Palagi

Palagi (pronounced paalangi - singular) or papaalagi (plural) is a term in Samoan culture of uncertain meaning, but sometimes used to describe foreigners or anything that does not 'belong' to Samoan culture. Tent & Geraghty (2001) comment that the origin of the Western Polynesian Papāalagi~Pālagi, and the Fijian Vāvālagi~Pāpālagi remains a matter of speculation.