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The Tropical Islands of Vanuatu Have a Special Place for Pigs in the Local General Elections

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Hilary Clinton, through her untiring efforts and fortitude, has become an icon for women to enter the higher echelons of politics in the United States.

It is evident that the battle for Vice-President could well be fought in the female arena.

Long has it been said that that ‘the female hand that rocks the cradle rocks the nation’. Once again this may be proven to be true in the 21st Century political arena. More and more women are mobilizing in favor for female candidates in the USA presidential election.

According to political writer Douglas Drenkow, for Obama to succeed in the polls, he should consider electing a woman for Vice-President. This should lessen the impact should McCain choose to follow suit.

A world apart, the South Pacific Island Paradise of Vanuatu, is undeterred by the 21st Century trends.

One time voted in 2006 as the “Happiest Country on the Earth”. This small tropical island thrives on a heavily male dominant society, whereby it is a rarity for women to acquire the high rankings of chiefly, or political status.

The Shepherds group is a small group of islands in Vanuatu archipelago of 83, that acknowledges the female acquisition of chiefly status through the matrilineal lineage system, either by birth or matrimonial rights.

Therefore, the unprecedented move by the Vanuatu Council of Chiefs to acknowledge the late Grace Molisa, from the island of Ambae as a personage of high status in the cultural and political arena has elevated women high up the cultural and political ladder, is a stepping stone for women entering into the political sphere.

The only other woman to receive high chiefly status, from Paul Tahi, the Chairman to the Vanuatu National Council of Chiefs, is Ms Jenny Ligo from Ambae. Jenny is the niece of the late Grace Molisa.

As former CEO of the Vanuatu National Council of Women, Jenny was, in 2007, bestowed this prestigious status after performing a grueling pig clubbing ceremony, to commemorate her marriage to her husband, Joe Ligo. Jenny had to club eleven pigs to their death.

Jenny is the South Pacific mirror of the Hilary Clinton legacy. Not only does Ms Ligo have the support of the Chiefs, but Ambaean women are mobilizing for her candidature in the upcoming Vanuatu general election. This came only after Jenny ceremoniously clubbed another eleven pigs to their death, in order to have the right to enter the arena of politics.

Voted the “Happiest Country on the Earth” in 2006, Vanuatu people with their deep cultural and traditional societies rely on three basic elements to ensure healthy living. Namely, Romance, Adventure and the sense of Security in their Freedom of Choice.

Romance and Adventure are the easiest achievable elements, in the ‘must see’ travel adventure destination of Vanuatu. Yet there is uncertainty in the lives of today’s younger female generation with regards to the Security of Freedom of Choice.

Free education is but a dream in Vanuatu and in the absence of a government social welfare program, what little money is generated, is invested in educating the boys.

The harsh reality is, a woman’s destiny lies in her own hands. Etched deep within, is their rich cultural norms and value, yet a vast majority lack any form of qualification.

As islanders living under per day, young girls miss out on the precious opportunity to become educated. As peer pressure of the 21st Century escalates around them, young girls may find themselves in a life scarring situation. This was the case recently, when a 16 year old girl was attacked by two youths, as she was walking home from work.

The Vanuatu Labor Law prohibits underage employments. Without proper education most rural communities are ignorant of the legal ramifications.

Younger generations are demanding the right to an education and to prove that they too can become future leaders of their Lesser Developed Country. Vanuatu has one of the fastest growing birth rates in the South Pacific.

The statistics have changes little since 1999. The government admitted in late 2007 that it does not have the finances to provide free education for the country.

The terrifying consequences of this are:

· only 55.8% of Vanuatu kids will get to grade 6

· of those only 18.2% will go to high school

· 26% will never go to school at all.

YouMe Support Foundation is one of the few charities raising funds for these educationally challenged youths. This Child Trust Fund provides non-repayable high school education grants to the children of the Outer Islands. Children who will never have the opportunity to see the inside of a high school classroom.

Through her courageous performance of the pig clubbing ceremony and the acquisition of a recognized prestigious status, Jenny Ligo has become the icon of change in the lives of these far flung communities.

You can find out more about these beautiful people and this fascinating Happiest Country on Earth. You too can make a difference in their lives, through a Blue Moon Opportunity.

Through a combined effort, young girls will be safely educated and given the opportunity to take their rightful place in their emerging world.

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YouMe support foundation (http://youmesupport.org)is a charity that gives away non repayable higher education grants to geographically isolated and financially underprivileged children.

Partnering with winaresort.com (http://winaresort.com) they are giving away Seachange Lodge (http://seachangelodge.com).

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For some unknown reason, we coin phrases in each generation, to put people in their place. Or,is it to define subcultures of certain patterns of behaviour?

Mobileers were a community of early two way radio users. According to Wikipedia the Mobileers popularized the technology that birthed the mobilephone.

Permanent installations in vehicles soon gave way to the portable Bag Phones, equipped with a cigarette lighter plug. You wouldn’t recognize the huge clunky piece of equipment these phones were, compared to the dinky pocket size we carry today. But I am getting ahead of myself.

In the early 1960’s there was a youth movement that evolved into the Hippies. According to Wikipedia, Hippies were originally known as Beatniks. They were black by nature, not skin colour. Black clothing was their hallmark.They had only one message, “Danger is fun”.

