O le mea moni e lua Cods Cods. Tasi Cape Cod o se turisi Mekah. O se nofoaga o 'aiga lelei, iʻa ma chips, fale faʻafiafia i fafo, ma fale mananaia e le amanaʻia le sami. Lenei o le Cape Cod faʻatumuina i le alofa fale ma fale ma o se nofoaga sili ona lelei ata e avea ma pito i tua mo le tele o Hollywood ata tifaga. Lenei o le Cape Cod o le mauoa, faia lauiloa e le aiga o John F.Kennedy ma miti. O se avanoa tatala faʻatumuina ma tagata mai setete uma, tuʻuga, lotu, ma feusuaʻiga o latou tagata asiasi mai e taaalo ma fiafia i lona aganuu ma masani matagofie. Lenei o le Cape Cod o tusitala, tusisolo, ma tusiata.
Ae o loʻo i ai le lona lua Cape Cod. Lenei Cape Cod o se laueleele o loʻo faʻataʻalise ma vave tautala ai Igilisi ma le faʻaigoa o Egelani Fou o loʻo faʻatusalia se faitau aofai o tagata e nonofo latalata ane ma le sami. Lenei o se laueleele e malamalama o le sami uma foaʻi ma aveina ma o le North Atlantic e mafai ona malulu ma le faʻamagalo. O ana faifaiva e maua a latou mea ola mai le sami, ma o le tele o taimi e tatau ona alu i le sami ae le toe foi mai.
I totonu o se lalolagi faʻatinoina, o le faifaiva masani faʻatusalia le taimi ua tuanaʻi, o se taimi ua tuanaʻi e tatau ona tauva ma le taimi nei faʻatumuina i le ogatotonu-vasega turisi e sailia le taimi ua tuanaʻi, ae i le sailiga o le taimi ua tuanaʻi foi lamatia lona ola aganuu. Faʻafefea ona fausia le modus vivendi o le lumanaʻi o le tele lava o se aganuu, faʻaletino, tamaoaiga, ma siʻosiʻomaga luitau. O tuanaʻi ma taimi nei e manaʻomia e le tasi le isi i se siva uiga ese "Malthusian" o le olaga ma le oti, temokalasi, ma le au maualuluga.
E ui lava i luitau, e leai se masalosalo o Cape Cod e aulelei. O fale o tagata mauoa e lapoʻa ma agalelei ma faʻamanatu atu i le tagata pasi ane i le iai i totonu o fale faʻatoʻaga talaʻi "saute" faʻatutuina i le gagana Peretania i tausaga ua mavae, ae o latou lumafale e vaʻai i le sami. O loʻo i ai pea le faʻafiafiaina o taulaga tutotonu, ma o latou faleʻoloa ua faʻatumuina i mea uma mai le taimi e tasi o penny "penny" i ofu mananaia o tamaʻitaʻi ma mai upega fagota i mea faigaluega.
Lenei faʻapisinisi 'eseʻese toe atagia mai ai le mea moni o loʻo iai lua Cods Cods nonofo felataʻi a itiiti mai mo ni nai masina mafanafana i tausaga taʻitasi. Ona mou atu lea o le taumafanafana i le mea ua taʻua e tagata o le “taumafanafana a Initia.” O lenei o se umi ma mamalu tautoulu lea o le laau fausiaina se "symphony o laulaau" seti faasaga i tua o se malulu efuefu sami. A o faasolo ina maalili o le ea, ua taunuʻu mai le kiona, ua o turisi, ua amata ona toe feala mai nuʻu fia momoe mai a latou faʻamoega, ma ua toe feola mai le Cape Cod o taimi ua tuanaʻi.
I lau malaga malaga, o fea Cape Cod e te filifilia e te asia?
OA MEA E AVEA MAI LENEI TUSI:
- This Cape Cod is a land where the brisk and rapidly-spoken English pronounced with a New England accent symbolizes a population that lives by and from the sea.
- In an industrialized world, the classical fisherman represents the past, a past that must compete with a present filled with middle-class tourism which seeks the past, but in pursuit of the past also endanger its cultural survival.
- The homes of the rich are large and gracious and remind the passer-by of being in mythical “southern” plantation homes set in the English countryside of yesteryear, yet with their front lawns overlooking the sea.