A current problem impacting the island of American Samoa is the lack of tourism. One solution to this problem is to change the community’s attitude toward tourism meaning, the locals of the island do not think highly of tourists and aren’t very welcoming. According to an article from amsamoa.net, the text states that tourism is not prevalent in this part of the pacific, traffic has become very congested, and most land is protected by islanders who choose to use the land how they wish such as cultural practices. This shows that islanders’ attitudes towards tourists aren’t great for reasons such as it becoming an over crowded location and they are worried that American Samoa would become over crowded with construction sites and people worry
1.) How did the arrival of American missionaries in Hawaii affect the lives of Native Hawaiians?
Have you ever wondered how the lives of the coastal and plateau Indians are affected by their environment?Or how they only lived of the land and their natural surroundings? Well the Umatilla and Puyallup tribes lived of the land successfully and did it with there surroundings.The Puyallup tribe of the coast and the Umatilla tribe of the plateau interacted with their environment differently and similarly to provide food, shelter, and clothing for their people.
The ritual cycle of the god Lono involved carrying an image of Lone in a clockwise circuit of the islands. In November 1977, as the ritual was happening, Cook arrived on the islands. The Hawaiians believed that Lono had come in person, and treated Cook as they would have treated Lono by taking to the temple and continuing on with the rituals. Cook went along with it, and his symbolic death was when he departed for Kahiki. The Hawaiians didn’t anticipate his return until the next year when the ritual would be repeated, so they were angry when Cook returned on February 11, 1779 to fix one of his ships and killed him. Although Cook may have at some point known about the Hawaiian people believing him to be Lono, I think it would still have resulted
Hawaii is a beautiful place once filled with kind native Hawaiians, who welcomed every foreigners into their islands and treated them with respect. However, the foreigners took advantaged of the Hawaiians and sought more power to control their government. On January 17, 1893, the white officials from the Hawaiian government, supported by the US Marines, surrounded the Iʻolani Palace and demanded that the Queen abdicate her throne. Fearful of the sight before her, the Queen ceded. The US government took over the Hawaiian kingdom and the rest is history. The US takeover of the Hawaiian Kingdom changed the social institution of economy of the islands primarily through the introduction of the tourism industry. The tourism industry became the main
The Lakota tribes environmental wisdom and spirituality grew to stabilize among years of conservation and concern for the earth. All animals were respected like humans and the rivers and trees were cared for because the natural world was well alive like the humans that existed in it. The Lakota tribe lives on the Northern Plains of North America and are often referred to as “Sioux”. The Lakota tribe of the Great Plains are very much rooted to the earth and place a huge emphasis on home. In their culture the world was not savage, nor were the animals wild because on earth all spirits resided in nature. They defined their culture and continue to strengthen their values like kinship, courage, and wisdom in their community through rites of renewal/passage, dancing, and their style of clothing.
Your Maui vacation can be even more fun if you know a little bit about the history of Hawaii, and here are five history-related places to visit on the island. Build your vacation plans around them or just check in when you're in a particular area. You'll find them all in tourist publications, or you can locate them through an Internet map search. Gift shops at Bailey House and the A&B Museum are a good place to buy souvenirs.
The Polynesian peoples have a lifestyle quite different than that of any other culture, as living on an island requires a level of flexible adaptability in order to cope with such a different, sometimes difficult environment. We see the way diverse cultures build their lives around their circumstances and how they respect them in their cultural myths and stories. The Polynesian legends emphasize the physical environment that they live in. They are quite different than any other region in the world, but the beauty and individuality of the Polynesian culture is prominent as seen in their mythology.
There are many different people living in this world with different culture diversity, and ways of making a living. American Samoans are one of these countries with different
...Hawai`i’s economy is very dependent on tourism, however many locals are possessive of their land, and as they stereotype tourists, many do not accept others as they have a unity for their own. Numerous individuals feel the desideratum to fit the local stereotype because they prefer not to be labeled as a “haole”. It becomes tough and rather intense for an individual, because becoming haole betokens that you forgot and disregarded the local or Hawaiian quality values and ways of routes, as well as the flowing stream of life in the islands. We need to remind ourselves that regardless of where we emanate from, our skin tone, race, physical characteristics, and so forth, everybody ought to acknowledge just for who we/they are and treat one another like 'ohana and show "aloha", and subsequently, we can determinately verbally express "This is it. This is Paradise" (33).
