Sunday, April 10, 2011

Samoa


  • In Samoa, young men are in charge of the food- including the gathering and the cooking.
  • Samoans are known throughout Polynesia as the "happy people" because of their enjoyment of life and their good-spirited nature.
  • In Samoa, it is acceptable for a family who has too many sons, to raise the youngest boy as a daughter. He is known as a fa’afafine and is given a girl’s name and wears feminine clothing… and is even allowed to use the ladies bathroom.
  • Canned tuna is Samoa's most important manufactured export.
  • Samoa is slightly smaller that Rhode Island.
  • In Samoa, you still find lots of traditional healers, usually specialized in a certain illness or problem. You have bone healers, back healers, spiritual healers, skin healers and many more.

8 comments:

  1. those were cool facts

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  2. do any of them have to do with phsical characteristics

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  3. i'll show you physical characteristics (:{D)

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  4. the 3rd dot point is weird

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  5. Those were very nice facts and I especially did not know about the fa'afafine part!!! :):D

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    1. Thanks for the cool FUN and INTERESTING FACTS

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  6. i loveeeeee samoa my brother's samoen and me and him listen to j. boog every secong of the day! check him out!! my favorite samoen reggea is j. boog :) ~ lets do it again

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  7. lol that on dot point about the guys being girls is gay

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