NB: Pacific Islanders have had enough of the Western influences, packaged and delivered in so many surreptitious manners. “Palagi pipelo” are the naughty white lies told by whiteman, whereas “palagi pipilo” is “whiteman stinks” and often this treatment stinks.
PALAGI PIPILO
No offence meant, but, please, enough is enough. If you are not aware of the impacts and insults being made on PIs, and are prepared to at least acknowledge them or even do something to correct them in order to make a better world, then sit back and relax as the story unwinds, the facts emerge, the realizations get realized and accepted. An apology is even possible. Legislation is even better. Failing that, a class action suit is pending.
The Pacific Ocean is currently under siege and Pacific Islanders are becoming second or even third-rate citizens in their own country because of social, political, economic, historic, trade, environmental and even touristic reasons.
So, when you go on a holiday to Oceania, choose your holiday destination carefully. For example, you will not see us Kids in the Pacific French Protectorates (muraroa Atoll, Tahiti, Maquesas, New Caledonia, Wallis and Futuna) because of their Napoleonic arrogance and the dismissive social graces of the colonial powers.
We Kids just can’t relax on the beach as a family amidst the Tahitian oppression, overt materialism at any expense of the Tahitians themselves. But that’s just us. You adults may relish in such oppression.
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