Chapter 14: Education for Choice
Summary:
In this chapter the author talks about some of the struggles of the adolescent girl in our own society. She describes the choices that are available and how they are clouded by the American theory of endless possibilities. The parents must teach their children one of many ways to live life where the Samoan culture knows only one way.
Discussion:
I thought an interesting thing Mead said was some things an adolescent has to choose between can either win the approval of her family or the approval of her peers but not really both. This just helps emphasize how there are many different choices adolescents can make in our society but in Samoan culture there is a standard that is known and the children don't really know any better than that.
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