The People of Tonga -

The people of Tonga are a happy people. But they lack drive to be successful. And this is where the discussion starts. Would the Tongans be better off if they worked harder?

I see very happy people, with next to nothing, who grow their own food, are quite religious, and have good families.

Others see a lazy group of people who do the minimum to survive. So what is better? To be successful in a western sense? Or to be happy in a Tongan way?

The fact is that the driven Tongan who want western success find it quite easy to move to New Zealand or America and achieve their their own version of success. Due to this mass exodus the land is minimally developed, and many of the islands are uninhabited.

Courage