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Children in Western society are raised knowing words, such as, individuality, choice, competition, monogamy, success and failure, while cultures like the Samoans instill different values into there children. The Samoans believe in group or community, humbleness, sexual freedom, and division of labor. ...
Mead conducted her study among a small group of Samoans -- 600 people -- in which she got to know, lived with, observed, and interviewed (through an interpreter) the sixty-eight young women between the ages of 9 and 20. ... After spending about nine months observing and interviewing Samoans, as well as administering psychological tests, Mead concluded that adolescence was not a stressful time for girls in Samoa because Samoan cultural patterns were very different from those in the United States.
Approximate Word count = 696 Approximate Pages = 2.8 (250 words per page double spaced)
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