DRAGONS IN PARADISE - TALES OF TIME
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- čas přidán 20. 01. 2018
- The first wave of Chinese immigrants arrived in Samoa in the late 19th Century. As time stretched on and the more that came (be it as free settlers or indentured labourers), they integrated into the culture, learnt the fa'asamoa, married Samoans, had Samoan families and eventually died in Samoa as Samoans.
The legacy they left behind is powerful and can be seen in the culture and the people of Samoa today.
Despite the history, the newest wave of Chinese to arrive in Samoa has upset a lot of the locals. Taking businesses that should be set aside for Locals, skirting laws set up to prevent them from doing so and funnelling money out of the Samoan economy, are just some of the issues being voiced by Samoans.
This documentary, 'Dragons In Paradise', delves into the history of the Chinese in Samoa and examines the potential consequences of the latest Chinese influx that is sweeping the Pacific.
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So proud to have Samoan Chinese heritage. I hope to find out more about my Chinese ancestors. So I can pass this onto my children and fully embrace all my cultures😀
I was So touched by this video. . . I am living in CHINA now and am also planning My own journey to track My roots. . . Much respect and love!
Please stay there, we already have enough chinese here we trying to kick out.
This was such an amazing documentary! As a Chinese Samoan descendant this was educational..
Thank you for bringing pork buns, chop suey, and chow mein my Chinese samoan brothers and sisters..
Kai lava sole , maguia le aso . Malo !
Pround to be Chinese samoan 🇨🇳🇨🇳🇼🇸🇼🇸
My Asian friends always asks me to find them Samoan girlfriends because they want their kids to be tall and big like the rock 😂. They’re funny buggas.
Great work Coconet. I was really looking forward to this doco and the sometimes taboo topic that it entails. Thank you for enlightening us on an important and integral part of our history! Please keep things like this coming. It is so important for our millennial generations to learn authentic history.
Thank you for sharing this story, I just learned something new about my culture. I am a afakasi. (I'm Hawaiian, Samoan, Chinese, Irish, Native American ) from Hawaii.
How wonderful you got to make the connection to your Chinese roots! My late grandfather also migrated to Samoa in that error! He married my grandmother & raised 9 kids.. he passed away in his mid 60s.. in the 1973.
Too bad there were no pictures & no documentation of him..so we would never know his family in China!! The only thing we have is a picture he had of Canton China! One of the most hard working men ever... him & the other Chinamen he migrated with😕
Such an important story to be told!
Really enjoyed this short doco! puts a lot of clarity not only on the introduction of the Chinese, yet also the mindset of the palagi rulers at the time (segregation, monoculture etc). My concern is that people are connecting her story of genealogy with the current status of Chinese investment in Samoa. Being afa kasi myself it amuses me to read comments on how "we" look down on our Samoan brothers and sisters, or how the Chinese at least worked along side etc. My fear in the future of Samoa doesn't necessarily start with China, yet the current mindset of Samoa. China is now the factory of the world, a hungry business driven machine, with very little care shown to the population. We have a corrupt government which aren't even smart enough to get a good deal for themselves haha. I predict in the future that along side the Chinese investors, you'll see just as many church investors. Right under the noses of the people, Catholic, Mormon, Jehova, 7th day, methodist... The list goes on!! Where do you think there investment comes from?
Some food for thought.
Great video. I grew up living and loving Samoan Chinese. They are afakasi as well. Chinese Samoan a Samoan in heart. I'm glad that you are still reaching out to your dad's country of origin.
Great storytelling and a poignant reminder of our Chinese neighbors' past. Thank you, Director Laumea, and your amazing team. I wish there was more! So here's hoping you'd come out with a sequel!
My great great great grandfather was one of the first recorded Chinese who came to Samoa in the 1800s-though I am a firm believer in protecting indigenous interests, it’s very interesting to see how Chinese culture has influenced us today.
i hope to find them
My great grandpa (Ah-Chong) from my dads side was sent back to China-while my other great grandpa (Fonoti-John Brown) from my mums side helped sign to send them back. My dad traveled so many times to China to find him and my great grandpas brother, but my dad couldn’t find them. I hope one day I can be able to find lost family. It’s so hard to track them and reunite even -if they are gone I want to find where they are.
I love this for our Chinese lineage. My great grandfather was named Kigi Kigi, or Ah Kin. My dad was brought up by him in Tanugamanono. He said his grandfather always invited his Chinese boys over to play Mahjong and smoke Opium, he made alot of money selling Opium to the businessmen in Samoa. I wish we had photos or stories of him back home in China. My goal is to one day find the connection back to his home town in Guangzhou.
