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A4 Honolulu, Jan. 28. 197 Tht Sunday Star-Bullttln Advertlier California tops Hawaii for most Samoans "Some Samoan families I know In San Francisco have changed their, telephone numbers three or four times' or have let their phones be disconnected. However, they note that while some people call from American Samoa Just to talk, others call about something important that takes a long time to explain. "When the California Samoans disconnect their phone to avoid this sort of they 'disconnect' themselves from the local Samoan community at the same time, and one more person is 'lost' to the community." Franco, who comes from a large family himself, spent four months in Western Samoa in 1975 doing research for his master's degree thesis, which dealt with the Roman Catholic Church in Western Samoa.

He has also visited other parts of the Pacific. He was passing through Honolulu en route to Tonga, where he will teach history and English at Atenisl Institute. He will also learn the Tongan language while he is there. He said he will pass through American and Western Samoa to urge government and other leaders to consider creating a "migration preparation" program that will advise would-be emigrants what they will encounter in Hawaii and California. "Anyone considering emigrating from Samoa should be told of the things that are out there beyond the horizon other than the security of the extended family: things like crime, employment difficulties, housing difficulties, language difficulties." he said.

"Every indication is that Samoans leave Samoa with a less than clear picture of what urban life and other aspects of West-em culture are all about." Samoans were seen as 'lazy' and prone to drinking and brawling, and these images stuck in Hawaii. But they did not move on to California." Meanwhile, new negative images are being created by on-going adjustment problems of Samoans in Hawaii, Franco said. Statistics show that Samoans have contributed disproportionately to health and social welfare workloads. For example, although Samoans comprise less than 2 percent of the state's population, they make up larger proportions of welfare recipients, public housing residents and illegitimate births. Despite these and other negative images, American society has much to learn from Samoans and fa'a Samoa, Franco feels.

"Let's face it, the American family is in trouble, but the Samoan family despite immense pressures placed upon it outside of Samoa is not. If all American families looked after their own as the Samoan family does, the cost of social welfare programs in our country would greatly diminish. "We can't assume that fa'a Samoa is the 'problem' whenever it comes into conflict with something in our Western culture. Fa'a Samoa and the extended Samoan family have so much to contribute to American culture, just as so many other cultures have made contributions." he said. Meanwhile, wherever Samoans migrate, they are giving up pieces of fa'a Samoa and encountering adjustment problems, according to Franco.

And in California, one of those problems is communication specifically, the telephone. Many Samoans report that other Samoans call collect from American Samoa, and the Samoan in California feels he must accept the charges even though they may be very high. other Samoan families, take in visitors freely and provide aid and support to any relative no matter how distant who is in need. Franco said he and other researchers have discovered that the extended Samoan family and. closely connected with it, their church, regardless of the denomination is the single most important thing that enables Samoans to survive outside of Samoa.

"It is their primary adaptive mechanism. You could say the same thing about most other ethnic groups that have migrated to the United States, but it is especially true among Samoans. Most people don't understand the enormous pressures experienced by Samoans trying to live in a non-Samoa culture." But Samoans have a less positive image in Hawaii than in California for reasons other than that Hawaii is where they learn to deal with culture shock. Franco added. Samoans are less visible in California, especially in its large urban areas.

Also, there are far fewer negative Samoan stereotypes in California than in Hawaii. He pointed out that Samoan migration to and through Hawaii has been going on since what was formerly Eastern Samoa became American Samoa in 1899. Emigration out of American Samoa was especially heavy during the 1950s, when the Navy provided transportation for Samoans wanting to migrate to the United States. As many as a thousand Samoans at a time were brought to Hawaii. "Predictably, these people had big problems adjusting to Western and urban life, neither of which they were used to in Samoa," Franco said.

"As a result of those difficulties, several negative stereotypes about Samoans developed in Hawaii. Some By TOM KASER l'nirrtity Vritrr Samoans are more peaceful and better adapted in California than they are in Hawaii, says a Pacific Islands researcher who was in Hawaii last week. Robert Franco of the Center for South Pacific Studies at the University of California-Santa Cruz said Samoans are generally happier in California because Hawaii is usually their first experience living outside of Samoa and it often isn't all that pleasant an experience. "This is not to say that Hawaii is a bad place to live or that non-Samoans in Hawaii are less friendly and tolerant than non-Samoans in California." he told The Advertiser Friday after a talk to a seminar sponsored by the University of Hawaii's Pacific Islands Studies Program. "Rather, it is to say that Western culture is sharply different from Samoan culture in several basic ways, and Hawaii is usually the place where Samoans encounter these differences for the first time.

"In other words. Hawaii is very much a learning ground for Samoans. and those who go on to California have learned some important and painful lessons about adapting to conditions and values that didn't exist in Samoa." For example, fa'a Samoa the Samoan way of life emphasizes communalism and the extended family rather than competition and the individual, which Western culture emphasizes, he said. In Hawaii and California, it is common for large numbers of Samoan relatives, including cousins, aunts and uncles, to live in a house that would be considered very overcrowded by American middle-class standards. Meanwhile.

Samoans tend to have large families, informally give away children to 1 Robert Franco: "We can't assume that fa'a Samoa is the 'problem' whenever it comes into conflict with something in our Western culture." 3 I INTERNATIONAL KITCHENS In the Ptcrlridfl Shopping Center Warning on fishing expansion I AUirM CDtrfJf Ka itiff! ih "Hunarlat" oughly studying the matter is "reckless." Carroll said. The state recently signed an agreement with the Navy to use Midway Island as a base for a tuna-fishing mother ship which would service up to 20 catcher boats. 5r" Wl on thn big discount days! I fJlQiratalcsiy Republican state Sen. John Carroll has warned the state to go slowly with its plan to exploit the fishing potential of the Leeward Hawaiian Islands. In a news release, Carroll said the potential environmental and ecological impact of heavy fishing in those waters is not yet understood.

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Piaco to bo dotorminod Placo to bo dotorminod Kalihi-Palama Multi-sorvico Ctr. Kahuku Library City County of Honolulu George Moriguchi ChM ptMmiaf Office Department of General Planning FRANK F. FASI, MAYOR City and County of Honolulu i Ala Moono and Pearlridge 1979XPnne Co, Inc For morej Information and to confirm mooting datos, call tho Neighborhood Commission off ico at 323-4087..