Genocide by demographics is a common historical method. How can I celebrate Hawaii? If when in Rome do as Romans applies, what is important to know about not being a jerk? Native Hawaiian's are from somewhere else originally, they did not evolve from the island sand. The native Americans came across the land bridge from eastern Russia, these people were from Asia. I'm tired of hearing how the white Europeans took the land from these native people, they were not native, they just migrated earlier.
They fought with other tribes just as all cultures have through history and many have oral histories celebrating the total destruction of other tribes. So basically white Europeans came to the America's and took it over from those that originally settled here.
They were able to this because they had better technology especially in weapons of war. The natives in Hawaii are no different, they lost the place they settled to a more advanced people. This is not new. It has been going on since man has been around, one civilization taking over another. Greece was occupied by Turkey for over years, yes, the cradle of western democracy ruled by the Turks.
England ruled by Rome, Rome ruled a lot of territory, don't forget the Austrian's rule of a huge part of Europe. Midwesterners don't blame Mexicans and Muslims, people from the mid west and the south believe in this little thing called the law.
People here illegally should be deported, they are criminals, they are here illegally, doesn't matter what country they are from. Any Muslim that breaks our laws by putting church law or views ahead of the laws of this country should be arrested and put on trial, not for being Muslim but for breaking the law.
All religions, countries and races of people at one time or more in history have been shafted, enslaved, tortured and killed by some other people.
Grow up and get over it, just because you're born somewhere doesn't make it yours. Don't like tourist, buy up the resorts and close them down, can't afford to live there, then move or get a better job. It's not this white Europeans fault, I grew up in a sharecroppers shack in Alabama, if I can do it so can you.
Mankind has not changed since we have existed, the strong conquer the weak and take what they had, and as far as I can tell it looks like that is still the status quo. Not saying that it's right or fair but it is a fact.
The "average midwestern Trump supporter" is a stereotype like any other. I suspect you've never spent a significant amount of time in the Midwest. You had me until you insulted midwestern Trump supporters.
Now, I see you're just a left coast elitist, who doesn't know the difference between "you're " shit and "your" shit. BTW, "howlie" is haole, dbag. I was sitting on a local beach watching a mom and dad with their six month old on a surf board when another woman with a one year old sat near me I said no I live in CA She said there is a lot of mixed blood on the islands now and that I really did blend in.
So, maybe the trick is to not wear makeup, pull hair back, wear casual clothes and not try to be citified. I think what gave me away as a tourist then was the white rental car that looked like all the other rental cars I agreed with your statement until you said "It is a part of the USA, don't blame us for becoming a state. They stepped right into our island and forced Queen Lili'uokalani to give them the islands. Before you make a false statement, check your facts. Let me tell you Hawaii is racist and localist.
People are elbow to elbow here. The close quarters makes it more difficult not to notice or react to racist threats or comments, or ignore them altogether.
Threats or divisive comments to other people are never okay. Some locals treat others badly because they think they can or they should. Hawaii is not paradise. And it refuses to modernize itself because with any racism comes with a distrust of growth and evolution I came here and had NO idea. I never came here and had it in my mind that there would be racism. I come here in total respect and I get told to go back where I came from. Never knew what a minority or racism had felt like before I feel the need to clarify that being white definitely does not exempt you from hatred by other whites.
It's not that racists only treat other races badly, racists are simply insecure bullies and haters and they treat everyone with disrespect, including their own race, their own families, their own land. The vast majority of racism I experienced in many, many years of living in Hawaii was from other whites! Many white people living in Hawaii absolutely detest any other white person who they think could embarrass them, they are extremely insecure!
You don't know jack. You just making excuses for being a racist. Just cop to it. Lived both places. The mainland has so much less racism. BTW, I'm black. I feel sorry for the whites that have to live with you people. Never felt sorry for them before I live in Hawaii.
Even Obama wrote a little about it in his first book. You people need to enter the twenty first century. I came over here for school a year ago. I agree with the guy above that it is has definitely showed me how people of color feel on the mainland so in a way it is humbling I guess. I have noticed that the more I show respect to others and the land and try to live with the culture, not stuck in my culture and old ways, then I recieve respect back.
Millennials are changing the nation than what it was before. Also, I ended up taking a Hawaiian language and culture class when I moved here. I think this is so important for anyone moving here or even visiting. Honestly it opened my eyes to a lot of things, personally too. Finally someone who understands the Hawaiian situation. Very well written, and thought out.
