Wright (1947:23) best sums up this difference in values and standards of living: "If civilization were measured by flush toilets, ice cubes, machine guns, and sewing machines, then Micronesians were indeed savages. If however, civilization meant an economic system in which there was no relative poverty, but rather adequate food, shelter, physical security, and a social system in which all participated equally and actively in the material and aesthetic standards of community life, then the people of Micronesia were indeed civilized and had much to teach the rest of the world."I LOVED THE WAY THIS WAS WRITTEN, I believe everyone on Guam should read this, maybe then they would have the courage to be as our ancestors were. Maybe then, they wouldn't have these "false hopes," of what America should be or have the "American Dream." What once was "We are the people of the land" are now saying "the land belongs to us."
To understand that land, our land in specific gives us an identity, a sense of belonging. It's not just another thing that can be bought, sold, traded, or condemned by anyone.
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