This def sheds light of a new perspective. Thank you❤
My great grandfather (Ah Ken) came to Samoa as an indentured laborer from South China, he fell in love with a girl from Fagalii and never returned to his family. Made me emotional thinking about the hardship and consequences he may have faced not to leave his new found family in Samoa. As for this new generation Chinese, were in a danger zone now, reportedly China has invested $230million USD to Samoa to date... does PM seriously think its a goodwill handout? hell nah! our country is indebted to China, clearly they have a world take over agenda and our PM is a sucker for letting pull the wool over our eyes, its definitely a modern day financial colonialism! I strongly suggest we boycot any Chinese business outside of the Apia district and those with lesser than 60% of their staff are locals.
I was in Samoa for holidays visiting family last September and there were 3 local shops in the village, 2 of them being small corner shop type stores and the other being a large Supermarket type which had just opened a year before. Was told by my cousin, land the supermarket is on, is still owned by a local Samoan family however the business and all goods in it are owned by a Chinese family who had only been in Samoa for 2 years at that time. As the new wave of Chinese have access to cheaper goods coming from mainland China and massive buying power locally, the variety of their products and especially how less expensive their pricing is compared to the local Samoan shops bascially meant, everyone in the village was going to the Chinese run business. To put it in perspective, their pricing matches and is even lower than what is in Apia which a 45 minute drive from where I was and 3 other local run and owned stores have all closed in the last 16 months as they can't compete with the Chinese run supermarket. Like you said regarding the PM and gov't, they let this happen and unless something happens at the legislative level, Samoa will continue to get exploited.
Would you prefer the locals pay higher prices just so some other families can have a good business? Life is hard. Too many Samoan businesses have had a comfortable and charmed life with their high prices and are only now moaning because they have forced to lower their prices or they are being out-competed by people who simply work harder.
please stop reading far right SAMOA OBSERVER propaganda shit, will break your heart to see how many Samoan's comment here are shaming Chinese ethnic, and denying Samoans are part chinese! the new wave has more capital, the old wave coolies didn't have any money, there's no difference between two waves of chinese, they both work harder than the local and push limit to succeed the most, the grandfather or Rhonezlee even went back to China and buried in China when he died, all of his hard work in Samoa left to Samoans. Samoa's government building was funded by Chinese in 1994, It's not $230m they borrowed, it's $1,3bn USD they borrowed from 3 east asian banks, and Chinese are buiding samoans everything they need. It's disgusting to read comments like Chinese Samoan need to be sent to Korea, disappear. You want to boycoot Chinese buisness, imagine they did that to your grandfather! Do you honner your grandfather's hard work? He built your family everything you have today thanks to him, Do you even know where your grandfather's from? Do you speak chinese and respect your heritage? Why the fuck is samoan culture more important than chinese culture? Chinese culture is richer and way more interesting than pacific island culture, you obviously knows nothing. Isn't this kind of SICK?
@@directorlunchie2322 While I appreciate the sentiment you're expressing, you saying that Chinese culture is "richer and way more interesting" than Pacific Island culture isn't really accurate. For one, there is no Pacific Island culture. Shared ancestry aside, there are Pacific Islands and each group of people from those islands have their own unique culture, something I know you're aware of. There is also no qualitative amount from which cultural richness can be measured because the considerations are arbitrary. It's comparing apples to oranges and seems like something said purely to piss people off? Your anger is clear, and we all know misery loves company, but if you want people on your side you probably shouldn't finish by insulting not only their culture but the culture of every other Pacific Islander. It really was an unnecessary and inaccurate comment that invalidated a lot of what you said which is a shame because for the most part I agree with you.
My great grand father was also an Ah Ken. I think that there were two brothers. He married my Great grandmother from Fagalii.
I remember hearing stories of him smoking opium from China.
Yes this is my History, my people... Bring me inner tears. House of Ah Chang from Malie Apia. Related to the Toelupe' family.
A beautiful production and part of our history, fa'afetai lava for sharing these stories -they inspired me to find out more about my Chinese Grandad. I heard that he was in Samoa working in the plantations as mentioned in these stories. Any help on where to start would be very much appreciated by me and my siblings to find missing pieces of our family history.
