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Faʻafafine (Samoan pronunciation: [faʔafafine]; lit. ' in the manner of a woman ') are natal males who align with a third gender or gender role in Samoa. [1] Fa'afafine are not assigned the role at birth, nor raised as girls due to a lack of daughters, as is often claimed in western media.
The traditional culture of Samoa is a communal way of life based on Fa'a Samoa, the unique socio-political culture. In Samoan culture, most activities are done together. The traditional living quarters, or fale (houses), contain no walls and up to 20 people may sleep on the ground in the same fale. During the day, the fale is used for chatting ...
Samoans or Samoan people (Samoan: tagata Sāmoa) are the Indigenous Polynesian people of the Samoan Islands, an archipelago in Polynesia, who speak the Samoan language. The group's home islands are politically and geographically divided between the Independent State of Samoa and American Samoa , an unincorporated territory of the United States ...
The tau'olunga is a dance for single young women, especially for them to show off on their wedding day. It is rare--but not impossible--for a married couple or an older woman to do a tau'olunga. It is also rare to see a man perform the dance, but he can mimic the dancing girl's movements in an exaggerated manner to make her beauty more striking ...
Samoan police band, wearing lava-lavas A Samoan woman wearing a lavalava in Apia. A lavalava, sometimes written as lava-lava, also known as an ' ie, short for 'ie lavalava, is an article of daily clothing traditionally worn by Polynesians and other Oceanic peoples. It consists of a single rectangular cloth worn similarly to a wraparound skirt ...
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It is a freeware program, [3] which converts video files from one video format to another, mainly to (Windows default) AVI format. [4] AVI format support is better than in other (MP4/WebM etc.) DVDVideoSoft converters. Free Video Converter is distributed as a part of Free Studio and as a separate download. [3] [5] The software is developed by ...