Comments on: Samoan’s driving on the left. Why? http://drsamonline.com/2011/06/27/rant-politics-social-religious-etc/samoans-driving-on-the-left-why/ More pontification than a 15 minute office visit Tue, 22 Jan 2013 17:17:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: drsam http://drsamonline.com/2011/06/27/rant-politics-social-religious-etc/samoans-driving-on-the-left-why/#comment-406 drsam Sun, 03 Jul 2011 20:23:25 +0000 http://drsamonline.com/?p=145#comment-406 I appreciate your perspective. Thanks for the feedback!

Cheers,

Sam

]]> By: NiuZila http://drsamonline.com/2011/06/27/rant-politics-social-religious-etc/samoans-driving-on-the-left-why/#comment-386 NiuZila Thu, 30 Jun 2011 23:36:19 +0000 http://drsamonline.com/?p=145#comment-386 Hi Dr Sam. I am a Samoan born and bred in NZ. There are over 150,000 Samoans living in NZ, and another 60,000 in Australia – compared to 190,000 in (Western) Samoa. So from my perspective, changing sides of the road makes sense. I guess my issue is the way PM Tuilaepa implemented his change, but that’s a different matter. Again, with the date change, Samoa is closer to Australia and NZ than the US, and it would make business sense to have the same Mondays and Fridays as your closest trading partners. In terms of PM Tuilaepa’s xenophobic comments, Samoans are very proud of our independence, our history and our culture. His comments may play to those Samoan characteristics politically, but I also think there is an inherent trait to most Samoans to be very insular-looking, conservative and therefore somewhat arrogant of being Samoan. Samoans believe, as I do, that we have been in Samoa since time immemorial, and we will be there till the end of days.

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