Summary:
The author states that the adolescent girl is the same in America as in Samoa, and that it is the nature of the civilizations that differs. One thing that is a big factor in setting off a sense of easiness in growing up in the society is the casualness of it. Conflicts are settled often not with violence but by moving into another house.
One way in which their civilization differs from American culture is in the number of available choices. American youths have a wide variety of religions, occupations, and educational choices whereas the Samoan youth have a very narrow focus of what they can pick from.
Discussion:
American and other Western cultures tend to have access to modern technologies and ideologies not available to more primitive cultures. Those with simple subsistence practices will generally have a more casual pace of life than those where capitalist and other similar economies are the dominant form of commerce. This does not place less worth on a culture that has a more simple subsistence practice nor does it mean that our modern culture has ore intrinsic worth, either. These are just differing possibilities available to people.
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