In a Samoan house you don’t sit around while others are doing fe’aus. You always offer to help.
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Quotes and wishes: «Samoa»
Part of our culture
I’ve been known to have a good step or two. I’m half Samoan, you know, and part of our culture is singing and dancing daily.
Dwayne Johnson
Quotes and wishes: «Samoa»
Samoan taste in life
Samoan taste in life is concerned not with materialism of places or things, but with people. God, family, dignituy, and respect are highly valued.
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Samoans are like coconuts
Samoans are like coconuts. Hard on the outside, soft and sweet on the inside.
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Some people wear art
Some people hang art, some people wear it.
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Quotes and wishes: «Samoa»
That’s the fa’aSamoan way
Our parents take good care of us when we’re little. And we take good care of them when we’re older. That’s the fa’aSamoan way.
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Quotes and wishes: «Samoa»
The values embedded in our South Pacific culture
All of my Polynesian counterparts in the NFL with roots in American Samoa understand how the values embedded in our South Pacific culture - community, hard work, perseverance, respect - contribute directly to our success.
Troy Polamalu
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Three different genders
In Samoa we have three different genders, if you will - men, women and fa’afafine. It’s tradition. Don’t stare. Don’t be rude.
Lani Wendt Young
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When you marry a samoan
When you marry a samoan you marry the whole family.