The American Samoa
American SamoaAmerican Samoa, an unregistered area only 76. Most of the island are of vulcanic origins, with low coastlines, marginal cliffs and sandy shores where most of the towns are situated. It is estimated that the country has a 65,000 inhabitants in 2000, an estimated 69 per cent rise since 1960. The Samoan people make up 89 per cent of this total populace, Tonga people make up 3.7 per cent and whites make up about 2 per cent (mostly Americans).
On the other hand, the other 5 per cent are small sub-groups of other Pacific Island, Asian and blended inheritance groups. Since 1960, demographic growth has been driven by better healthcare and wastewater disposal, a high birth rate, lower child deaths, longer lives and migration. Samoan is part of the Austro-Hungarian speaking world.
Samoan subgroups include Samoan and the Tokelau and Tuvalu language groups. The Samoan language is used at home, but most people live in English. Fa'aSamoa, "the Samoan way", comprises settings, convictions and customs that symbolise a worldview that is divided throughout the entire Archipelago. The forefathers of today's Samoans left Southeast Asia and already in 1500 they set up their homes on an island just west of Samoa.
those humans began to move to Samoa and Tonga. The early contacts between Europeans and Samoans took place in 1722, when the vessels of Jacob Roggeveen Ta'?, the Netherlands sailor, arrived, followed by 1768 and 1787 discoverers from France. In 1839, Charles Wilkes, commandant of the United States Exploring Expedition, watched the civilization and built a lasting bond with the Samoans.
During the 1800', the well-protected harbour of Pago Pago was a favourite harbour for US warships. Zamoan traditions were conserved if they did not contradict the law of the USA. Inherited chieftains and speaking chieftains were permitted to maintain their own form of assembly for topicality. Navy officials were serving as gubernators until 1951, when the U.S. Department of the Interior took over responsibilities and the gubernators were nominated by the president.
The Samoan electorate has been electing the Samoan electorate since 1978. Indigenous Samoans are US citizens and can freely move between the two and live in both states. The Samoans are proud of their US territorial stature and do not seem interested in gaining independent control. Americans have never been large, but they have taken important roles in governments and the education system.
Several intermarriages have taken place, and Americans who become long-term inhabitants have a tendency to conform to the Samoan way of being. There has been an increasing influx of Samoan immigrants to the United States since 1951, where they have founded their own church and often cultivate a Samoan way of living. Up to the 20th centuries the way of living was rustic, and this also applies to the remote isles and most towns outside Pago Pago Bay.
Up until the 1950', traditionally called "fale", buildings were built using round wood poles and rounded corners with rounded corners and rounded corners. The US administration has been promoting the construction of specific "hurricane houses" with tin canopies since the seventies in order to minimise windstorm damages.
The furniture in old style homes consisted of minimum mattresses for seating and bedroom and little else - but some contemporary homes are fully equipped, and most have televisions and phones. Lawmaking structures are traditionally shaped in an elliptical manner, as are schools, the farmer's supermarket and parts of the farm. Today, some commercially used properties mirror the architecture of America.
False homes in the Fituita town. The meal is boiled, but can also be eaten chilled. The eldest and guest are always serviced first, whereas kids and wives often have dinner later. Tutuila's most popular restaurant specializes in U.S. and other overseas groceries, but some provide more Samoan cuisine. Customs for ceremonial events.
Dishes of the day with whole pork, potatoe lettuce, chilesuey, puddings, pies and icecream are among the dishes eaten on festive days. There is a large amount of meals available for particular occasion, and visitors are required to take a break home to divide it with their family. The Kava, a non-alcoholic, slightly anaesthetic beverage, is eaten by the chieftains on festive events.
U. Samoa is an American Samoa language. Employing 30 per cent of the labour force, the total number of workers in canning factories is 33 per cent, while the other 37 per cent are employed in services, specialist and labour posts. Approximately 56 per cent of households are living below the poor. Except for small quantities of intergovernmental and ecclesiastical properties, most of the country is in Samoan hands.
The municipal property was taken over by ' aiga' and control by ' matai'. A few white people who were intermarried with Samoan wives purchased personal property on Samoan lands before the U.S. Navy banned the sale of lands in the 1930s. However, the company was not able to sell the property to Samoans. There was a cruiser on Pago Pago. Samoa Americans are helping to stimulate the regional economies.
Single country acquisitions are now limited to individuals with at least 50 per cent Samoan blood. Tinned tuna sent to the United States makes up 94 per cent of total export. We also have a clothing sector whose produce makes up 4 per cent of export. Historically, some have had special abilities in the construction of old -fashioned ships and homes, angling and medical science.
There'?s no real classification system in American Samoa. Some of the chieftain's names are arranged according to centuries-old tradition. First and foremost this is important and defines the order of seats in La Fontana and the order in which we serve our dishes, but everyone has the same chance to do so.
Every man can strive to be a mate, since title is earned through a competitive electoral procedure by his people. Goverment. It has two legislating bodies: a Senate of eighteen Heads (matai), elected by the highest Heads of each District, and the House of Representatives, with one member from each of the twenty-one constituencies elected by referendum.
