Archive for August 7th, 2008
Good Neighbours
Thursday, August 7th, 2008Like its Pacific neighbours, Vanuatu is culturally rich and uniquely alluring. Its peoples have developed over three thousand years with little outside interaction. The simplicity and idyllic naïveté depicted in popular Western culture is mostly in the eye of the observer. Life in Vanuatu is simple, but only in the sense that modern life in North America and Western Europe is ‘easy’: It’s true, provided you’ve spent all your life getting used to it.
But now, our cultures are melding and changing, and we don’t have a lifetime to get used to it.