{"id":32052,"date":"2023-03-26T00:38:15","date_gmt":"2023-03-26T07:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/?p=32052"},"modified":"2023-03-26T00:38:15","modified_gmt":"2023-03-26T07:38:15","slug":"misinformed-is-costly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/misinformed-is-costly\/","title":{"rendered":"Misinformed is Costly."},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cWhy We\u2019re Wrong About Nearly Everything: A Theory of Human Misunderstanding,\u201d<\/em> by Bobby Duffy, reminded us how much we needed to look to each other for guidance and at the same time to be vigilant about seeking what matter most. And not only that but the truth may never be the common knowledge or what the public opinion is [1].<\/p>\n

In probably all of the Pacific Islands\u2019 cultures, traditions, values and history were handed down to generations through storytelling. I know for sure in Micronesian Islands, that is where I was raised, this is how we learned our history, our traditions and our values. When we were growing up, we listen as our grandmothers tell stories that taught us to love and to protect our families. As we become teenagers, we the young men gathered around the elders and listened as they impart on us pointers on fishing and farming. In the earlier days, the elders also taught the younger men the art of navigation by using the stars at night and the waves by day. They taught them about each of the essential stars and their locations with respect to our Islands, so we could know our bearing. Not only that but the waves and the current as well with respect to their location around our islands. This practice of handing down cultural values through seemed to disappear as our interests shifted to outside cultures.<\/p>\n

It was in the 1980s that the border of the United States of America is opened to the Micronesian citizens. There was an agreement between the United States of America and the Federated States of Micronesia that is called, \u201cthe Compact of Free Association [2.],\u201d which allows the Micronesian citizens the privilege of coming to the U.S. to reside, to work, and to enroll in U.S. schools. In exchange for this, the United States Military is given the authority and responsibility in the security and defense relations, which is in the section three of this agreement, the Compact of Free Association.<\/p>\n

As the migration of the Micronesian citizens started until today, there are probably several thousands of them living within the jurisdictions and border of the United States of America. This dispersion of Micronesian citizens increased as they came to seek \u201cbetter lives\u201d to finding better jobs, better healthcare, and better schools for themselves and their children. They scattered from U.S. Territories of the Marianas Islands to the State of Hawaii and now to the rest of the states in the mainland U.S.<\/p>\n

And today, these people of the Micronesia are facing challenges and issues as they tried to assimilate into or fit into this new culture and learn the practices that is acceptable to be able to become part of these communities that they are now residing within. As the come into these new cultures, they brought their culture from their Islands with them as well. The greatest among their challenges now how they can make it into one, their native culture and the new culture that they are now become part of it.<\/p>\n

So these days, one of the other issues that they are currently facing is managing this information that they are bombarded with every day, or shall I say every minute through the media, or just everywhere you look. Almost every minute, we receive ad or news on cell phones. They are either text to us or send to us to our email, sometimes, we even get calls. This new culture is so saturated with information unlike their previous culture in which the only information given are the ones that are necessary for basic living. For example, during the beginning of the COVID-19, there are many Micronesians that refused to take the vaccination because they read and heard from the media that the vaccination is from the anti-christ. The said that the media said it is the mark of the beast [2.].<\/p>\n

The last time I ask my mother to get the vaccination, she replied, \u201cI would rather die and be with Jesus, than take the vaccination, and live, and be with the anti-christ.\u201d She was a devoted Christian. She passed on to be with the Lord one week before her 76th<\/sup> birthday. This is one of the challenges, the leaders of our Micronesian community are faced with. How do we educated our people that not all the information that are given are accurate. Moreover, how do we filter the information so we only accept those that are necessary as guidance for daily living and to filter out those that would lead us down the wrong path.<\/p>\n

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Footnote:<\/p>\n

[1.] Duffy, Bobby. \u201cWhy We\u2019re Wrong About Nearly Everything: A Theory of Human Misunderstanding,\u201d<\/p>\n

[2.] The Compact of Free Association between the United Stats and the Federated States of Micronesia. https:\/\/www.doi.gov\/oia\/compacts-of-free-association<\/a>.<\/p>\n

[3.] Some say COVID-19 vaccine is the \u2018mark of the beast.\u2019 Is there a connection to the Bible? https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation\/2021\/09\/26\/covid-vaccine-mark-beast-what-book-revelation-says\/8255268002\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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