On Faasamoa
This is not a post about what "FaaSamoa" means. If you are looking to be illuminated on the customs and traditions of the Samoan people, perhaps continue down the list of Google results. Because on that topic, I consider myself to be at the caliber of Jon Snow. I know nothing. So what is the point of this post then? It is mostly self-reflection on the nothing that I know, and a look ahead at what I would like to know. The nothing Although I was born and raised in Samoa, we were never really immersed in things of the Samoan culture. As we lived in a village, we participated in certain aspects, but most of the time it was in the context of church-related activities. Our parents never explicitly taught us about the culture, nor did they take us along to things where we would have perhaps learned by "osmosis". We were so clueless about culture, that when people turned up to our house looking for Fuāmatu, we innocently turned them away because we did not realise it was o...