Writing Tonga

 

TITLE:  What are some cultural facts about Tonga?

Introduction: 

The Tongan culture has some similarities with other Pacific island cultures, such as Samoa, Rarotonga and Fiji are just a few to name.

I will explain some facts about Tonga. The Kingdom of Tonga includes a variety of features and one of the most important things about the Tongan culture is their identity.

On the globe Tonga is on the Oceania near the other pacific islands and Tonga is on the southwestern Pacific Ocean and Tonga has about 170 islands  in the south-western Pacific. Tonga is known as being a friendly island because James cook travelled to Tonga and he was amazed by the hospitality of the Tongan people so he decided to call it the friendly island.

Some of Tonga's customs are that Tongan's place a high value on humility.  Everyone is expected to be humble, including the king. Some common practices of humility. Parents also avoid praising their children for accomplishments as a way to promote humility in the family. Some do and some don’t in the Tongan culture. Firstly, you should take care when admiring something owned by your Tongan peer.  One don’t that you should not do not gossip or speak of a person or their family to their peers without the individual’s knowledge. You may respectfully raise issues to them whilst they are present.  However, gossiping is considered to be profoundly disrespectful and inconsiderate.  

Tongans living conditions are below the poverty line  88 percent of Tonga's population live in rural areas of the country and this means most experience the highest rates of poverty and living conditions.

Tonga’s core values are mutual respect, sharing, and cooperating. fulfilment of mutual obligations, humility and generosity,loyalty and commitment. Family is the central unit of Tongan life. An example of respect is to acknowledge others and say thank you, an example of sharing is sharing different objects, an example of cooperating is including all members of a group in a discussion or team meeting, another example for humility is being grateful for what you have, a example for loyalty is being honest and telling the truth and the last example of being committed is Committing to Being Positive.

In summary I hope that you have learned some amazing facts about Tonga and some examples that you can do. Amazing facts about the different cultures and different things like there language, clothing and how they dance,these are some of the things that are different about Tongan and other pacific island cultures.

For  Tongan Language week we had to writing  facts and learn about the different facts that you should learn about the Tongan culture and the different things between other cultures and Tonga.