This is a story about two men who lived in caves on the same island but on the opposite side of each other. They never saw each other and never crossed passed and so each thought that they were alone. One was named Beriber and he was a fisherman and the other man was Emaredong who collected sap or nectar and made honey. Each morning they would wake up and go out to work and would come home at night when it was dark so they never saw each other. One day Beriber decided to expand the cave that he lives in and so he started to dig. Emaredong on the opposite side of the island had also decided to expand his cave and so he began to dig as well. Suddenly the wall broke startling Beriber, he looked up and saw Emaredong and exclaimed, "You live on the other side and here I am thinking that I live by myself so I've been throwing soup away." As he said that Emaredong said, "And I thought I was by myself so I've been throwing away honey." After this, they started being and acting like real neighbors visiting each other and sharing food with each other.

So the moral of the story is pretty much just like the "love your neighbor" in the bible, you visit each other and help each other out when one is in need of help, you share whatever you have with them a vice versa. 

I am not sure how other cultures and other people are with their neighbors but back home in Palau, this is what we do. We visit each other and we help each other out, we clean each other yards, borrow your car, ask for salt or fish or taro, we babysit their kids, and vice versa. It is more than just being a good neighbor because most of the time they are family and that doesn't always mean blood. This was one of those things that when I first moved to Hawaii was an adjustment for me because back home all my neighbor are actually family and so that meant friends, help, fun, I don't like the food in my house I can go to my neighbor's house and see what they're having fr lunch or dinner and you're not worried if you get turned down or shot and killed. But I also understand that it is not the same everywhere.