Hippies were a group of people who moved into the Haight-Ashbury San Francisco area. Psychedelic rock, the sexual revolution, cultural diversity and drugs like cannabis and LSD, in order to explore alternative states of consciousness, became one of their hall marks. Flower Power symbolized their cry of ‘Make love not war’, as they gave out flowers to passers-by.

They were the frontier group of the ‘Wild West’ of our culture. We have inherited affects from them as far reaching as health food, musical festivals, through contemporary sexual concepts (free love) and the use of drugs. Many were eco-friendly and even the forerunners of the cyberspace revolution. Terms like ‘Big Brother’, or ‘The Man’, representing authority, were coined in this generation.

Today every school kid has a mobile phone, though I often wonder just who pays the bills. In the early days when mobile phones were relatively unheard of, there rose a group of Male Yuppies. These Young Urban Mobile Professionals represented the affluent young professionals of the day.

They had a particular stance that went with the title, as did most subgroups:

• One hand raised to the ear,

• Other hand protectively placed on their briefcase

• Head cocked to the side

• Eyes glazed over as they stared into the distance

• A noncommittal grimace on the face.

They were seen to eat at all the Yuppy restaurants and naturally drove a Yuppy car.

Most of us thought they just evolved. But me thinks they were the result of a very clever marketing guru.

Either way, the Yuppy generation took over from the Baby Boomers – suburban, couple of kids, mortgage and the backbone of the community. That is after the Baby Boomers had dried out and come off the Grass, introduced through the Hippy stage.

Lets not knock the Baby Boomers though. Many a prominent politician and Lord Mayor came from the later end of the Baby Boomers.

Strictly speaking the Baby Boomers may have been too long a period to be classically described as a ‘generation’, as the baby boom lasted over a post-war, 18 year period.

Why we have to try to put a name to every generation is totally beyond me. I could never work out just where I belonged, even though I contributed to the Baby Boomer period.

In Russia the Baby Boomers were called the Sputnick Generation, from their race in space. How the two became connected is totally beyond me.

It was the rise of the contraceptive pill that heralded in the end of the Baby Boomer period.

Next came the DEWKS – Double Employed With Kids. Welcome the era of Child Care. Have a child, six weeks later dump the kid in the Creche/Child Care and back to competing with your partner as to who brings home the most income.

The Yuppies had become Yappies – Frustrated Yuppies having to deal with a couple of screaming kids, now that spanking children (corporal punishment) was being put out of fashion, by the government.

Sadly this was followed by the predictable KOOPF – Kids Of One Parent Families.

Next came the DINKS – Double Income No Kids. It was fashionable now not to have kids. Why not if you could no longer discipline them?

No longer could you assume the person was with their husband/wife. It had become ‘partner’.

Dinks became more widely used than the usual generation terms. A midget wrestler, Claude Giroux took the stage name Dink. Then there were Gay and Lesbian Dinks. The water was becoming decidedly muddied.

The concern is, according to some experts, that if the trend of Dinks continues, intelligent professionals will become another dinosaur and extinct, due to the lack of not having kids and reproducing themselves.

However, gays and lesbians have also contributed to the downturn in population growth, right up to same sex marriages.

Supposedly the DEWKS and DINKS are the privileged ones who have Disposable Incomes. That which the economists say gauges the state of the economy.

Let me ask you this though, does anyone have income that can be ‘disposed of’, like polystyrene containers, paper tissues, disposable plastic bags etc. That of course is before bio-degradable became the ‘in’ thing.

Somewhere in the middle of all this we have the term Nerd. The original stereotpyical Nerd was ‘white males with glasses and braces’, according to Wikipedia. Imagine trying to get away with such gendre orientated terms today, in our new found non-gender consciousness.

Some believe Nerd, or Nurd, was originally known as ‘knurd’, which is drunk spelt backwards. In other words a nerd was a person who studied rather than partied.

With the maturing advent of Cyber Space the term Nerd has gained respectability. It is the Nerds of our world that drive Cyber Space.

Charles J. Sykes said. “Be nice to nerds. Chances are you’ll end up working for one.”

Then of course we always have the Trendys who set the pace for the next generation. The feeding grounds of the latest fashion gurus and their high paid advertising junkies.

So we keep creating new terms, putting each generation into a neat little box. But society also likes to do the ‘crab trick’ – don’t let anyone else get out of the box. Pull them back if it looks like they are escaping out of the box we are in.

If you live long enough, chances are you will be around for quite a few of the names. Or should ‘names’ be simply classed as cultural evolution?

Is it more accurately plain rebellion to the established mores – status quo?

I want to add a couple more names to the list.

The world is full of Luzas. Yet, in every generation there is a minority of Wynas, about 2%. If you have difficulty picking up what I am saying (writing) try speaking those two names out loud.

Most of us only dream of being a Wyna. What did the song say, ‘Climb every mountain, ford every stream…’?

Being a Wyna is better than being a Luza, because Wynas live ‘out of the box’. That is if the box really exists.

Wyna wants to know if you want to own a South Pacific island resort, because Wynas live ‘out of the box’. You coul help some kids who can’t help themselves, living in a cashless society.

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