The culture that my group chose to research was the Samoan people. We chose this group because we thought it had an interesting name and none of us knew very much about their culture so we all wanted to learn more. Some of the things that I discovered about my culture is that the women are expected to have a very high tolerance for pain. If a woman is having laboring pains and cries out, one of the elder women will slap her to remind her to toughen up. Another interesting thing that I learned about the Samoan culture is that, because they do not have a written script they are extremely passionate about passing poems, stories, or family histories orally. Some of this could be helpful to me in a medical setting knowing that not all cultures allow different pain medications, and no how much they may seem to be in pain it would actually be worse to give them any type of medication than it would be to leave them as they were. I would like to learn a little bit more about the etiquette of the Samoan culture, including how they greet or say goodbye to one another.
This is a picture of the Samoan Rugby team doing their chant before one of their games.
“Le Manu Samoa e, ia manú le fai o le faiva
Le Manu Samoa e, ia manú le fai o le faiva
Le Manu Samoa lenei ua ou sau
Leai se isi Manu o le atulaulau
Ua ou sau nei ma le mea atoa
Ma lo'u malosi ua atoatoa
Ia e faatafa ma e sósó ese
Leaga o lenei Manu e uiga ese
Le Manu Samoa! Le Manu Samoa!
Le Manu Samoa e o mai i Samoa!
Hi!”
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