Welcome to Saipan views.

I've created a blog so that others may follow an outside view of the happenings on my old home. Saipan is a special place that holds many great memories and still holds many friends for myself. I'm glad to have spent nearly a decade calling Saipan home- I also spent about 18 month on Guam, and over two years on Palau stretched out over several years. Time moves quickly and life changes- both quickly and slowly. I've written letters to the editor in the Saipan Tribune many times in reference to many subjects that effect the CNMI. I thought it was time to let others have a bit more detail than the ST allows to understand the thoughts behind the letters, as there seems to be quite a bit of misunderstanding. The greatest misunderstanding seems to be that people believe I do not care for foreign contract workers, and the lives they are trying to make for themselves. Everyone on this planet is entitled to the best of their ability to improve the surroundings they find themselves in, and to attempt to give themselves and their children the best life they can. As a person improving your own life you must be careful to not do so by degrading others' lives. Everyone must also be careful to understand that different locations on this one planet we have may have different standards of what is acceptable, good, right, and normal. Groups of people also have shared culture and language- and they as a whole are becoming less and less in number. There are less groups of native indians in South America for example. The amount of different dialects and languages on the planet is shrinking quickly. Larger groups are pushing out the smaller groups, and whole "worlds" are dying because of this. The natives of Australia have been subjected to a terrible plight when England decided to send it's criminals to the island- the resulting subjugation was/is deplorable. The conditions and standards of living that native American indians have is also deplorable. Native hawaiians have a lesser standard of living than those people that have moved to the islands. Also the same in New Zealand. This is the larger backdrop that must color the outside view of the Marianas. More later-
William