2. The way the world should be: Vanua and taukei

Speight of Violence 4

'Fiji, the way the world should be' is an advertising slogan that has survived three coups. If you tell the rest of the world often enough that this place is a Pacific paradise, then it becomes hardly surprising when you start believing it, and developing the view that nothing much needs fixing. The nineteenth-century 'Cannibal Isles' label has deftly b…