Samoa is constituted of a group of islands located in the southern Pacific Ocean only a few miles away from the American island of Hawaii and New Zealand. In total, Samoa covers about 2,934 Square kilometres of land (Palenapa, 1993). The majority of Samoans live in these islands. Millions of others, however, live in other countries such as Australia, New Zealand and the United States of America among others. Although no culture can be said to be superior to the rest, the Samoan culture is one of the most prestigious ones in the world. This research provides an in-depth analysis of the Samoan culture. The analysis covers a wide array of cultural aspects, including foods, language, religion, social systems, etc. The primary aim of this
This paper will expose the life of the Samoan people who live on the islands in the South Pacific. It will express the life styles of the Samoan culture in terms of traditional lifeway: the location of the group, material culture and subsistence. As well as talking about the effects of globalization: giving a brief history and what led them to their present location. Followed by the current status of the group: describing the government, economy, health, and education levels.
Ethical tourism supports the directing of tourists’ money away from the global travel operators, towards the local community to facilitate community-controlled tourism (Hannam & Ateljevic 2007). Support for locals’ self-sufficiency and self-determination is a significant component of ethical tourism. To achieve this credible investigation should be conducted to identify those involved in mismanaging or embezzling the proceeds of tourism over the years and have them prosecuted. The local community should then placed in charge of the local tourism through the creation of transparent and accountable committees comprised of local members voted into the
Australia did not always want to grant Papua New Guinea (PNG) its independence. Starting from the end of World War II and into the1950s, the Australian colony of Papua and the United Nations (UN) Trust Territory of New Guinea, merged in 1949, and appeared to lie securely with Australia. The Minister for Territories, Paul Hasluck, in 1951, thought that self-government in PNG was still about a century off. The Australian public, had little concern for PNG. But there were many security concerns for Australia about perceived communist expansion, in the political future of Papua New Guinea. These security concerns contributed to changing the Australian government attitudes to the region in the early 1960s. There was also concern with international criticism of Australia's 'procrastination' in Papua New Guinea; this criticism came from Africa, Asia, Britain, Canada and the U.S. The Prime Minister of Australia, at the time, Robert Menzies thought that granting independence in Papua New Guinea, should be exercised sooner than later. However, this awakening to the need for change in Papua New Guinea was accompanied by little constitutional development. In 1960 there were some alterations to the territory's Legislative Council, but of the 37 members of the Council, only 6 were indigenous to PNG yet they were representing 98 percent of the population. The majority of power lied with the public service, which was largely independent of the legislature; it was only effectively controlled by the Australian Department of External Territories. Australians were still uncertain what to do with the colony. An example of this uncertainty can be shown in the proposal for making Papua New Guinea a seventh Australian state. This pr...
Fiji is located in the South Pacific and has more than 300 islands located on it. Fiji’s economy, which is a set of social scripts that people use in organizing their behavior, thoughts, and emotions to create a regular social pattern for the production and distribution of goods and services in an economy (Caston, 51)” is one of the most developed of the Pacific Island economies. As of 2013 Fiji’s population is “905,949 which mainly consists of Fijian’s which are 55% of the country, Indians which are 44%, European, other Pacific islanders, Chinese, and others take up the other 5% of the country (http://www.mapsofworld.com/fiji/population.html). We also can divide the population up into 3 different age groups. People between the ages of 0-14 have a
Some other villages in the sub-urban of Apia town in the east also prohibits any village family from having a two storey building, and it’s becoming a turning point of controversial between the village governance or village council and the approach of modernization in people and development. Urban migrants as result of village banishments have given up their lands, houses and identity and started seeking employments with additional loads to urbanization constraints. Emigration of Samoans to New Zealand and other countries as to seek for better living standards also highlighted the need of people to escape from village strict governance system and as results of banishments in many affected families. The youthful working age groups of families are being sent abroad and also realized the common economic challenges with other Pacific countries. It has reported that nearly 60% of Pacific Islanders with the growing numbers of Samoans are struggling in terms of rental housing, labor employment, social crimes and so forth