Then, I moved to Guam for school. My first week on Guam, while going to the bookstore for textbooks, that guy that works there said something about Saipan to me so dismissively that made me SO ANGRY I cried in the bathroom to my mom on the phone. I experienced it again and again.
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A professor who had lived on Saipan for a number of years & taught at NMC joked to our entire class that we did things that in reality we did not do. Hadn't even heard of the crap she said. I was perpetually angry on Guam. I felt invalidated by a whole Americanized population.
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We have to understand that the beliefs about different islands given by people who have "been there" but not LIVED there, or who haven't even been there, are false and falsely passed down, seemingly harmlessly to others, but they come at a price. Don't perpetuate this crap.
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What you can do is when someone says a "joke" if it's a person you can correct, do so. "I know you think that's funny but I don't think that's how it is" goes a long way. For someone you can't correct, don't even laugh. Don't even look at them. Pay no mind to their tiny mind.
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We can be better than all of this. All the inter-island hate is baggage passed down through generations from colonizers, we weren't meant to be separated like this but here we are. Can we grow from it? Can we achieve a higher mentality than that same old tired "I'm better" crap?
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Really, "better" is a subjective term. What's best to one person is different from another. Understand this. By all means, uplift your own place, but don't do it by bringing others down. This isn't first grade. All the places in the world have their own unique allure.
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