There was one teacher who said that success is dependent on what makes each individual happy. However, the rest agreed on some level with the principal. Penang teaches its students that to be a successful adult, one must find a good job and that is often dependent on a degree. To attain a degree, one must score well on exams and do well in the Foundation form. This ideal taught at Penang is not very different from a Western ideal of success.
Money is the basis of happiness and success.
Fiji is modeling itself after the western countries that are considered successful. The United States is one of the wealthiest and most successful countries in the world, and its success model is that to be happy, you need money. The U.S. is a country where one can not rely on family and plantations to the extent that Fijians can. Money in the U.S. is more available and more accessible. Fijians who are modeling their ideals of success after countries like the U.S. are not recognizing the differences of the countries that make a place like the U.S. able to center lives around money.