Samoans

Anthropologically and historically, Samoans are people of Polynesia who migrated, according to some historians, from Malaya or India, and, according to others, from India or Asia; even some believe that they came from Raiatea or Hawaiki. Culturally, they are polite, respectful, generous, and outstandingly hospitable. Morally, they are jealous, envious, revengeful and prone to falsehood. Samoans are defined in the Webster’s Dictionary as “One of the natives of Samoa, among the finest and purest …

…the aumaga, or the Young Men’s Guild, once he passed boyhood. The Samoans set this age to be sixteen. This was the age where a young man would be tattooed and receive all the benefits as a Samoan man. A lavish ceremony always followed a young male’s initiation into manhood. The mythologies of birth and death and the art of tattooing are just two of the fascinating cultural aspects involved with the Samoans.