Did she say hospital or hospitable? Mrs. Hospital is trying to say there's racism to the new wave of Chinese. She's mistaken, and ill informed. The old Samoans didn't have a choice of whether welcome the Chinese back then, because the palalagi brought them in as indentured labourers, hence they welcomed them in, bred, with them, and they assimilated. This new crop of Saiga are rich entrepreneurs hoping to cash in the local economy cause there's virtually little competition to what the Chinese economy can offer to terms of manufacturing. There has to be some sort of protectionism for the local retailers.
She never said these racism with the new wave of Chinese, she was talking about how her grandfather and his generation were treated, and why are you trying to make fun of the way she speaks? She is way smarter than you, she speaks two languages while you struggle with one. I guess it hurts you to know facts about how whites treated Samoans then, and even now. Funny how you've a problem with Chinese but don't bring that same energy about palagi's who came to samoa and felt like they could just rule over us base on the lagu of their white skin. It's obvious today with Samoans who have a little white blood in them thinking they're better than Samoans
It’s Palangi
Josh Mangere "there is an air of racism towards the new Chinese" she expressly says it!
I agree! The Chinese are now doing what they do in the USA they marry to be able to start business. I feel the intentions are not the same as the olden days. If the blood line came from a pure place then that is wonderful. However, it's scary to think that they would take over the samoans. My background is Native American and Samoan , to think that both my great great even greater ancestors were taken over saddens me.
In Samoan its Palagi!
I ❤ the fact that they said our "Melanesian brothers" being melanesian. !!
❤️❤️❤️
This was so engaging and informative - great work!
To my grandfather fa'ala I love and miss you ....
I have Chinese on my mums side, but they're right, we have to be cautious of the new wave of Chinese..as they are not a part of the first batch... they would slowly buy up Samoan lands and in the end would one day lead Samoans as the foreigners to their own land .
but you don't even live in Samoa anymore, Samoans are moving out of pacific, settling in America and Australia, NZ, you are not helping Samoa, but you have problem with Chinese do? isn't that double standard especially you are part chinese? Do you even speak or write Chinese and respect your heritage? I'm Hoklo I have problem with you Samoans whining about Chinese ethnic and disrespect those who are part chinese, shame them for being part chinese, which is what you are doing. your ancestor should ahve stayed in China to their own land, so you wouldn't exist then?
is your mum part cantonese, hakka, hoklo? or elsewhere? do you even know the difference?
ioe e sa'o lelei oe sole !. Malo .
🌴🇼🇸 UsoIVLyfe 🇦🇸🇼🇸
Let them buy up Samoa teach us a lesson in hardwork and not being greedy.
@@directorlunchie2322 ok and? doesn’t mean u get to come and take our land
I absolutely loved this! My grandmother had part Chinese and even though I don’t know much of it, I’ve always been intrigued to find out more and discover my whole family tree.
Pork buns, lole Saiga, Kung Fu films, oh and those opium den in Apia :) i enjoy the Chinese influence in Samoa through the 80's as a kid.
What an awesome doco... Sheds light on a different perspective..
Sister..your efforts to find your grandfather's family in China is an amazing achievement. So proud of you..
Keep up the great work! Hopefully, there will be a doco of this quality made about pre-european Samoan History with regards to Tui Manu'a, etc, our interactions with Tonga & Fiji and where our people originated from prior to Samoa.
WELL MADE DOCUMENTRY. THANK YOU.
Wow, this is awesome to hear. Faafetai mole sharing o kou stories. Very nice.
God bless.
Beautiful story... loved it
So fascinating to learn about this documentary 👍respect for showing it to the world to love.
I love this series !
Love this Doc. Malo lava.
Well done on a great doc, great watch 👍
I really enjoyed this, Faafetai Tele lava from the great grandson of Charlie Ah’You who owned a business in Lepea years ago & married the daughter of Chief Patea Maka’i from Lotoso’a saleimoa and then had my nana 🙂
I really really enjoyed this doco!!~~ 😭🌺
Wow. Great doc.
Such an emotional and amazing story
Thanks for sharing your story and very educational
Oooooh more segments like this please :)
Love the documentary
Loved this documentary malo lava
The only people who forcefully take over Pacific countries are Palagi. History proves it. The Chinese have always come in peace and they end up being assimilated into their new countries. When Chinese marry into Samoan families, they become Samoan. History proves this too.
We don't need these infrastructures and developments...we Samoans need to stick to our culture and live off the land...all these buildings and fia grow your economy is just gonna make Samoa into another Hawaii where the Hawaiians are pretty much no longer...next will be pollution and the growing population of outsiders...please Samoa fa'alogo Mai...My Line comes from the great lineage of Kings Tui Manu'a...
