A Le Ko Kau Forum

The following post was taken from the comment section of this post:  ”Diaz blasts Palau 2012 Facebook Group“, and which I took the liberty of making it a separate post of its own. —- 

Response to “Diaz blasts Palau 2012 Facebook Group” and Comments to “Palau 2012” Group

Richard Salvador
08 December 2001

Sometime back, I was invited by someone to join “Palau 2012” Facebook group. I have never been on Facebook and probably never will. I once listened to a radio interview where someone who was researching social media and open intelligence gathering was describing how some agencies of the US Government was using Facebook to spy on people. I vowed I would never join Facebook.

By Richard Salvador —-

Alii Villager, Ngirchoteot

You ask me two questions; I summarize them in my words below so that I can best respond to them:

[Question #1] – Why do you think the writers of the first Constitution give primacy to the English language not the Belau language in our Constitution? And do you think it’s time that we change this and elevate the Belau language as our primary language including translating all official deliberations and documents of our government into our Belau language.

President Toribiong’s UN speech “overrated”? Check out a new blog from Richard Salvador for his take.

Here it is at Oceania Cross Currents.

I originally was going to publish the above titled article by Mr. Salvador’s on its entirety right here on this page, instead I thought I send A Le Ko Kau’s readers to the article by introducing his new blogpage.

There are other posts now up at the site so make it a point to stop and check it out.

Richard Salvador

The other night I went to attend a presentation at a local law firm by a local psychologist. She was describing hers and her organization’s work in war-torn developing nations. They do psychological therapeutic work with war and genocide survivors in these nations. I ran into someone I know from the local university, we engaged in some related discussions about people’s enduring abilities to emerge from the most traumatic experiences of war, and conflict, with assistance, of course, from the local pool of resources, their societal and cultural institutions, and whatever else was available in their local environments. The university person told me that she had just returned from a very nice and eye-opening two-week trip to Belau.