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One wonders whether the ethnic categorization effort at finding solutions to problems that cross ethnic boundaries. Poverty is poverty is poverty. It does not have peculiar ethnic characteristics.

— Joni Madraiwiwi

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There will necessarily be a tension between the church and tradition on one hand and human rights on the other.

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