On: How the Samoan Tattoo Survived Colonialism

[ilamont]

Curious if there are differences in the practice or styles in American Samoa vs. the independent nation of Samoa.

[TallGuyShort → ilamont]

I knew many Samoans and a few American Samoans as a child - I couldn't see that much of a cultural difference. My uber driver a few months ago was from American Samoa and I actually thought to ask - she said there's really no difference and people only see the distinction as being a foreign thing.

I'm sure there are some Samoans from either side that might disagree, or that there are subtle differences I never observed, but I think the biggest distinction is just who prints their passports.

[knolax → TallGuyShort]

>she said there's really no difference and people only see the distinction as being a foreign thing.

Foreign as in the distinction only matters to non-Samoans or that the only difference between Samoans and American-Samoans is that they are technically de jour Foreign?

[dragonwriter → knolax]

> de jour

I'm not sure if this was intentional, but I kind of like this for a legal status viewed as being ephemeral, as a portmanteau of du jour and de jure.

[TallGuyShort → knolax]

I'm not sure I understand much of a distinction between the two, to be honest.

[lazyasciiart → TallGuyShort]

Hmm, sounds like she's not a sports fan then. There's some significant differences in which sports they play, and something of a one-sided rivalry in the ones that they both play.