I agree with all of your thoughts. I never lost anything in Hawaii anyway and I have no desire to visit there. My grandparents who moved to the US from Mexico have experienced racism to this day, and I have always hated the idea of people hating others because of their appearance or what kind of person they assume they are. I have lighter skin than my grandmother and am white passing, so I know why I get the stares in Maui. The mentality on the island sucks though.
The beaches and views are incredible in California, and I loved working at a place where I got to meet tons of tourists. People travel to experience and immerse themselves in other cultures.
Everyone has their share of dumb people who disrespect where they go, but I feel like you should give the good people a chance. Hawaiians were are war with each other long before any one showed up. The Tall Giants that showed up and took power and took control by brutal murder were Polynesians.
Just like the Tongans and Samoans. Just like the Chinese and Japanese, just like the Native American tribes. They ate each other, took slaves, and Conquered. So What I have to say about all your Hate?
Why doesn't Kamehameha Trust fix all your Complaints. They have Billions maybe trillions of dollars??? Heres a tip. When you lift your hand to point your finger, there's three of your own fingers pointing right back at you.
I'm not pointing any fingers but as a Hawaiian I do agree with all minus one. Number 4 I don't mind that one. It common indecency for a person to not be wearing at least a shirt and underwear. But all do prove a point that Americans have been ruining this culture. Now because I wasn't born in Hawaii I can't say as much as people born there. The whole article is absurd. Anyone who has visited for an extended period or lived there I lived on Oahu for 5 years has experienced some sort of misguided racism.
Stop taking yourself so seriously. BTW, pretty sure the article was written by a white person, probably one of the ones who goes to Hawaii, takes a few surf lessons and starts speaking pidgen.
All countries have their problems. All countries have had slaves and some still do. It seems like to me the USA has taken the brunt of all of it. We are people just like everyone else. Hawaii blames us for all their woes. Well u could have had Germany,China, Japan, or maybe Russia do the same thing. Do you people really think you would have been better off. Do you actually think you would have had just days of leisure laying on the beach and surfing everyday. Or weaving baskets geez get over it.
Your lives will be a lot better. It is like the black people. They blame the white people for everything. Everyone needs to get over the past and live together. I love all nationalities. I have a half black granddaughterand a half Vietnamese grandson. I love it. I adore them.
Cindy, I agree with you. I have European and Asian mix I get discriminated all the time but I don't care knowing I am a human being just like everybody else. Cindy, you and your comment is saturated with ignorance. Blacks DON'T blame white people for everything! You white people are still acting like savages and animals towards everyone non-white - especially with this orange bigot in the White House.
It's easy to say "get over the past" when you haven't experienced racism on a daily basis. People like you disgust me! The next time a man rapes a woman, why don't you tell the woman, "it's in the past get over it". A genuine question here: I am of Chinese descent, born and raised in Southern California and have traveled to the. Hawaiian islands ever since I was young. I never noticed until way later that locals and Hawaiians on all the islands most all think I am a local.
I tan super easily and while I have some nontraditional but culturally inspired freestyle tattoos done by a Hawaiian artist in Maui who knew my background, I was always mistaken for local, with or without tattoos. When I honestly inform them that I am not local, people seem genuinely upset. They're never rude by any means but their disappointment ranges from genuine disappointment to outright annoyance. I was wondering if anyone could help she'd light on why they're unhappy to learn I am not local when they were certain I am?
Thank you kindly! I think your "culturally inspired tattoos" are probably a great example of cultural appropriation and as a Hawaiian with Hawaiian blood, learning that you're not in fact Hawaiian but have appropriated our culture in the form of tattoos, would annoy me. There is nothing wrong with culturally inspired art in my opinion because it is a form of cultural appreciation. Culture appropriation is the biggest joke in the world!
The world feeds off of US culture and trends. I wish people would stop stealing my Scandinavian culture with all of their skiing! This might be one of the most ignorant paragraph I have read, in an entire column including the original article and all the off the wall responses.
I guess Harley Davidson club members should be offended every time someone gets a Harley or any motorcycle tattoo. I have been to over 50 countries and Hawaii is the most racist, and localist, place I have ever been.
That is the most bizarre part of racism in Hawaii, and it seems much more similar to localism in surf culture. You will hear local white surfers calling out visiting white surfers for not being 'Hawaiian'. You will see a local Filipino cashier ignoring a Filipino customer asking for travel tips. A Japanese tourist asking for directions from a Japanese bus driver being told rudely in Pidgin they can't help. So it is mostly localism and not racism. It is a contest of who has been there the longest and who can pretend to be the most 'Hawaiian'.
