I Can Get Another Wife But I Can't Any Parents (HUMAN FACES OF THE PACIFIC) - 1983
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(18 May 2018)
Here's a good documentary from the early 1980s that I am sure many of you will enjoy.
This short doco (from a series called HUMAN FACES OF THE PACIFIC) focuses on a family who are preparing to emigrate to New Zealand. It shows some of the challenges faced by many of our people in preparation for moving to a foreign new land and adapting to a new culture. I am sure many of us have been products of these types of migrations and it was all for mainly the same reasons - better opportunities for families both in the diaspora and in the islands.
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Here is the official synopsis of the film:
The western part of Samoa has been independent of New Zealand since 1962, but a strong chain of emigration to New Zealand continues to tie the two countries together. This film follows a young Samoan family over a period of some weeks before they join the migrant exodus. The young couple experience the tensions of separation from their closely knit families. There is a serious conflict between the couple and the wife's parents, which threatens the marriage. The husband considers going without his wife. Eventually, however, the family comes to an uneasy truce which allows husband and wife to emigrate together.
So hope you all enjoy this clip. I will be posting a couple more docos over the next few weeks.
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I am not even Samoan, this still gave me a sense of pride for the land and the people , the animals and the sky, most interesting.
And the ocean
Seeing her mom crying makes me feel emotional & sad , brings back the days when my mum cries at the airport for me leaving my home country at a young age to start a new life in a foreign country . God bless u all my pacific brothers and sisters who’s leaving their home country to start a new life in a new environment . 🇫🇯❤️
It's hard for the daughters parents because that is their pride and joy, that is their right hand. They love her so much they want the best. He should know that as a sāmoan you respect your wife's parents like you respect yours
Watching this in 2021, and its a great experience to watch how our people and country in the past looks like, and the big difference back then and now. So much has changed but we still remember and treasure our past in our hearts. Its a great short video from the past and it has a lot of meaning and message behind it. Always remember and know our roots. I'm proud to be Samoan.
Well said👏🏽
Samoan have proportionally high suicide rates. Parents bring up kids to be their servants and take on their financial responsibilities. And in a modern society that pressure fucks kids and young adults up. So they kill themselves because of the pressure. Just a sorry li e of young Samaons that come through my wife's psychological services all saying the same thing.
Wow! great and amazing documetary. If i can recall, that's Taefu Lemi (former MP & Assoc Minister for MNRE) the younger brother in the film from Siufaga, Falelatai,a certified accountant by Profession . His younger brother Tovi'o Taefu was my former Accounting Teacher at Samoa College now the Head Principal of Vaimauga College. The pool shown in the wife's village is at Levi, Saleimoa. Been looking for this doc since i watched it before but lost midway through. Thanks to the Le Faleoo Archive.
I was blessed to have lived in Samoa for two months in 1993 during a bicycle trip from Canada and grew to love the beautiful people and it's culture and tradition . I have much respect for the Samoan people and this video reminds me so much . Talofa .
I miss our old Samoan life very simple and humbling… I only wish to travel back in time ❤️😘😘😘🇼🇸
Sao lelei :)
@@LeFaleoo2021 faafetai faafetai tele mo la outou auaunaga matagofie mea uma. GB
@@auatamapese4489 faafetai mo faamanuiaga
He sounds so fiapoko
Kuaiga kamaloa g
Ole 2 ile 4 ile pakua
Its emotional to watch this when I personally know people who forgot about their parents back in Samoa.
Ene would have no teeth left if he disrespected my parents🤦🏽♂️🤣 Great video! Alofa Aku🙌🏽❤️🇼🇸
I wish there is a continuation of what happened to this lovely family. I am not a Samoan but this made me teary and reminds so much of when I left home more than 40 years ago. What a beautiful documentary.
Where r you from
Would love to see an update on this beautiful family.
I miss our village of Siufaga Falelatai in Samoa❤ this is the life most of our parents from all nations in the pacific lived to get us to where we are now in this world. I have soo much love and respect for what they did for us to provide us with a better future, I know I could not do what they did and am forever grateful
I love this small document from my beautiful Samoa back in the days especially when the dad cried ae koe oso loka igoigo le attitude ale kamaloa towards the father in law ☹his brother is way more respectful than him
Watching this put me in the shoes of my parents they went through all of that. Just so we could have an amazing life in Australia, they own both the cars they drive and own their own house. It's so inspirational to see.