Look how the whites treat you and how the Chinese treat you Chinese never killed you guys. But the whites did
People that were oppressed but rose through hard work to high places. What a great immigrant story.
great story!
This is very interesting ❤
What a moving documentary well i know my family line is from the canton line. Great great gramps was a great chef for orator rls back then. Great stories.
I want to see a doc with the heavy Chinese influence in Tonga
BM were in the Same boat and it will sink one day
@@31titan70 Don't kid yourself, the boat sank when the Europeans arrived and drilled holes into it.
Very interesting
I love this. I wish I knew more about my Chinese family
It's so sad how everyone's roots go deep and yet we are kept stupid from knowing about there's so much to learn about this beautiful and ugly life we live in, where we came from, etc etc.
Hardest workers on planet the Samoans and Chinese what a perfect match !
this is so kool
She found her grandfathers family especially the letters he had written many years back. I thought that was pretty cool.
Interesting. I want to visit Samoa someday.
I wish I knew my great grandfather’s history
This is my Home!!! 🇼🇸🇼🇸🇼🇸
I always seen the Samoans as my brothers
tuki ur amazing genius
Love the documentary Nice history of chinese in samoabut like the man said the new wave of Chinese is more aggressive.
That photo of the guy with the buckets on a stick ... thats my grandfather
They need to put this in America's history books im tired of explaining my race
It’s like fireworks. 🎇😎
Chinese is everywhere not only small islands but in the world cos of their population and hard working in every aspect of life
I am trying to trace my kids & grandchildren's roots who were indentured labourers from the Solomon Islands & New Ireland in PNG..Its work in progress.
Although I love this documentary and how this lady was able to go to China to meet her grandfather's family, but please don't be blinded by the fact that China today and China back then are completely different. Today, China is a world power, still trying to convince the world that they are not a communist country, although they have deviated from that for a while, their history of human rights violations is appalling. Nowadays, they refer to themselves as more Capitalists..capitalism. China's military is the biggest in the world and one of the most powerful. It has nothing to do with being racist, Samoa has to look out for the welfare of their people and future. For a tiny island nation, they can be wiped from the face of the earth. Open your eyes and your mind, be smart Samoa. Don't be blinded by money! You have a Prime Minister there who is blinded by money, kissing the enemy's backside.
China is a communist country,
It’s called, evil 👿
Yea Chinese don't killed the native like the white people did 😮
beautiful stories about Samoan Chinese we still related in Bloodline Brotherhood Family,,,cheeers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
There ain't no more 100% pure blood of where our roots oringally came from
Eletise J Niumata you’re wrong. The majority of Samoan in the independent country are full blooded. Some Samoan lie about being mixed blooded when they’re not nowadays lol. I have over 200 members in my family and only three family members has married to other nationalities and have kids with them but the rest are all full blooded Samoan. And this is only on my dads side. My mother’s side is similar too.
Samoan & Tongan needs to put a lid to Chinese migrants ASAP!
Best documentary I've seen for sure, it's funny how you've some fiapoko Samoans in the comment section say the lady is mistaken and ill informed yet its her family history and she has documents to prove it, guess these Samoans who have white blood in them are doing what a Lot of their white grandfathers done, and that's them thinking they're better than actual Samoans, notice its only Samoans with white in them that think like that! Big ups to the samoan saigas who never thought they were better, they just worked hard and respected our culture
Lol
So true
Oe sole , Josh Mangere , i sa'o lelei oe homie , fa'afetai tele lava !.... Malo
Josh Mangere amen
But the Chinese that are trying to move to samoa now are wanting to buy samoan land. Thank God the people voted kuilaepa out he was trying to give our land to China
whats the band n name of the song in the begining pls?
They need to talk to the president of the USA! Make Samoa first policy. You wanna play in Samoa you need to hire Samoans, do not bring your own laborers. Allow Samoans to compete economically..... It’s not racism, it’s national security.... China is doing this globally to a lot of small nations. Especially those that don’t have a defense force. Something to think about eh! God Bless Samoa
They can’t hire Samoan individual some of this individual are not very reliable to do the work. Education is the key in solving this problem
Why would anyone talk to the president of the usa about Samoa? Its a polynesian country not an american state. Apia, Samoa is in Polynesia
Its Samoa not *American* Samoa!!
my mum told me my father samoan chinese, but i was raised up on my mum side cookisland. cool vid
Glad they got Tuilaepa out of there, he was about to give a bulk of our land to China. "Tuilaepa Malie Le gaoi" his name should be kuilaepa ua over lou gaoi.
