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Date Posted: 08:09:48 01/11/00 Tue
Author: Anonymous
Subject: Did we say PNGians aren't lazy?

Reposted this from the archives. Are PNGians lazy? Or sure, have seen more lazy men then harkworking women outside the public and corporate offices. Listen you go to any wantoks house and all you see are females [women and girls] cooking, making tea, going to the market and digging the mumu pit and doing mumu themselves while the males indulge themselves in beer and smoke. PNG men are inimical of the song called "the 3 S"; Sliip, Simuk na Sindaun everyday.

Hehehehe....go katin kona nabaut lukim!



Date Posted: 22:58:24 01/10/00 Mon
Author: Anonymous
Subject: Beauty and the curse of being rich - PNGean work ethics
In reply to: 's message, "Re: What Should Have Been?" on 22:58:24 01/10/00 Mon

In the beginning, all humans were as lazy as they could afford to be.

But then some humans lost their ability to get everything they needed from the environment around them.

Some overpopulated their land so there was no longer enough to go around. Some made foolish mistakes and lost their
land to others. Some overused their resources.

All those people could not afford to be lazy anymore. They had to grow rice... because they had no choice. They had to
work hard in a factory... because they had no choice. Because you see, anyone who had a choice would have been lazy.

After awhile, the "no choice" cultures instituted hard work as a cultural norm. Why? Because they had no choice. If you
have no land and no resources that you can draw upon for your life needs in the environment that surrounds you, you
bloody well better teach your kids to work hard, otherwise they won't survive.

And so we have the Chinese. And people from India. And today, even the Nigerians. And let's not forget the Americans.
All work hard today. They teach their kids to work hard. When they leave their shores and migrate to other countries, they
teach the same thing, even though in PNG, they have reached the land of plenty.

Most Papua New Guineans are rich in land and resources even now. They're lazy. But our squatters working the oil palm
plantations around Kimbe aren't. Simbu people aren't aren't. The Melpa people in the Wahgi Valley aren'.t They all work
very hard. But why?

Must we always take the western perspective in evaluating PNG culture and work ethics?

Kaikai bilo tingting

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