This attitude is mirrored in the increased international collaboration between Hawaiian communities, central government, and businesses and their foreign counterparts. There is less connection between people and the natural world. This inner psychic orientation has led to growing narcissism and psychic disturbances. Some now believe that all realities are their personal creations. All these trends have led to decreasing levels of interpersonal communication and interaction.
Family life is more fragmented than the century before.
Education still occurs mostly outside the home and it is more individualized given the reliance on computers and virtual reality programming for education. Cross-generation conflict is greater and the values of older people are shared less and less by younger people. Since the turn of the century the economy has improved. The cold war has become the battle to save the oceans and the planet, and U.S.-led UN forces have located their regional headquarters here. Less moral countries in need of policing still desperately look to other countries and the oceans as toxic dumping grounds.