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Date Posted: 21:33:20 02/22/00 Tue
Author: Anonymous
Subject: Not a lot of spare time but......
In reply to: 's message, "Think about this" on 12:37:49 02/22/00 Tue

We have to work 40 hours a week to meet our basic needs. Villgers growing sweet potato and other garden crops have to work about 20 hours a week on all that. Add another 10 or 20 hours a week for all other needs, including politics, and you aren't talking about people who are totally stressed for time. Does it take more time to go to the garden and get food than it does to go to the store and buy it? I don't think so, but maybe. It also depends who you're talking about. People growing gardens in the highlands work a lot harder trying to grow kaukau on kunai grassland than those who can create gardens in forest, where the soil is more rich.

Remember, Papua New Guineans are definitely not like African villagers. Poverty is more likely to fit how people in an African village live, compared to PNG. Papua New Guineans in general (there are exceptions) are not very marginalised, especially compared to resource-short Africans and landless Southern American peasants.

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