Thursday, March 31, 2011

Book Reading 42 - Coming of Age in Samoa

Appendix III – Samoan Civilization as It Is Today
Summary

Samoan civilization has changed a bit over time and gained some European influence.  However, this has not killed off or destroyed their ways of the past.  Instead, they have absorbed and included aspects of European society that makes their lives easier and more comfortable, but have not taken in any of the negative that goes along with it.

Discussion
This again seems to show that our society is the source of the behavior of our adolescents.  The Samoan culture was able to absorb some of our features and even give their children some more choice.  However, they still have their classic way of doing things intact, so this has a lot to do with why they still don’t see the problems Mead was investigating for our society.

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