Pacific Islanders - The Real Pain Behind The Biggest Smiles In The World
A deep seated and unacknowledged depression will kill Pacific Island cultures and her people. Most Psychologists will tell you that the people with the biggest smiles and loudest personalities are usually the most frightened or are hiding the greatest depths of despair and depression. Most notably from themselves. So what then do they say when you come across not a just a single person in this situation, not just a whole country or race, for indeed the Pacific is made up of three distinct and very different ethic groups Melanesian, Polynesian and Micronesian, but an entire global region. Many Islanders will tell you that the reason we're all so happy is that we used to live in dark and evil times and that European missionaries brought us your white god and religious betrothal to that god. A god that most westerners have no further time for. We would have you believe that we're so joyously happy because we've been saved. Lost Connections The truth is most Islanders you meet...