I APOLOGIZE for apparently missing some important cultural nuances in my quest to unravel what some believe to be the most important issue facing us on Guam today.
I refer to the political status question.
I recently heard one of the more rabid activists again bemoaning the absence of discernible forward movement on the issue.
Before I can properly evaluate what members of the Chamorro Nation and other like-minded persons like to refer to as obstruction of their pursuit of the self-determination/different political status chimera, I must pose some pointed questions:
• Is not the resolution of the political status question (a political status “plebiscite”) within the purview of local elected officials?
• Are not virtually all of those elected officials members of the dominant local ethnic and political group: namely, Chamorro?
• Were not those officials elected primarily by the same dominant ethnic and political group: again, Chamorros?
• What’s the problem?

DAVE DAVIS
Yigo, Guam