I adore you! You are so bright and curious and congenial. You are a pearl anthropologist! You study the culture surrounding these wonderful pearls as well as the pearls themselves. (I am a trained anthropologist, if not a lifetime professional one)
Your posts makes me want to award you the Pearlitzer Prize for best reporting on natural pearls! Too bad we don't have them.....you really deserve it. I guess all I can do is give you reputation points.
Now, why don't you go to one of those colleges and tell them to work up a course or a major in Pearlography and Pearl Farming. We have a
member on this site who majored in Oceanography in a small private college in Guaymas and now he and two classmates have a pearl farm on the site of the now defunct college.
So it could be an Oceanography or even Biology degree with a specialty in modern day pearl farming. If they don't have the oceanography degree already, they need to start one. At least they could teach an anthropology or humanities course in the history of pearl farming, the human cultures and literature such as pearling songs surrounding it, with present day prospects included. (my dad started the first course in Southwest Literature (SW USA) and now our local U has has an entire major in a Southwest Studies department with bio and anthro classes and other cross major courses included)
Maybe the college or University could start a pearl farm with some of the biologists they must turn out. Two years of work and study gets them a MS degree and who knows maybe even more work on the farm gets them the world's first Doctorate in Pearlography and subsidies for another pearl farm startup.
I am really tripping on this idea. Who better than Dubai to do it? They could use some state subsidized pearl farms out there. At least as a heritage project, if not a business one. (Do I see another degree in the natural pearl business and distribution end?)
Anyway, if anyone can do that, I am sure you can.
