Papalangji--An Opinion Letter from an Aboriginal Chief on Modern Civilized Life: An Opinion Letter from an Aboriginal Chief on Modern Civilized Life

Author: Soileman
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Publish Date: 2004-04-01
Features: Papalanghi was first published in 1920 and was forgotten after several editions. In the 1960s and 1970s, university movements rose in Europe, and the true value of Papalanghi was finally discovered, hailed as the "green Bible of environmentalists." Since then, this small book has been translated into many languages and sold worldwide. Only the German edition has sold over 1.7 million copies, and the book has been reprinted 78 times in its original language, with global sales exceeding 17 million copies. Papalanghi refers to whites and strangers. The original meaning of Papalanghi is "one who pierces the blue sky." The first white missionaries who landed in Samoa came by sailboat. The indigenous people saw the distant white sailboat as a hole in the blue sky and believed that the whites had come to their side by piercing this hole—they pierced the blue sky. Would you rather freely enjoy the life of sunshine, blue sky, white clouds, sea, forests, and flowers, or would you rather run and work in stone boxes, gaps, filth, noise, smoke, and sand?