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Among the French territories, Futuna seems to be the last bastion where custom and tradition are still holding out against multiculturalism and modernity. Does this distinctiveness represent a handicap or rather an advantage ? Having become progressively bicultural since the opening of the three structuring public services that are its colleges, hospital and television, Futuna dodges the evils of the modern world. That is how, according to western criteria, there are neither poor nor homeless people there. Futuna is therefore doing well by its isolation and biculturalism, since with every generation many young people emigrate to the multicultural Caledonian or metropolitan melting pots.