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Date Posted: 19:21:55 02/18/00 Fri
Author: Anonymous
Subject: I think a rethink is needed on your part
In reply to: 's message, "What parts of our society do we reject." on 17:37:19 02/18/00 Fri

Why don't you define the word "kanaka" before you embark on your intellectual discourse? I am proud of the fact that my relatives live in the bush, lived in harmony with nature and with each other in a truly egalitarian community that led one noted sociologist to remark that it was the perfect and most successful example of communism. And yet the foreigners who came in to "pacify" us termed us "kanakas"!

By looking at the way in which you have sought to embark on your little intellectual exercise, it is obvious that you are adopting a conceptual framework that is heavily westernised in its slant. Hence your use of the derogatory word "kanaka" to classify a proud and noble people, the traditional Melanesian inhabitants of PNG. Hence your approach to judge our evolution into "civilised" individuals from the extreme negative end of the scale "the kanaka" (thus connoting that it is a western scale).


And all of this from a person who would claim to be ethnically and legally a Papua New Guinean. Your language makes me cringe. It saddens me to find a PNGean talking the way you are talking and trying to judge his fellow PNGeans and his community.

You sadden me.

Maybe you should reflect on your conceptual framework. Because sadly, its putting you totally out of touch with PNG, and with grassroots PNG.

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