So where is all this stolen land? The new govt has been in power for two years now trying to dig up dirt. Where is it? It was nothing but a big load of shit. No land was ever stolen nor sold to China. Stop believing all the bullshit you read on the internet
My grandpa's dad is half chinese from Lotuanu'u - Ah tong bloodline. And also we have Chan mow and Ah Fook sides. I always consider myself as a full Samoan but people never think that when they see me first time. They would say that I look like a Filipino or mix of some sort of asian lol Chinese blood was really infused in my bloodline.
Does any one know whose rendition of 'Ua mavae atu aso lelei' can be heard at 17:08?
Rocky Ponting tiamaa?
Im Hoping And Praying That China Doesnt Take Over Samoa... Or Am I A Little To Late For That.?
Thats scary same with Tonga and I'm Tongan
I hope they do then all of Samoans dept would be paid and probably build what's needed and especially the hospital.
Samoa been taken over
are you even pacific islander? your last name is something else!
dude! you are cambodian, your last name is KHMER! can you STFU?!
Interesting that that Keni guy thinks the old Chinese weren't Chinese and instead Samoan? Denying their heritage and ethnicity to suit your argument against current Chinese isn't right. Also, the old "order" that keil guy is referring to was whites on top, taking all Samoan land, marrying local women and owning all businesses etc. Yet it was and is more widely accepted compared to Chinese ownership tsk tsk
my cousin last name ah-yiu i was like why do have a asian last name then he said his dads side of the family had chinese ties this was a good vid
Rona is very bias and to a considerable extent ignorant to the current state of affairs. Ken presents a more fair and objective outlook on the current Chinese migrants.
Agreed
Break it down for me....biased in what way
I think she takes it personally as a slight on her and her family and heritage when it is not. Ken is more grounded and is less emotionally invested.
Lol lelei a Saiga a a’e i luga le Saiga alaku leisi Saiga saposapo i luga, Amio a Hamo, kau a’e loa leisi i luga, laku leisi koso i lalo le ‘ie fa’akelefua lol...
They are very smart people support each other
20:36 My cousins store in Moata’a Uta. Lol..
Alot of proud and racist Samoans on the comment section . we're all created in the image of God no matter where we're from.get right with the Lord my people!love you all.Fa'amalosi.
Lessons learned in New Zealand they have made rules to make it harder for immigrants from China to exploit the economy ! You really need a new government in Samoa!
Haha funny guy how many new zelander have the Chinese killed and how many new zelander have the white people killed
Can someone please tell me what song appears at 17:02
Seu Lou pologa by tiamaa
Yes I'm Chinese
The new wave of Chinese in Samoa are like the Koreans in American Samoa.
There is no such thing as American Samoa! It's SAMOA!!!
What happened with the Koreans in samoa
@how u_ _doin Ahh, yes there is American Samoa which is a Territory of the USA as well as Independent State of Samoa shown in this doco (fka Western Samoa)
I wish we had Koreans instead of Chinese
🇦🇸wow
Lit :)
The moment Samoa accepts the $40 million from of the most powerful countries in the world and it so happens that the same country is communist, Samoa is no longer independent 23:28
Well, the palusami must of been worth the ancient chopsticks. Jokes aside, I do understand the concerns on both sides. However, Samoa should remain, Samoa and China is China. No one overstepping thier China and so with that said, the Samoan people should be respected.
More about chinese samoans their has been many stories.
He used to garden while I played in a wheel barrel
Your grandfather would say Tv1 is corrupt.
Mums family are Samoan Chinese from faleasi’u village
The old chinese married locals, had Samoan children and worked hard. The new chinese are marrying locals, are having Samoan children and are working hard. What is the difference? People like ken from the samoa observer cannot complain (as he always does) about the higher cost of living and then whinge and moan about chinese lowering the prices of everyday goods. We never really hear from the Samoans buying from these shops but always hear about the other (Samoan) business owners who instead of working harder, innovating, going into partnerships with other business owners, using more family lands etc etc, they just sit there and whinge and moan through the newspapers and on social media. I bet you that OLP guy is a local business owner who doesn't want to lower his prices.
10:26 threw me off thinking they were full chinese til they started speaking lmao