The American Samoa is substituted in the House of Representatives of the United States by a non-voting representative. Part of the administration is financed by municipal tax, but the United States provides over 60 per cent of the funds through subsidies. It is the task of the community leaders, the community leaders (fono), who are the members of the community of every family.
You become a sailor through your services to the Samoan people, your familiarity with Samoan traditions and your diplomatic, intelligent and eloquent manner. Higher office policy campaigning can include American-style demonstrations and fundraisers, and candidate governors have a tendency to relate to democratic as well as popular party leaders. Group of Samoan men prepares an earthen kiln for use.
The men were in charge of the day-to-day cuisine and the preparations for particular occasions in the Samoan cuisine. Samoa has no stagnant army. At Tutuila, the United States operates a Coast Guard and delegates personnel recruitment for various services to Pago Pago. A Samoan can enroll in the army, and it's a favorite careers opportunity.
You are leaving Samoa for practice and services. There is often an organisation of chief ladies in rural areas. The " Women's Committees " entertain important guests and collect funds for purposes such as furnishing rural hospitals and religious school. Unauthorised men in rural areas are organised in a co-operative working group named Akumaga, which has important ceremony and work-related tasks.
It' known as the "Strength of the Village," and the commander (usually the Son of a high-ranking chief) solemnly acts as the "Village Prince," the Mania. She conducts collaborative work, maintains guest entertainment, and her members act as companions to the "village ceremony princess," the True One.
The young men prepared much of the day's meal and prepared and served it at ceremonies. Much of these traditonal rolls still exist today, but new choices are important. Males work in the fields of civil engineering, transport, navigation and public authorities. Import rices are discharged into Pago Pago. Samoa is a major importer of goods, among them foodstuffs, fuels and architectural material.
Samoa has traditionally been a male-dominated city. Occupational and authoritarian posts are mostly filled by men, but in some governments and companies female employees play an important role and in some cases act as mathematicians. Formerly, high chieftain descendants would marry high chieftain descendants' daughter, and lower class pairs would often burn out.
Following the wedding, the couple either move into the bride's or groom's house, each of which is led by a mate. Every socioeconomic activity is under the supervision of Mr. Mataï, who is usually a man. A large familiy can have homes in different parts of a town or in several towns.
Within the league, the household members of this household have different tiers of power. The members of Matthai are members of the local government committee (fono), which is a regulating and decision-making organ for the town. There is a mathematician who resolves disputes within the families and makes judgments about the family's contribution to marriages, burials and religious services.
Most of the time, the whole league will interact at marriages, burials, elections, installation of matches and familial emergency. Amerikanisch Samoa provides educative programmes for preschoolers as well as general civic instruction through high schools, the budget and often through an older brother or sister. Tutuila's Samoa Community College provides associated degree courses.
Approximately seven per cent of the twenty-five and older adult populations have a bachelor's or higher education. The Samoans pay a lot of attention to politeness, especially towards older people and owners of mainly title. Respectful terminology is used when talking to chieftains. Mutual politeness and label are typical of ceremony and politics.
Prior to the missionary arrivals in 1830, Tagaloa was recognised as the island's author and its inhabitants and members of Samai held the position of spiritual guides. Initially, the Missionary Society was the London Missionary Society, named LMS by the Samoans and still used to help ID this group. Today known as the Congregational Christian Church of American Samoa, it serves fifty per cent of the populace, while the Catholic Church accounts for twenty per cent and the Mormon, Methodist and Whitsun church serves the other thirty per cent.
Samoan people are loyal worshippers and generously support church communities andastors. Except for the Catholic Church, which usually counts some Caucasians among its rulers, most confessions have Samoan faith rulers. It'?s a chieftain?s sitting in the town hall. American Samoa, the community government is the role of a counsellor composed of the chieftains or members of every community, attracting tourists from neighboring Samoa and the United States.
At the end of the day, the kids are offered food with local specialties at home. "There is still the tradition of believing that death outside one's homeland causes one's own mind to cause difficulties for those who survive. Amerikanisch Samoa is a relatively healthful place, but high blood pressure and obesity are significant public health issues. Confidence in tradtional healing (bush medicine) is restricted, especially for diseases known before the Europeans' outreach.
Flag Day is commemorated on April 17 to remember the hoisting of the US Samoa flags over US Samoa in 1900, when the island became a US destination. Among the festivities are group dance and song, speech, cricket matches and long canoe racing with about 50 oars each. As well as supporting artistic education for kids and grown-ups, the Council and the Government Museum subsidise cultural education for young people and the preservation of cultural heritage.
The oratorio is an esteemed traditional, and much of the legend, poetic and mythological survive through the use of speaking chieftains in local government debates and solemn orations. Pago Pago Bay, a one-stop shop for American Samoa merchant navigation, affiliation or Chief's Titles qualification.
Exercising this skill has long been prohibited in American Samoa, but the new interest in recent years has attracted young men to the former Western Samoa for the lavish wettoos from knees to belly. Performances are given by the rural ceremony principal ("taupou"), sometimes accompanied by males.
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