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Some insight into how media images are processed into behavior comes from a 2004 Harvard study on the arrival of TV in Western Fiji. The most noticeable change was that Fijian women became dissatisfied with their bodies and tried to lose weight. They didn't necessarily want to be like Europeans; they just wanted to look like them. Is it possible that the situation for teens and tweens is the same? They don't want to be like the characters in Gossip Girl (only 16% of whose viewers are actually teen girls) or America's Next Top Model; they just...
...years as an elite footballer, Lote Tuqiri, the Wallabies' granite-hard Fijian-born winger, has collided with players of all colors. The truth, he says, is that they all feel more or less the same. But, he adds, the Maori and Islander player "grows up with the sense that you're bigger than most of the people you play against. That puts a thing in your head that you're a powerful force, and you never quite lose that feeling. And you don't want to. You always want to intimidate with your physicality...
...have to be unhappy about how you look, no matter how you look to begin with.” “You have to not feel good about yourself in order to be a good consumer,” Shames said. Becker, an anthropologist, found that the Fijian populace—where women were traditionally very comfortable with varying body images—was radically changed within three years by the introduction of television. (Fiji was one of the last places on Earth to receive television access.) The community began to obsess over dieting, and 11 percent of teenage...
...current U.N. mission in Baghdad is tiny. Their cramped offices are located at the end of a series of concrete and razor-wire-lined streets in the Green Zone, accessed through Fijian, Peruvian and Ugandan checkpoints. Meanwhile, UNICEF, the U.N.'s children's aid organization, is the most conspicuously absent. Others, such as the World Health Organization, UNHCR (the U.N.'s refugee agency) and the U.N. Development Programme have between zero and three people in Baghdad at any given time. The security alert for the office is at level four, one stage before evacuation...
Since he seized power last december, Fijian military leader Frank Bainimarama has regularly accused opponents of trying to destabilize his regime. Last week he went further. Police arrested 16 men, including New Zealand businessman Ballu Khan, a Fijian high chief, and the country's former intelligence chief, over an alleged plot to assassinate Bainimarama, Finance Minister Mahendra Chaudhry, Attorney General Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum, and two senior military officers...