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Date Posted: 11:11:51 02/14/00 Mon
Author: Anonymous
Subject: FOOD FOR THOUGHT
In reply to: 's message, "Alternate grassroots perspective-how do my fellow educated PNGeans respond?" on 08:52:20 02/14/00 Mon

Here a question for all educated native Papua New Guineans. The poem above is nice and has a lot of historical fact to it. No one alive in the world today had anything to do with the slavery and all that other stuff. In all civilized societies in the world today slavery is bannished, so progress has been made on that point.

In retrospect, are you truely sorry that white men came to the country and changed things? Being edicated and knowing what you know today, would you rather they not have come here and then you would continue to be like the person in the poem? A person of subsistence, free to roam the entire country and live the way they did 150 years ago?

I ask this because sometimes too much is made of history. It is very important to learn history and understand what events took place to bring us to this point in civilazation, however, we also have to ask if we would want to get into a time machine and go back and undo history, erase the good results as well as the bad stuff.

FOOD FOR THOUGHT!!!!

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