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What is culture anyway? Bacteria grow in it. Anything made by man and depicted on a map is referred to as culture. I think it’s safe to state that people think of the word in terms of past traditions and a desire to maintain them. Some people want to “freeze” a tradition as it existed somewhere in time and often recounted by grandparents while believing it to be something to protect and preserve against all attempts to introduce change. This frequently takes place through legends, song and dance and it’s good that it’s done.Today’s young students will one day think back on the classroom culture of today’s computer lab and wonder how anything could be accomplished on such primitive machines. So culture changes along with one’s mindset and the march of time. The dictionary defines “culture” terminology as the following: “the development and refinement of mind, morals or taste. The condition therefore produced; refinement. The specific stage in the development of a civilization and the sum total of the attainment and learned behavior patterns of any specific period, race, or people.” Nehru once said, “Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.” Matthew Arnold in the Preface to Literature and Dogma wrote: “Culture – the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world.” Selected tools for cultural enrichment are: education, exposure, travel, language, etc. Opportunities for such enrichment can be experienced in: museums, libraries, zoos, universities, lectures, theaters, concerts, ethnic customs, cuisine, religions, observatories, planetariums and other people, places and things and, of course, profuse oratory contests, (of which American politicians and some writers exhibit an abundant measure). Do people confuse “culture” with “traditions” or are they one and the same?One of the problems of assimilation into the “American culture” – what ever that may be – is that you probably have to be in the country for the process to take effect. For a new immigrant savoring the essence of liberty, a metamorphosis takes place. I have yet to meet one who was not extremely proud of his new citizenship. People who immigrate to the United States and are physically present in the environment are exposed to all manner of influences both positive and negative within the American scene. Some try to resist the erosion and dilution of the ways of the “old county” but the process soon catches up with them – just inquire about the effect on their children. One thing about America is the freedom permitted to try to compete at being the best of anything you can be. Regardless of what the endeavor might be: basketball, singing or pickling prunes – if you reach the top of your field in America – you are probably the best in the world. That’s American culture.Americans freely elect the most powerful man in the world as their leader and then verbally attack him with impunity. The culture of America is freedom and liberty and the tool is citizenship: the right to criticize; the right to hold unpopular beliefs; the right to protest; the right of independent thought. That’s why so many people want to stay in the Northern Marianas after their work contracts expire and choose to remain illegally. Same reason the Mexican entering the border illegally. That’s one reason why U.S. and CNMI immigration officials now have – and always will have – a problem. How did this come about? It’s America’s fault – America is to blame with its culture of freedom – that “mental narcotic” of the spirit that all people seek – independence. How did it happen in the Northern Marianas, an area dominated for more than 400 years by the Spanish, Germans and Japanese colonialists before finally exercising their own free will in choosing their own destiny? A destiny sanctioned and encouraged by the United States. Here’s how.At the conclusion of the Second World War the United States, not desiring to appear as having annexed the islands by virtue of “victor’s rights”, placed the islands under the supervision of the Security Council of the newly formed United Nations. For a nation to acquire additional territory, a government must either annex an area by force of arms or by purchase from a sovereign government. The Northern Marianas was not a permanent legal possession of Japan at the time of the war as it had only been entrusted to Japan under a mandate by a group of countries through their organization – the League of Nations. Therefore, the United States could not strip territory from defeated Japan at the conclusion of hostilities since the islands were never recognized as a permanent legal possession of Japan. You can’t take something from someone if you recognize that they didn’t own it in the first place and the United States did not recognize Japanese sovereignty over the islands.There may still be some people within the Northern Marianas unfamiliar with the obligations and responsibilities that are inherent in U. S. citizenship, an honor bestowed upon the islanders by Presidential Order. Unlike other nationalities seeking U. S. citizenship, the people of the Northern Marianas were not required to possess any knowledge of American history or appreciation of the principles of democracy as most Americans perceive them to be. Most foreigners seeking U. S. citizenship must study a variety of subjects related to American history pass an examination and swear an oath of allegiance. This was not required of the people of the Northern Marianas. Nor during the period did the Trust Territory Government conduct comprehensive educational programs for self government. Civics and the duties of citizenship were not taught in the public schools.To have done so during the period of the early seventies when political preferences were being explored – and to have openly advocated U. S. Commonwealth status from among the other options available to the people of the Northern Marianas, namely, maintaining the status quo and remaining a Trust Territory, independence or free association with the United States – would have raised the ire of the English, French and Soviet delegates to the United Nations and precipitate a charge of colonialism against the United States. The political education program, what there was of it, had to be impartial. So, in the early years, this may have resulted in an educational deficiency among some in the Commonwealth as to the history of American democracy and, indeed, an appreciation of the uniqueness of the Northern Marianas within the American political family.No other United States territory or insular possession has a similar relationship. Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam and other Pacific possessions were all acquired under circumstances far different than that of the Northern Marianas. A lot of blood and treasure has been paid to preserve American freedom. 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