-bloods as debased, contaminated or immoral. To many whites, half-castes were the products of a regrettable union and the confronting evidence of white men’s weakness towards native women.

Fiji’s earliest recorded mixed bloods are the descendants of figures like Pickering and his contemporary David Whippy of Nantucket, US: beachcombers, sailors, boat builders, planters or cattlemen who settled in Fiji from the late eighteenth century

When growing up mixed race in Fiji, families tend to align themselves much more with one side of the family, rather than finding an equal balance between the two. In

2021年10月20日 · If you were to split my blood into percentages, you’d see me as about 37.5% Fijian, 25% English, 25% Italian, and 12.5% Chinese. What information does that actually give you? Sure, there’s the argument that if you don’t split your ethnicity up like this, you risk losing connections with all the different ethnicities you whakapapa to.

Yet as the fine grain in my story reveals, Fijian mixed-bloods by virtue of their racially-mixed heritage have routinely crossed all barriers of their mixed heritage that were designed to determine race, culture and place of belonging.

2007年2月6日 · This paper discusses the issue of miscegenation and race segregation in colonial Fiji during 1920 – 70 in the lead-up to independence and it traces the emergence of a racially mixed community of Fijian/European mixed bloods (“Kailomas”) during early white settlement.

Fijian people of mixed descent were called half-caste, kailoma or vasu. European and Indian immigrants started migrating to Fiji and intermarrying during the period of colonial rule.