Manit Day

Manit means culture.

To be very very very honest... there isn't much of a culture to celebrate...and the little there is left of the little their used to be is... well... kind of boring.

Mostly they celebrate the cultures of every other island nation in teh pacific... the ones that have...well... physical culture...

the dances are dead... so now they are stolen
the food is bland...

BUT THANK GOD FOR GRASS SKIRTS AND COCONUT BRAWS. because i thought this was awsome!

the little cultural stuff they had might have/was probably destroyed by the missionaries. things were labeled "immoral" and the peopel were "civilized"....

but honestly... there was little physical culture to destroy here... so there is not much to mourn...

What I would really like to give a moment of silence to is the slowly disappearing cultural things that aren't visible right away, that aren't pretty and you can't put in your house. I would like a moment of silence of all teh many thigns teh marshallese have to offer the world that I think is being erroded by American individualism, a monetary notion of progress, and ...hmmm "gansta" music.