Respect our culture

conquering us, we’ve got to set our focus on the next course of action we will take.
Our cultural heritage and diversity are sitting on a time bomb.
Our mode of change into contemporary culture has not been on a moderate status – it has gone far beyond.
An example is when everyone in the community is asked by village leaders to attend a communal meeting and singing.
Hearing that news, all youths and school age children go their way to get intoxicated with drugs and alcohol.
While singing is going on in the village, the lost tribe goes on with its boom boxes and unnecessary nuisance.
Goodness.
Where is this particular cultural group heading to?
Whose interest are they serving?
What a pity.
Sorry lost tribe, vagrants from pretender’s paradise.
The Government of the day, through National Cultural Commission, must come out of the boardroom to address this fact.
Sooner or later, PNG will lose its cultures and values.
The National Pledge is our way forward so recite and get the meaning out of it:
“We the people of Papua New Guinea
Pledge ourselves united in one nation
We pay homage to our cultural heritage
The source of our Strengths”
Come down on our knees and respect our culture.
Our status and integrity in society in terms of wealth, education, expertise, Christian values must not integrate and hinder our cultural values and the environment that blankets us.
It’s up to us as responsible Papua New Guineans.
Let’s not be pretenders in our own native land.

Lovii Komi
Matehau Village
Iufi-Iufa
Goroka