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TAFESILAFAI
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"Misipouena Tagaloa "
Male
43 years old
LONG BEACH, California
United States
Last Login:
6/30/2008
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busy
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| Status: | Single | | Here for: | Networking | | Zodiac Sign: | Pisces | | Occupation: | Pastor |
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About me:
Tafesilafa'i (tah-feh-see-lah-fah-ee)
is an effort to identify meaning in their lives. Tafesilafa'i takes an already existing scaffolding, the Samoan culture and language, and examines it under the rubric of religious stewardship, inviting conversations with others. Stewardship, because we were neither given the choice of parents nor the cultures that we inherit. Therefore, we can only conclude that these givens are gifts. Our parents, ethnicity, nationality, language, heritage and culture are God-given gifts. So we ought to care for these gifts. An attempt should be made to develop and utilize these gifts to improve the communities we find ourselves in. That is the Tafesilafa'i conversation.
In essence, Tafesilafa'i is Culture informed by Theology. Culture is so pervasive in how a people develop intelligibility of the world that we would be lost without it. Simply put, culture consists of habitual responses to the world. These habitual responses collectively make a community identifiable as a discrete and separate entity. So pervasive are these habitual responses that the vast majority of them remain unexamined and completely invisible to the community as a whole. Tafesilafa'i provides a forum with which some of these cultural icons and habitual responses are named, examined and presented to the community for authentication.
Our 12th Annual Tafesilafa'i Festival celebrates the art and culture of Long Beach’s Samoan and Pacific Islander Communities. Come join us. It will be at the Aquarium of the Pacific this year.
CONGRATS TO ALL THE WINNERS AND TO EVERYONE WHO PARTICIPATED IN LAST YEARS FESTIVAL. YOU WERE GREAT!!!
BE SURE TO GET YOUR DVD NOW IN TIME FOR CHRISTMAS.
Be sure to sign up for our newsletter at www.tafesilafai.org so you'll get all the updated information about this year's festival.
BLESSINGS!!
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