The Samoan example mainly shows that expectations of boys and girls are

1. The Samoan example is set beside a small town in Madhya Pradesh in the 1960s. 2. Ways of growing up differ a great deal from place to place. 3. So roles are not the same everywhere, which rules out the claim that they are identical or fixed by nature. _Source: NCERT Class 7 Social and Political Life, Growing up as Boys and Girls, introduction_