Samoan_Culture

Samoan Culture I interviewed a friend of mine named Doug, he is from Samoa. Samoa is an island in the South Pacific. It is considered to be a Polynesian Island. The Polynesian Island was founded by a white man named Captain Cook. Doug had told me that the Samoans and the “Howlys”, or white man, have a special bond ever since then. When Captain Cook came to the islands the Polynesian people welcomed him right in. I asked Doug about some of the different aspect of the Samoan culture and this is what he told me about clothing. He said some people were normal modern clothing, or what we consider to be normal modern clothing. But it is traditional for men to wear, Lava Lava’s, which are light pieces of cloth that wrap around their waists. It looks like what we might call a skirt. It is very much a lounging around type of clothing. Doug himself has a few that he wears on an occasion at the dorm. The women wear something similar to the Lava Lava’s but they have two pieces, a top and a bottom. They are called Mumu’us, they are a piece of cloth that also wraps around samoa, one, family, island, doug, dance, very, own, clothing, around, another, type, samoans, samoan, people, live, hawaii, eat, culture, bread, about, wear, traditional, told, side, same, said, rice, polynesian, normal, much, light, different, cook, cloth, captain