Fiji’s cultural identity is an amalgam of its iTaukei indigenous people, Indo-Fijians who arrived during the British colonial era to work on sugarcane farms in the early 1880s and European, Chinese and other Pacific Island influences. This has created a society where diverse traditions thrive side by side, whether that is in the languages they speak (English, iTaukei and Fiji Hindi); religious customs, which extend from ceremonial traditions of the iTaukei to Christian communities and Hindu temples; and cuisines, like the iTaukei dishes of kokoda, spicy Indian curries and flavourful Chinese stir-fries.