Word: samoan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more relaxed," says John Enright, American Samoa's Folk Arts Coordinator. "Over here they're more uptight. There's always a fear that they're losing their traditions, or that they won't get things quite right. I think of this island as a kind of retail store of Samoan traditions, with Western Samoa as the warehouse...
Polsky: "Well, there's clearly good money to be had. Five years ago, I would have considered it, but these days the professional quoting tour is just too darn political. They've already threatened to revoke my Western Samoan dual citizenship...
...made all our clothes for years, until my parents discovered the Salvation Army. We were really poor. We didn't have a TV or a telephone until the late '50s. We lived in subsidized housing in the middle of sugarcane fields." Most of the families in the neighborhood were Samoan, Japanese, Hawaiian, Chinese. Bette's family were the only whites...
...replied Tsosie. "Are you Samoan?" "No," he said again. "Then what are you?" she let out in a high pitched voice. "I'm American Indian," he answered. "Oh" and she grew silent. Then she looked at him and said very slowly. "You-speak-Eng-lish-ve-ry-well...
Fathered by a Samoan teenager, adopted at nine months by the Greek owner of a San Diego fishing-boat dock, Louganis had a stammeringly shy childhood that was further complicated by dyslexia and asthma. Tumbling in gym classes before the age of two and dancing in studio theatricals by three, he started to apply these disciplines to diving at seven with a solitary single-mindedness that may seem a little sad. Socially, he is just now coming out of himself. "If you want to be the best, you have to sacrifice," he says. "This sounds so desperate...