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Fa'a Samoa
Fa'a Samoa means literally "The Samoan Way," and in Samoa refers to an all-encompassing traditional system of behavior and responsibilities that spell out each person's relationship to one another and to persons holding positions of power. In addition to prescribed familial relationships, which extend to one's entire extended family (the aiga) with its familial chief (the matai), one also owes respect to other persons in positions of authority, and to customs of long standing which have rather more force than mere etiquette.
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