These fears (held by indigenous Fijians) must not be ridiculed but understood and addressed. In the final analysis it will be counterproductive to impose democracy on people who have yet to fully understand how it will sit against everything they believe in.

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "These fears (held by indigenous Fijians) must not be ridiculed but understood and addressed. In the final analysis it will be counterproductive to impose democracy on people who have yet to fully understand how it will sit against everything they believe in." in the context of "Address to the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association conference in Nadi, 8 September 2005" to mean that wisdom is timeless.