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The Colonial Power Wanted to Be Culturally Sensitive – They ended up creating more inequality (30.10.2025)
When the Americans introduced a legal system in the Marshall Islands after World War II, they intended to take local traditions and customs into account. The result was the opposite, says social anthropologist Ola Gunhildrud Berta at the University of Bergen.