[DIRTYSECRET]

Polynesians-they’re subsidized. Boats supplying outer islands.

New Caledonia. French. Gotta be the natives unless tropical living is now lazy with development.

Modern living. What else could it be?

[Vigilanteman]

For part of my 14 years in Japan, I counted a fellow from the Marshall Islands Embassy in Tokyo among my friends. While he was grateful to America for freeing them from Japanese rule during the war, he pointed out one awful side effect.

Visiting American vessels provided canned goods so cheaply that the island nation found it economically advantageous to lease out their fishing rights and eat the cheap imported food.

That was his theory on why diabetes of the Marshall Islanders had skyrocketed.