Palauan Language Online: Palau Language Proverbs Quiz

Palau Language Proverbs Quiz

QUESTION 1:

Please choose the corrective figurative meaning for this proverb:

Creditors seldom ask a rich man to repay a debt. Only when a man has lost all his money do they come asking.
Marriage within the clan, generally considered incestuous, limits the value of the food-money exchange, since the materials simply change hands within the same clan group. A man so married is criticized as having destroyed his source of wealth.
A man with a "short arm" is miserly.
In a sense this is a response to "Fire brand politics," but it appears to be a fully developed technique none the less. It involves responding to anger with quiet calm and kind words. If it has a character of its own it would be called compromise. Buying the opponent off is approved. J. Useem names this strategy, but was perhaps unaware of the wider significance, For him the phrase pertained to "a small time official who use his authority for his own benefit but shrewdly avoids being detected by superiors." I think that most Palauan political leaders would agree that any political tactitian,knowingly using the strategy of his training, would expect to accomplish as much.
You don't know what to do because chores keep coming in from left and right.

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