NAME IT FIRST

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For Samoan Americans

Name the Identity Tensions Shaping Your Hyphenated Life

Name what living fa'asamoa means for you here.

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For the Samoan American person working through what it means to carry Samoan identity — faasamoa, the family obligation system, the role of church and aiga — in American life

You'll produce:your Your Samoan American Identity Charter

The Name It First Experience

Faasamoa — the Samoan way of being — is not culture. It is an entire framework for how a person lives: the obligations to aiga (family), the respect for the collective, the role of the church, the meaning of service. You carry that framework into America, where individual achievement and independence are the default values. This workbook is about naming the gap between faasamoa and American life — and what you are choosing across it. You leave with The Samoan American Identity Charter — a named account of who you are.

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Sample questions

  1. What part of your Samoan heritage are you most proud to carry into your daily life?
  2. What does community mean to you — who are the people who hold you and shape you?

Research basis

Phinney (ethnic identity development) / Berry (acculturation framework) / Macpherson (Samoan diaspora identity) / Lilomaiava-Doktor (Samoan cultural values) / Hall (cultural identity theory)

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