Working, selling produce, having businesses, money remitted from families overseas, etc
Exports, and especially remittances from families who work overseas, and who send back money to their families back home to pay for everything and anything.
Through exports, and also through remittances from family members who live and work overseas, and who contribute still to the aiga (family) back in Samoa for living expenses, etc.
American Samoa uses the American dollar and cent; and Samoa uses Tala (dollar) and sene (cent).
Working and exporting
by flighting overseas to get the money from the bank
it is called western Samoa because Samoa is divided into two parts, American Samoa and western Samoa. After colonialism came to Samoa, America took control of Eastern Samoa which adapted the name "American Samoa". While Germany (and later NZ) took control of Western Samoa, who then took on the name "Western Samoa". No called SAMOA. The nation dropped the "western" in 1997.
Previous names: * Samoa ~ 1900-1914 * Western Samoa ~ 1914-1997 * Samoa ~ 1997-present
American Samoa is a Trust Territory of the US, not Samoa, which was formerly Western Samoa.
Before July 1997, Samoa was known as Western Samoa.
It used to be one whole country. Samoa. Until world war I when the US occupied American Samoa for its naval base in Pago Pago, and Western Samoa was occupied by Germany, and then NZ. Now, Samoa (no longer called Western Samoa) is an independent country, whereas American Samoa is still a US territory (but is governed by Samoan representatives and a Samoan Governor). So now there is American Samoa and Samoa.
American Samoa and Western Samoa (now known as Samoa).
Can you make sense? Samoa's a country, and the US got American Samoa from the country of [Actual] Samoa, maybe?Eastern Samoa and Western Samoa (as they were referred to in colonial times) were all one country to begin with. During the 1st world war, America occupied American Samoa and Germany occupied Western Samoa. So I suppose you're right 187baby, the US got (part) of Samoa from Samoa.
· American Samoa:Tutuila, Ofu-Olosega, and Ta'ū. Western Samoa :Savaii upolu
If a family member from overseas wanted to send money to Samoa they would simply use a money transfer service that has offices in Samoa. The most common is Western Union as it services a large number of countries.
Western Samoa was the colonial name for Samoa, which is an independent country separate from the US territory of American Samoa. The population of Samoa in early 2012 was estimated at 183,000.
Western Samoa Labour Party was created in 1993.