Man, this channel is a gem of the highest quality. Thank you sooo much for these docos, they are informative and entertaining in the same sentence. Faafetai
I stayed with this family for a straight 6 full years, nothing but full of love and respect for them, lovely and successful people ❤️
Gracious Lord!...we’ve made some huge leaps in terms of “development” since this film was taken (nearly 40yrs). A genuine testimony to our continuous, yet often in vain and albeit desperate diaspora. It’ll be interesting to see a follow up of this young family’s journey. Did they accomplish their aspirations? rather that of their grieving families/communities? Did they survive the challenges as “aliens” in a foreign country? The brain-drain, the multi-facet social ramifications of such mass movements of people..Was it worth it? Perhaps, it really depends on where one’s priorities are and of course, where they stand......Anyway, a well presented piece of gem. A great reference material for Samoa’s overseas dispersion. I can still remember those bumpy unsealed roads, the archaic colonial buildings of Apia, the old Savalalo market, that solid old Motootua hospital etc. and then the glimpses of vintage Samoan village life. I can only reminisce of those fine old days. But,...they are gone and that is the beauty of this film. It is Time immemorial!! Thank-you for sharing this. Tears somehow abound as time catches up with one’s mortality indeed!
Thanks for stopping by fam! I have many more "old school" videos coming out over the next couple of weeks - many which I'm sure will take you on a trip down memory lane. Have you checked out the other old videos on the channel? Anyways, appreciate the support.
Our ways is hard and I grew up learning this when I was young. Watching this makes me miss even more of home. This is our Heritage handed down from our people. Culture holds strong and grow deep,in hearts, islanders.
Was awesome to watch in 2021 💙Thanks for the upload🤙🏿my family had a very similar story we left the same island🏝 a year later when I was four, but we headed towards Los Angeles California, USA🇼🇸🇦🇸🇺🇸
I would send money to the wifes parents too, because its kinda sad to take there child away and be left with nothing.
Their baby is 3 years older than me,
I was born in Samoa.
When life was simple back in the 80's.
Wow so inspiring!!! We all can relate to this here 💪🏽👍🏽 fathers , husbands , brothers , sisters , mothers , daughters 😔 everyone !
Magaia le video faafetai lava for sharing. Had a good laugh, that guy Ene he is quite the character. Leaving behind parents and families where to something so different would have been so difficult, but with the hope of having a good future and get a job to help family in Samoa. Alofa atu and thanks for these videos 🙏🏼
Alofa atu foi mo oe le tuafafine ma le aiga.
24:50 It was the uncle with the guitar and his vailima bottle for me🤣 Lesssgoo uncle😂
Those buses need to slow down, driving like that with kids around
Present day Samoa you read on the news about bus and car crashes/accidents almost every week🤦🏽♂️
💯% true 👍, too many fish in the ocean, but you have only one mother, one father 🙏.
Thank you for posting this video coz it shows my hubby in his teenage years..lol....he showed the video to our kids what he looked like 😉😉😉
😂😂😂 that's awesome! Ua fiafia hubby ua koe vaai i aga keuga ma aga fika sa fai I aso la aea? Haha
@@LeFaleoo2021 🤣🤣🤣
“Nothing against him... i like him”
*proceeds to roast him*
25:12 🤣🤣 Malo Jim reeves
The wife 2 can get another husband, and she 2 has only 2 parents, Samoans are brought up to respect their parents, absolutely, but when you make the choice to get married, a husband or a wife takes presidence over parents, otherwise why would you get married, stay single if you want to keep your parents on the throne, indeed respect both equally if possible
True!!♥️♥️♥️
Love my samoan whanau from the 70's and 80's. You gave me a hiding and taught me how to fight lol
Just wondering if eneliko and his wife still leaves in nz or have migrated elsewhere. It’s good to see the old savalalo market and the old westec building on the opposite,and was that ice cream from isa’s
They are now migrated in Australia with their kids & Grandkids
@@faithhope2567 no they’re not
Yes would be good to do a follow up story
@@Raisonellhea how you know
It wouldve been wonderful to do a follow-up on this beautiful documentary, raw and full of emotion. I wonder where the family are in the new millennia?
