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Date Posted: 17:31:46 01/12/00 Wed
Author: Anonymous
Subject: Re: Transition to an urban environment: do corrupt politicians take advantage?
In reply to: 's message, "Transition to an urban environment: do corrupt politicians take advantage?" on 05:38:18 01/12/00 Wed

These are excellant observations. You made your thoughts very clear. The environment in PNG is indeed changing. In 25 years it has gone from a basically primitive society to that of emerging nation status. These transitions sometimes take many generations to transpire. PNG is on the right track. The question now is, does the current educated generation have the will to continue to move forward while more of the others become educated and add their strengths and talents to the society as a unified nation? I think they do.

You mention the closed communities verses the more open communities. This is where the awarenss comes into play. 50 years ago New Guinea was a land of separate tribes and villages each with their own laws and cultures. Like individual little nations on the same island(closed communities). Today these individual tribes are now slowly melting into one large group on their way to melting into one unified nation. Unfortunatly many of the tribal New Guineans still do not understand the working of the government in Port Moresby, so national politics is not high on their lists of concerns. They still look to their tribal leaders as the government. To tell them that some leader in Port Moresby stole a lot of money doesn't have much effect on them because they do not have any money to begin with so they don't feel he stoled from them. As the younsgters of these small communities get better educated and join the monetary system the politicans will have a larger constiguency to answer to and then things will be different. He will be shamed no matter where he goes in PNG.

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