As a harmonious population, Pacific islanders have been relatively helpless, facing the sheer force and controlling influence of the outside new world economic order. Military presence, nuclear explosions, financial models, western rules, values, and models have annihilated and replaced our traditional cultural environment and economic sectors with foreign ones. And our previously abundant societies fell into poverty. We changed our ways to fit the West’s. Then we started to feel pain imposed by all those development aid conditions: new government principals, structural adjustment plans ＆ implementations, budgetary rigor, economic liberalization, privatization, deregulation of our very small markets, reorientation of public spending (e.g., away from health or education, for example) towards more productive sectors (e.g., subsidizing big companies and creating low wage jobs).