From Tongan Villages to American Suburbs written by author and Anthropologist Cathy A. Small begins in 1981 with a field trip to Tonga. Small's initial study was the difference between Western and Tongan ways. The study transforms into the history and migration of a South Pacific Island kingdom named Tonga. In the first year of her study, 1981, she seeks advise from a volunteer she meets in town. The volunteer offers some wise advise as well as …
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…what it was like to be a Tongan American. One families journey from Tonga to American does not reflect the entire Tongan experience. I realize that in the Ethographic process you are to immerse yourself into a culture for a true understanding, but to write a book on what it was like to be a Tongan American more data was needed. Although I thoroughly enjoyed the book, I felt it fell short of its goal.