Vanuatu is POOR COUNTRY!!! TRASH IN THE WORLD!!!..

They have their urban area and they charge you dearly for items including food.

May Loma . It was before $GOD HAD ANYTHING TO DO WITH IT.

@@gingerbread1032 I DON'T BELIEVE IN "GOD".

May Loma . Good for you because $GOD IS WORTHLESS.

Most people think BNW by Aldous Huxley is about a lot of different stuff but he was and its in the movie versions all about getting people to take bi polar meds more or less he was saying everybody was popping valium which if you don't know taking more then one is like drunk driving while sitting in a lawn chair anyway my point the novel The Island is a good story BNW isn't its anothingburger telling somebody to take bipolar meds can be a face tat

It was until colonialization

A littel inside ; Vanuatu was Colonized by both England and France, at the same time . We know our history ,Know that our ancestors were,soled into slavery, Poisoned , raped and Killed for their lands ,and we're a young nation , so our history very recently for us . After our independence from the 2 colonizers . We chose Our nation name Vanuatu meaning "our land" instead of trying to correct the wrongs of the past and live backwards in hate and unforgivenness towards our oppressors . We want to live forward in Hope and Happiness of the Blessing that is this small Isalnd Nation ,which is Home.,🤗✨️ 🌴

Apart from it is a capitalist country. Good job.

lol. you people really have no idea what capitalism is.

You'll probably change your mind when know about the politicians

Or maybe a ton of gold mining like Papua that's been consistently exploited by Indonesia? Lol

@@judyclarkson5887 American company own the gold mine in papua for over 50 years.. indonesia take it over just last year .. maybe thats why there is suddenly separate movement in papua..🤔

@@Blue-yp5mz another absentees of the history? Lol. It was Soeharto who made a deal to American company (named freeport) to exploit that mining. And it was definitely one of the biggest trigger, that new york agreement which basically gave Indonesia the rights to occupy Papua happened. After all, it's all about business. And i think from such a case that infamous theory of 'resources curse' is simply true. Vanuatu can be this free and live their own philosophy of life bcos they have no resources like Papua has. That no big & greedy country like Indonesia, USA, or China feels the need to occupy & possess their life.

@@judyclarkson5887 but still, America get most of the gold.. Even if papua seperate from indonesia, other country will come and control their resources, just like timor leste, now they're contrlolled by Australia and Portugal..

@@Blue-yp5mz typical defensive answer,, *but still* lol. My point is, it was never morally right, that Papua was 'handed' to Indonesia by US over the possible return that US can grab & exploit the gold & copper mining there at Papua in the future, *that was clearly & directly facilitated by the Indonesia's government.* Not to say the whole process in that referendum that was so full of manipulations which was done by the famous psycho & tyrant leader named Soeharto and its chronies. From those 2 premises alone,, i can understand why Papuans keep asking for their rights to determine their own fate. To be or not to be an independent nation. Since the process was never done even at the slightest sense of fairness at all, hence the result of that referendum has always been a defective one and can never restore the justice for the native people there in the Papua. Unless the current government is willing to swallow their pride and ask for a sorry to the whole Papuans people, for all the bitter history that has happened in the past and must've been hurting all the Papuans hearts & dignity. I applause the attentions that the current government gives to Papua and its people, but until the solution can reach its roots of problems, which is the country's recognition of such a bitter history, and start to seeing Papua's issue from Papuans point of views instead of Jakarta's, this issue of separatisms in Papua will always happen & happen again. No matter how much the governemnt tries to rain them with money & infrastructures. Bcos it's not the main problems there.

No individual owns the land there. It’s common tribal land

Manus actually want materialism its like saying people don't want Walmart

@Mathius S They retreated bkwrds is why

That's mean Vanuatu people happiness is in pure, simple life and uncontaminated from the tourists or TV or wifi from the outside world. Samoa life has a lot modern electric stuffs ESP TV. That's why living in similar environment but thinking different because of TV media influence.

I'm currently in Vanuatu but was in Samoa a couple of weeks ago. Like Vanuatu, Samoa has a strong and distinctive culture with strong communitarian traits but, unlike Vanuatu, I felt the local Samoans don't value what they have as much as the Ni-Vans. It's a pity because I'm sure the traditional Samoan lifestyle is much healthier than the Western one. The Vanuatu people have a surprisingly strong sense of their identity and self-confidence. I hope Samoan people can find the self-respect that they deserve.

The main languages of Vanuatu are French, English and Bislama (an English creole). Nowhere escaped colonisation.

Usually islanders are happier because they are isolated. But just think about the European continent. So many tribes fighting for thousands of years

They have government.

@@bremCZ their govt is USA and Australian Dolls

@@diazutube Nonsense

@@bremCZ made sense after all in how their govt support separatism in West Papua out of the blue

@@diazutube So did almost all pacific nations. It was spoken about during the Pacific Island Forum.

They own the land commonly/tribally, not individually

consumerism which is part of capitalism is the root cause of all the unhappiness in this modern era

Lmao we are not living under a rock ... it's the 21st century

Sam salting heme blo nasara blo yumi nomo ,no blo fulwol ,yumi be the change no mekem problem bigwan . Solution no focus long ol manya tumas . Mi respectfuly askem blom ka5 wan difren perspective nomo .ta✨️

@Snowstorm why did you mention muslim countries man they are the worst no wonder they are wastelands with nothing in them

Title says "ONE" of the happiest places on earth. And it's not about wealth, but compassion and finding what makes things work in everyone's favor. Rather than just the rich

@@jaxthewolf4572 true but if you google the ranking you wont even see Vanatu at top 20. They are mostly developed western countries. If you are saying it is not about wealth then these happiness rankings should not exist at all because of their biasness.

Google "Cargo Cult"

The pacific islands are some of the most Christian countries in the world. Vanuatu is 80% Christian.

They literally tell us it's because they don't rely on *money*

Mate Vanuatu is already the Victim of China

China is there, big time. Built a 1km-long wharf, put Vanuatu in debt for it for hundreds of millions. Now Vanuatu pays up ... in hard cash.

What about the other small countries?

I'd trade 10 years of geezer home for the life of happiness they live

I bet they get more out of life though

@@tgbluewolf child mortality 10 times more...I think those babies would rather to give it a go too, but hey each time it’s own

@@rezzob No, that I would fix as well...too bad the rest of the world refuses babies a chance with abortion 😕

Can still be a happy place you know

beatles?

You see, if you lived in their community, it would not occur to you to formulate such questions ! They do not know the pathology of the so-called civilized people who have run out of time :-)

They can make plants into a cure for anything. They don't need pharmacies, psychiatrists and psychologists.

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