THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES
SAMOAN SOCIAL LIFE.
Among the unrecorded influences which set and have kept the Samoan agitation ablaze is that of so.ial coniliet. Ludicrous though it may appear at this distance, an investigator in Samoa finds that the matter of social jealousy crops lip at every turn. To realise the significance attaching to this factor it is necessary to remember that in Western Samoa there are over 2000 half-castes and that the lialfeastc, quite naturally, is very sensitive to slight, or apparent slight, and ready to take offence. Actually it is a question of colour line. The friction of the colour line may, and does, involve some of the European fathers of half-caste children. Numbers of half-castes are men and women who have been educated abroad and are quick to resent signs of aloofness by Europeans of the Administration, who may not have had their own advantages in the matter of education, but may assert in many small ways a sense of superiority which, also is quite natural.
—Press Correspondent
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Hokitika Guardian, 11 April 1930, Page 4
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172THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES Hokitika Guardian, 11 April 1930, Page 4
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