A Traveler In The Foreign Service: How To Avoid Posts Where You Might Get Eaten Alive

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8-10-2012 @ 3:54PM

Meg said...

Like the idea of this story, but thumbs down on an overly sensational and inaccurate lede. Cannibalism used to be practiced in PNG but it is no longer. I was a Peace Corps volunteer there from 90-92, and the practice had pretty much died out well before then. Keep up the good work, but please stick to the facts.

8-10-2012 @ 5:57PM

Dave Seminara said...

You're probably right, Meg. But when I thought about this incident, I remembered my colleague and his reaction and, quite honestly, a lot of people think about cannibalism when they think of PNG, fair or not. When was the last bit of flesh consumed by the tribes in remote parts of PNG? That I do not know, nor does anyone else, at least for sure.

But this isn't a story about cannibalism in PNG, it's about bidding in the Foreign Service, so I don't want to get too sidetracked by the discussion of whether there are still cannibals there or not.

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