Jesus Taisague\u2019s letter in the Saipan Tribune, June 23, is 95 percent spot on. I love Chamorro culture. It\u2019s the inflexibility of Chamorro traditions that are at the heart of what Mr. Taisague so correctly points out. Its \u201cmy family first, last, and only\u201d after \u201cwe\u201d (the Tenorios, Camachos, Sablans, Aldans or whatever tribe you belong to) is set up as \u201cking of the hill\u201d do you start including other \u201ctribes,\u201d all Chamorro of course. <\/p>\n
I just want to say here that Carolinians, other islanders, Filipinos, haoles, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Bangladeshis, Indians and other \u201cinterlopers\u201d are, at best, considered a nuisance to most Chamorros over 50 for some reason, even though 20 percent or so of you are married to someone in these nuisance groups. The under-25 Chamorros don\u2019t seem to share their elders\u2019 prejudices though and that\u2019s good. <\/p>\n
Tradition or no tradition, Article 12 is not necessary in 2014. Go to the courthouse and look at the property transfer records for the last 15 years. The same names keep coming up, sometimes monthly. No one screws a people like their own people. Do you really believe that Chamorros and Carolinians are incapable of handling their own affairs in 2014? That\u2019s sad. So, while I totally agree with you that it was greed, corruption, family jealousies, and the incompetent nincompoops the Chamorros kept electing that let all these opportunities slip by, I still don\u2019t think Article 12 is necessary, needed, or even wanted by the younger Chamorros in 2014. You obviously grew up during the \u201cshudupboyislapu\u201d age. No backtalk, no discussion, no trying to understand the younger generation; just obey me, boy, end of discussion. <\/p>\n
Do you really think a 14-year-old today just loves to go to a novena, christening, baptismal, 1-year-old birthday party or other \u201cevent\u201d every night of the week? If you do it\u2019s because the older generation doesn\u2019t know how to talk \u201cto\u201d kids; they only know how to talk at or down to them. It\u2019s 2014 and your grandkids are not like you were. Sorry! <\/p>\n
PSS is half the problem, inflexible old people are the other half. Ask a 17-year-old to explain the difference between \u201cculture\u201d and \u201ctradition\u201d and listen to all the answers you get, if they even have one. Your FB page is almost blank but I notice you were at PSS. I friended you and hope you will accept because I have 2014 solutions to the mess at PSS I would like to share with you, and anyone else that is interested. <\/p>\n
Gary DuBrall<\/strong> Jesus Taisague\u2019s letter in the Saipan Tribune, June 23, is 95 percent spot on. I…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[241,223,67,40],"class_list":["post-39587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters-to-the-editor","tag-article-12","tag-party","tag-people","tag-pss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nChalan Piao, Saipan<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"