But I HOPE I get another wife but not another parent 🤣 that's are real old days when Samoa man when he faalii. Magaia le ata 👌👌🙏
An informational video. Hopefully viewers from these countries was better informed then and even now of what these migrants left behind to come over and to what motivates them to do extra work to gain a bit more income so that they provide for themselves and the rest. I am Tongan and though this family is not perfect we look out for our family to the bone. Talofa Lava Uso's and to all my Poly tribe.
Is there a follow up? It would be good to see where they are now or how everything turned out
"a crippled economy" the economy doest matter when you're in paradise!! endless food, and water. but the idea that western economy is the standard was wrong from the beginning. our people should've stayed in the islands where we had all we needed!
Agree!
We've come a long way...Todah Ha-Shem Adonai Yeshua Ha-Meshiach🇼🇸🇮🇱
That's my uncle he come to say with us in otara back in the good old days 🤘
Love watching this video of families working hard in taro plantation
Awesome video thank you for uploading video GB.
Thanks for this video. Man, eneliko is lē mafs! 🤣🤣 ua kakau ga pomu 😂 😂 makuai lelei loga uso laikiki. Thanks Faleoo!
😂😂😂 ga la! Appreciate the support fam
The fai maumauga is usually the most humble .. As for eneliko.. ova le mafs lol!
@@maysauolefale4894 right?!?! I wonder if these people are still alive ae sei show ia Ene aga amio le mafs 😂 😂 jks.
Because he was police he think he is kama mamafs
wow this was a neat video thanx....luv to see more. Nearly got teary eyed watching this. Is there a follow up on the couple living in nz?
When the little brother apologised for his big bro got me 😢
Would be nice to have follow up on the then young Aiga
Eneliko was so disrespectful to her parents.
He doesn't even respect his own father.
Yes! He was a bad acting husband she should have divorce him. He even had the nerve to consider using his police power to force her to go, and not send any money to her parenrs. Makuaʻi le mafaufau ia
@@tasilua1051 exactly, I wonder where they are now. He sounds and looks abusive too.
@@isaialeuila9327 im almost sure he beat her....
He probably went to NZ and was fai fai mea there. Poor Marietta and her parents.
Eneliko was acting very seflish to his wife he wasnt thinking of her only himself and his parents, he also acted like she was below him, i hate kama mamafa attitude like that, i hope he treated her well, he was lucky her parents even deal with him
My brothers and sisters please know our island is peace n not pain western life is not best for us stay home live off the land and if your away come back to tend the land of your family
That was the fastest buses ever!! 🤣👍 cheeeehhhuuuu!!! Alofa atu my samoan brothers and sisters!!!
Wow 1983 my first year in Avele College.Great memories.
A great school
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This singer who said his voice is like Jim Reeves.. Se aua man
Ua sa'o le mafaufau a le tama. If he fasi his wife i wouldn't want him to take my daughter either
Just Lovely
I only obey my parents. If you want someone to obey you…then you better talk to your children🤦🏽♀️🤷🏻♀️
Thanks for sharing where is part 2
waht a video!! Any updates with this family?
Back when most people back home we’re not over weight. Damn this western food…but I love to eat it…
This video gets me teary-eyed, but somebody need to ene that in America you can get new sets of parents 3 to 6 months..just a thought..😅😅
I goo nu shillan choin king kobra can.
Kalofa e, magaia le siufofoga a Jim Reeves 💗
Very hard to choose between parents and husband.
