The BBC “Meads” Anuta’s Noble Savages.
Awww. The BBC Meads Anuta, where “Harmony thrives in Pacific Isolation“. I can’t believe we’re seeing “Noble Savage” rhetoric in 2008.
When I asked Joseph what the biggest changes have been in the last 20 years he said “young people playing ukuleles”.
Was this a problem? I asked rather jokingly.
“Well,” he replied more seriously, “before the ukuleles the younger generation would dance every evening. Now it is rare.”
I got the same response from at least half a dozen other adults.
As trivial as this sounds it does make one think about our own, supposedly advanced, society.
We worry about our children getting in with the wrong crowd, taking drugs, drinking, teenage knife crime. Anutans worry about their kids playing homemade ukuleles.
Posted on 
July 28th, 2008 by 
Simon Greenhill
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