I was on the shoyoroll forums today doing my regular maintenance on the site when a member placed a link to a article on espn.com which covered one of Guam’s cockfighting events. Its always good to see Guam mentioned on a big name website like ESPN so I spent a few minutes reading the article. It was the typical thoughts of an American man. Our island is small, they have little to do, entertainment is limited, blah blah blah. I was fine with that.

There was a line that bothered me though. It really struck a nerve.

Guam, though, is not exactly Manhattan (23 percent live below the poverty line), and the crowd was not exactly the upper crust of the population. They say if an American man walks through a particular poor village in Guam, families will offer their daughters.

I tell you this much. I have nothing against Howlies (americans) visiting the island. I myself am very proud to be an American citizen and I thank them for preserving many freedoms that we have today. But if an American man walked through a poor village on the island, he would not be walking away with one of the local ladies. He’d be running home with two black eyes and broken bones for even thinking about trying to flirt with one of them. The Chamorros (locals) are a proud people. I dont know any Chamorro man who would offer their daughter to a howlie boi on the sole reason of money….

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