Faafetai ile toe faasoa mai o lenei video e ao pea lava ona tatou manatua ai aso ua alu,ao taumafai nai matua e omai i Niusila aua se lumanai o nai o tatou aiga,pei ole umu luau,taro,ulu,e fai ma oso ile aiga ole a faamautu iai,ose vaaiga e manatua ile taimi ole a faamavae ai,ona e faigata mafutaga motusia matua ma tatou aiga,e savavali ile vaalele ae talotalo atu,ma loimata maligi le mafai ona galo,aso ole mativa sa tatou ola mai ai,aemaise ole toe faamanatu mai ole video,ia tatou toe tepa iai taimi ole soifuaga maualalo sa iai nai o tatou aiga,lea ua faaeaina ile lasi o faamanuiaga isi o tatou atunuu pele o Samoa.Aemaise ole faigamalo ua tulai mai aua se manuia o Samoa GB 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺❤❤❤
Was this dude creeping on a school girl when he was a leoleo? And then he marries the ali'i's daughter and he ends up being an egg and so the ali'i fasi's him. Lol.
Any update of the coupe and their family?
they didnt stay together.
Okay I'm stoned right now, but didn't they have a baby? So why is it just the two of them waving?? Oka, fea le pepe? Omg!? Maybe a relative is going with them and is carrying the baby?
Lol for slum sam he good at english ian even that good back then
O le olaga o Samoa,e manaia tele lava...
those born in Samoa wanting to come to cold NZ when us Kiwi born want to leave and go to Australia
Nz is where all the samoans went to at the start . Now its between nz or Australia
They should have stayed over there!! Look at them now 🥴
@@DatBxtchJ4y so what look at the raros too
Beautiful memory of our old market 😂❤❤
Se malo Jim Reeves!! Ha! Ha! Koe aumai seisi fagu mo Jim Reeves!
No tattoos on arms chest and that, only Matai chiefs that's the way it should be.
Eneliko is weak hearted
Oka se fia kama mamafa o Ene. Kalosia o loo ua iai se suiga o le kgk. Kalofa si koeaiga ua maligi ona laufofoga.
God bless you all , Jesus loves you all only he can save u repent and turn from your sins and accept Jesus as Lord and saviour and you will be saved. He is the only way to eternal life in heaven once you pass away its too late . ...
0:31 ia gale🤣
Ehhh se malo Ene 😂😂😂
Any family members here?
Did she say toleafoa?
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They don't make good women like that anymore
E lelei pe ana tautala i le gagana Samoa, aua e mafai lava ona faaliliu i le gagana faaperetania. Faafetai mo lenei ata ua faasoa mai i tagata Samoa i Aotearoa ma nisi atunuu mamao.
Na gata le vaai ia Eneliko ma le aiga poo se mea i le 10 tausaga talu, poo se mea o le 2012 i Onehunga Auckland ae le mailoa iai i lenei taimi poo fea ua iai nei.
Po o silafia e se isi se mea o iai le teine o loo siva i faiga siva o loo fai i le mea o loo dai ai le voli. O le afafine o le fesoasoani Katoliko ma o Telesia lona suafa. Fia iloa iai se faamatalaga poo fea o iai i nei aso.
Did eneliko become a police officer in nz
@@nutsauce8351 no he didnt
Levi Sale’imoa I knew it!
E te le faia Lau amio le na na faia i SAmoa i NZ. You can not bully a woman, you cannot beat your wife anywhere anytime in NZ!!!!!! Because if you do that, you will be in PRISON. Believe me!!! So you better learnt and remember Samoa is NOT NZ. E ese SAMOA, ese NZ......
O LA'U VAAI MA LAU FAALOGO, E LE LELEI UIGA MALE AMIO A EGELIKO. E LE FAAALOALO I MAKUA O LAGA AVA. E LE ILOA FOI KAUKALA FAAALOALO I MAKUA OLE FAFIGE. E LE IU MAGUIA SE KAGAKA E FAAMAUALUGA OGA UIGA. O KAKOU UMA LAVA, A O LEI OO ILE FAI KOALUA, UA UMA OGA AOAO LELEI E MAKUA ILE VA MALE AIGA AE MAISE LAVA LE VA MA MAKUA O LOKA KOALUA. AUA E FAI E FAGAU AE KAUVALEA AI MAKUA, AI LOGA GA AOAIA.. 👎👎👎
I agree with you.
Saʻo lava oe! Ua ova le fia mimita