Beliefs
Though the French introduced French Polynesia to Catholicism in 1845, only 10 percent of the population is Catholic. The Tahitians follow a religion/heritage once built by the Maohi ancestors. One belief they have is that within everyone's physical body, there lies a soul. The soul wanders around when you’re sleeping (this projects your dreams), and it inhabits your body when you’re awake. Death occurs when your soul leaves the body. Some also believe that people have two souls; when you die, one soul goes to God’s World, where it remains in either heaven or hell, while the other stays in the present world, wandering about in the village it once lived in. Some residents also follow the Christian calendar, which has some major and …show more content…
The males outnumber the females by a whopping 2.4 percent, however, the percentage always changes as people die and are born every few seconds. The deaths as of this year is around 3700 people and the births as of this year is 3 624. Their official language is French, but 68 000 people speak Tahitian (about 31.4 percent) as the rest of the population speaks French (61.1 percent), Asian languages (1.2 percent), while other languages are either unidentified or other (6.3 percent), and many people are Protestant as 54 percent of the population falls into that religion, whereas the rest are Christian (30 percent), Roman Catholic (10 percent), and 6 percent follows no religion. The country if made up of Natives, Indians, Chinese, and French. When French Polynesia signed the census back in 2012, 68.5 percent of the country’s population was living on Tahiti itself! Their national anthem is titled, “ la Ora ‘O Tahiti Nui”, translated as “Long Live Tahiti Nui”. The life expectancy is around 75 years old (in 2011) and the median age for men is 29.5 years whereas the median age for women stands at 29.8 years. The population density is 60.5 per square …show more content…
The Moahi had once made their huts out of bamboo, and to this day, the Tahitians still make them as such. They had also kept the tradition of wearing colourful pareus, a printed cotton cloth. Young dancers from time to time will practice their hip-hop choreography in the evening of French Polynesia. Their modern is made of of contemporary Western beats and traditional nasal flutes, drums, and conch shells combined. They have many local dances, festivals, and festivities that include modern Tahitian music and traditional food are served (cooked on top of an underground oven covered with layers of hot rocks on top) such as bananas and breadfruit. As their culture is uniquely simple, they describe it as “do not worry”, also said as “aita pea pea” in
Though the French introduced French Polynesia to Catholicism in 1845, only 10 percent of the population is Catholic. The Tahitians follow a religion/heritage once built by the Maohi ancestors. One belief they have is that within everyone's physical body, there lies a soul. The soul wanders around when you’re sleeping (this projects your dreams), and it inhabits your body when you’re awake. Death occurs when your soul leaves the body. Some also believe that people have two souls; when you die, one soul goes to God’s World, where it remains in either heaven or hell, while the other stays in the present world, wandering about in the village it once lived in. Some residents also follow the Christian calendar, which has some major and …show more content…
The males outnumber the females by a whopping 2.4 percent, however, the percentage always changes as people die and are born every few seconds. The deaths as of this year is around 3700 people and the births as of this year is 3 624. Their official language is French, but 68 000 people speak Tahitian (about 31.4 percent) as the rest of the population speaks French (61.1 percent), Asian languages (1.2 percent), while other languages are either unidentified or other (6.3 percent), and many people are Protestant as 54 percent of the population falls into that religion, whereas the rest are Christian (30 percent), Roman Catholic (10 percent), and 6 percent follows no religion. The country if made up of Natives, Indians, Chinese, and French. When French Polynesia signed the census back in 2012, 68.5 percent of the country’s population was living on Tahiti itself! Their national anthem is titled, “ la Ora ‘O Tahiti Nui”, translated as “Long Live Tahiti Nui”. The life expectancy is around 75 years old (in 2011) and the median age for men is 29.5 years whereas the median age for women stands at 29.8 years. The population density is 60.5 per square …show more content…
The Moahi had once made their huts out of bamboo, and to this day, the Tahitians still make them as such. They had also kept the tradition of wearing colourful pareus, a printed cotton cloth. Young dancers from time to time will practice their hip-hop choreography in the evening of French Polynesia. Their modern is made of of contemporary Western beats and traditional nasal flutes, drums, and conch shells combined. They have many local dances, festivals, and festivities that include modern Tahitian music and traditional food are served (cooked on top of an underground oven covered with layers of hot rocks on top) such as bananas and breadfruit. As their culture is uniquely simple, they describe it as “do not worry”, also said as “aita pea pea” in