Photo: Tahiti, French Polynesia
Photo: Workers carry a couple to land in Tahiti
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Photograph by Jodi Cobb
With strong arms and obliging souls, Tahitians usher ashore French vacationers after a lagoon cruise on an outrigger canoe. But hospitality has turned to hostility among many islanders for whom the burdens of French rule outweigh the blessings.

—From "French Polynesia: Charting a New Course," June 1997, National Geographic magazine
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