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Pacific Island Culture

Pacific Island Culture. Assignment. You will need to be able to compare Pacific Island culture with Utah/American culture. Write down similarities and differences on your worksheet. You will be required to write a mini-essay about the two cultures after. Review: What is Culture?.

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Pacific Island Culture

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  1. Pacific Island Culture

  2. Assignment • You will need to be able to compare Pacific Island culture with Utah/American culture. • Write down similarities and differences on your worksheet. • You will be required to write a mini-essay about the two cultures after.

  3. Review: What is Culture? • Culture is a human characteristic • “What you do in a day” • What you eat • Wear • Sing/Listen to • Entertainment • Beliefs • Say/Language

  4. REVIEW: What are the Pacific Islands? • Polynesia: • several groups of islands forming a triangle including Hawaii, the Easter Islands, and New Zealand.  • Melanesia: • Fiji, Papau New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, and New Caledonia.  • Micronesia: • eight territories and includes Guam, Diribate, and the Marshal Islands.

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  6. Family and Community • The Pacific Islanders live a very collectivist lifestyle where the family, both immediate and extended, works together in a solidified community. • The culture is "family and community centered" that works mainly due to the subsistence lifestyle essential to their survival in these small islands.  • This Polynesian culture flourished because people lived close to each other in villages, they had scarce resources such as lands and foods, of which almost all things needed to be shared. 

  7. Language • 1,200 different languages are spoken in the Pacific Islands • Impact of colonization: • European languages like French are spoken in many islands • Pidgin English: a mix of English and the native language Saying Hello • Fiji - BulaVinaka • Hawaii – Aloha • Maori – kia o ra • Samoa – Talofa • Tahiti – iaorana • Tonga – Malo e lelei

  8. Traditional Sports • Surfing • Outrigger canoe racing • Spear fishing • Influence of colonization: • Baseball • Cycling • Archery • Interesting Factoid: • Football players of American Samoan descent are estimated to be 40 times more likely to make it to the NFL than any other player. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/53/Hawaiki_Nui_Va%27a_4.jpg

  9. Entertainment •   Imbedded deeply into the Polynesian culture is that of music, dance, and food.  Much of the Polynesian art and dancing relays the story of the events of missionaries and political control, as music and dance is an ancient way of passing down history from one generation to another.  http://www.bbc.co.uk/cymru/chwaraeon/safle/rygbi_rhyngwladol/images/051105_haka_getty.jpg http://travel.nationalgeographic.com/travel/countries/french-polynesia-photos/#frenchpolynesia-torch-twirling_2986_600x450.jpg

  10. Values • Pacific Islander culture follows customs and traditions based on ancient principles that promote living an honorable and noble lifestyle.

  11. Sources • http://education.byu.edu/diversity/culture.html#asian • http://uh-manoa.tripod.com/id5.html • Boehm, Richard G. World Geography and Cultures. The McGraw-Hill Companies. 2008.

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