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The 1988 population census found a total of about 190,000 people in French Polynesia. However the criteria used for defining the racial groups can only approximate a breakdown of: 70% Polynesian, 12% European, 10% Polynesian/European, five per-cent Chinese, and th ....

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.... the age of 14. Primary education begins at age five, and continues to the age of 12, when children begin secondary education. There are several technical and vocational schools in Tahiti, as well as a large adult education program. Vocational training includes hotel, restaurant, nursing and teaching programs. Arts and culture As weaving was unknown in the old days, tapa cloth was made by women from the bark of the paper mulberry, breadfruit, and banyan trees. The boughs were soaked in a river for several days, the outer bark then stripped off and the inner bark separated from it. The softened inner bark was placed on a block of wood and beaten w ....