John Frum Movement Reflection Paper

Most problems happening today as a result of colonialism. That is colonial powers has created some of the challenges we are experiencing today. The introduction of Religion, Colonialism and its development are examples of wave of power that leads to form some of the resistance movement. The resistance movement are progressively and of various forms in the Pacific. Some of the waves of powers include Explorers, Beachcombers, Whalers, Traders, blackbirder’s and Missionaries. Christianity was a form of power which changed most islands thus enabled an entry requirement for other developments. This reflection writing will reflect on the impact of missionaries which leads to the formation of the John Frum Movement in Vanuatu. It will explain what the movement teaches us about power relations and the people involved.
Missionaries taking Christianity to Vanuatu during the 1700s and other religion to other countries is a form of power which aims to spread Christianity by changing the lives of the natives and preaching the true gospel of God (Ridgell, 2002). According …show more content…
According to the movement of John Frum movement, I can say that it teaches us about the native power to prevent the culture identity, otherwise if such action is not display, then the culture identity can be fade away. For example, the John Frum movement has set up to prevent the dying of traditional values, such as drinking of kava. The people involved during this movement is the native people and the missionaries. The native people has decide to join the John Frum movement in order to prevent the dying of culture, for if such action is not taken, the missionaries can affect the traditional value and so we lose our identity. For example, as the missionaries implement the Tanna law, drinking of kava is forbidden, once it is forbidden, then we can lose our identity since kava is value in our