Historical Anthropology of the White, Native, and Half 2

The Decolonization of Western Samoa

Abstract

After WWI, Western Samoa was put under the trusteeship of New Zealand, and almost all the racial strategy of Germans was adopted by the New Zealand colonial government. It is clear that the racial categorization involved a lot of social factors, while the physical factors were not necessarily identified with the categorization. Nevertheless, it was the racial categorization that constituted colonial Samoa, although it became very important to create a homogeneous nation to be independent.