Looking for the real happiness : An educational program with the island of stone money, Yap, Micronesia over 20 years
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We have organized a youth cultural exchange program in a small island called Yap in Federated States of Micronesia since 1992. Every year, around 10 Japanese young people, sometime nearly 30, stayed in a small village trying to live very close to the nature as the locals do. They include elementary school children, persons in their early 20s, and occasionally foreign youth such as from Denmark and others. Without any piped water systems, electricity, and gas stoves, they learn the way of life from the locals. They weave sleeping mats with coconut fronds, bui ld fire with coconuts husks, and catch fishes carefully observing the tidal change; eat, discharge, and sleep. Through such very simple way of life, they recognize that the local people have created their own society and culture in harmony with the natural rhythm, and the young people understand how their own lives are supported, too. They begin to sense that convenience in cities, like instantaneous brightness with a single click of an electronic switch, is not directly connected to the real happiness. In the meantime, they also start to notice globalization is shaking the foundation of the society in Yap. An island as an isolated space is an ideal place to see the harmony and confusion of human–nature relationship directly. Among the yappese children who came to Japan by our invitation whom observed very dirty seawater in Tokyo Bay, one girl became strongly interested in the environment and later became a director of the environmental protection agency in the Yap state government. A small island invites individuals to think about life itself and is a learning space for the sustainability of the globe itself.
- 2011-06-00
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