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Date Posted: 16:19:20 02/18/00 Fri
Author: Anonymous
Subject: just like small bisnis
In reply to: 's message, "As we were saying re Starbucks before the interruption:" on 07:21:49 02/18/00 Fri

It's the same problem with teaching small business skills to people in the business, as I mentioned earlier.

You can teach basic bookkeeping, etc., etc., but the cultural aspects that dominate village life simply prevent these things from working in reality, UNLESS you have an extremely strong personality who violates rules of egalatarianism (in which case their business will be eventually pulled down or destroyed), or UNLESS you have an extremely rare individual (like the kind of person you only find a few times during many, many village visits) who knows who to give enough away, and to the right people, without giving too much and destroying the business.

In creating these village businesses, the extremely strong personalities that get them going and running for a few years sometimes cause major disruptions in communities in their efforts. That equlilibrium may temporarily or even permanently destroy the ability of communities to work together and organise for community activities and development.

There is no argument from me that you can't run businesses unless you have the business skills that come from the western (and Asian) worlds. That is very true. However, the melanesian environment does not tend to allow those skills to be sustainable.

The suggestion was made that a resolution of this problem is for local businessmen to set up businesses outside their communities to reduce jealousy and wantok influence. That might be a quite good idea, but such ideas only come from a careful and wide assessment of what the situation currently is, and trying to find those rare examples where the right mechanisms are in place and the activity now works.

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  • sophisticated skills needed in community facilitation -- Anonymous, 07:02:15 02/20/00 Sun
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