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It is not a pleasant final thought, but unless there is a noticeable addition of young people in the next few years, the Ulithians will be extinct within three generations. When the Japanese took all the young men and women with them, they seriously endangered the continuation of Ulithi as a society. In peace once more, those young people may be returned; the problem may be solved by integration with peoples from nearby islands, whereby some of the family and cultural characteristics may be preserved. But it is likely that we have seen Ulithi in its last days as a separate social unit.
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