Most of the Melanesians living in Papua New Guinea have very curly hair, don't they?
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Melanesians
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Native Fijians are Melanesians, a kind of Australoid people, but they speak a Malayo-Polynesian language, perhaps adopted anciently from islander neighbours who were not Melanesians. My neighbours, the Wongs, who are multiracial from Fiji, know a bit of Fijian. They like learning English, but I say to them, "Your Fijian is much more beautiful!"
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Unlike the rest of Indonesia, the people of Papua province are ethnic Melanesians and their culture more closely resembles that of groups in South Pacific islands.
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