Immediately after we ask them to name islands of the Pacific, some can mention three, some four, and those more curious may arrive at six, including, of course, Saipan and Hawaii.
 
As anthropologists, we are interested in those silences. When young people on Guam know more about the Pilgrim Fathers than about traditional navigation in Micronesia or the location of Tuvalu, we understand that something is not right.