Title: Social Change and Psychosocial Adaptation in the Pacific Islands Author: Anthony J. Marsella (Editor); Ayda Aukahi Austin (Editor); Bruce Grant (Editor) ISBN: 978-1-4419-3600-4
Use the text to answer the questions below, must have a paragraph per question.
1. Identify and discuss the “old” problems facing Pacific Islanders. What are the “new” problems being faced in the region? 2. How did Colonialism and European contact influence both the old and new problems in the Pacific Islands? Provide examples and discuss. 3. How has the Western concept of “individual ownership” of property influence traditional communal concepts of ownership the Pacific Island societies? Provide examples and discuss. 4. Discuss the grafting of Western-style political and economic systems on traditional Pacific Island societies. How has this change affected the harmony and stability of those societies? Provide examples and discuss. 5. Explain the dynamics of cultural trauma in the Pacific region. Provide examples and discuss.