Residents are desperate to prove how non-tourist they are, and this insecurity is what results in all the hateful actions we see posted here. A white tourist is easiest to spot so they receive the most hate, and white residents feel the most insecurity and go to the greatest lengths to fit in. A high end resort tourist would never notice these issues. The employees they deal with are being paid extra to hide this attitude.
Interestingly you'll find the exact opposite attitude in countries that were once US territories that never became states. For example in the Philippines, another group of beautiful tropical islands in the Pacific, you never hear people bragging about how long they have lived there, name dropping towns with little tourism, or about how much local knowledge they have.
If you tried to speak Tagalog they would not ridicule your accent, they would encourage and teach you. They would not tell you to go back to your country, or to stay in the touristy areas, they would beg you to stay, to help them practice English, and want to learn about where you came from. They would take you to less traveled areas, show you the hidden gems, take you to meet their families.
In the Philippines you can be proud to be foreign. What I have found is that I too feel that burning sense of annoyance towards other tourists. Not just whites but all others. Where are the Natives working if all these jobs are being given to all others? My daughter who is half white and half poly will probably experience the prejudice that I do not but in that same effect she will have a way better chance then we did because she looks so white.
She is super proud of her poly side and never acknowledges her white side as she so much wants to be like me. Because she is well travelled to other Polynesian countries, she, at 6 years old asks constantly where the real natives are?
Why the beaches at the hotels are weird and not real with shells and wildlife I fully concur with you. I was stationed in the Philippines in the navy. In Alongapo I saw the typical hustlers that I saw in any city that caters to military people. But if you got out in the country, the people were very friendly. I once spent a weekend in Manila, and it was like being in a lot of cities in America. I stayed with Philippino family and I was treated like a king.
I also spent time in Hawaii, and the attitude of the locals was palpable. I went to Oahu and Maui recently. Was harassed at two surf spots. By locals I'm a surfer I get it, it was racial based, but I now get it.
I was shaken and quite frankly pissed off. Hawaii should be granted complete sovereignty, and it is up to the USA to make this right. It is unacceptable what happened, and why one earth are we not taught this is school? To the Hawaiins Polynesian Hawaiin's. My heart bleeds with you, and my support is with your efforts for justice.
Whether or not Hawaii was legally acquired, that particular ship has already sailed. Hawaii is now part of the United States and it has been for nearly 60 years. The standard of living would plummet - Tourism and the military are the backbones of the Hawaiian economy, An independent Hawaii could see one curtailed and the other completely dry up or worse renegotiate its deals at far lower rates due to the fact that Hawaii would be in no position to do otherwise.
A large portion of the population would leave - The benefits of dingus citizens would be far more appealing to many Hawaiians than would be a speculative venture as being the citizens of a newly minted nation. The population drop and brain drain on the island would likely reach critical proportions. How would this be addressed? Prices would be increased - The prices in Hawaii, while higher than on the mainland US are actually subsidized to be somewhat lower than they would be in an independent nation.
Given the fact all of the fuel, the majority of the foodstuffs and all of the building materials would have to be imported into the newly minted nation, the costs of doing this without the current subsidies would be staggering. How would this be taken care of? The few who do not, would quickly find that their dreams about an independent Hawaii would quickly run into the harsh realities of a modern world. To all who comment here. I'm a bit late to this, but just got back from my first trip Oahu and Maui.
I was and am the quintessential surfing tourist. I understand localism, respect, humbleness and staying out of the frame. I knew of the wrath I would encounter for my white skin and asian wife, and thought I was well prepared, how wrong was I.
As further qualification, I frequently surf breaks that are secret spots or on Australian Aboriginal reserves, I know the protocol and the sensitivity. Also, I have travelled and lived all over the world, mostly in North East Asia. But also Micronesia, and Polynesia.
On top of all this I am Jewish by decent. I secular in practice. I'm only too aware of casual racism. Hawaii was and is the most outwardly racist place I have ever been too.
Violently racist. It is just wrong. There is no excuse. I had no issues there. But I stopped at spots surfed by locals, no camera, no intention of stepping in the water. But on each of the two occasions I'm a fast learner , I have never felt so intimated in my entire life.
My wife was shaken up bad, second time I went alone. Same result, side of my car kicked in. Then there was stopping in small towns I'm sure most of those who leveled these comments were no more Hawaiin than I am by DNA, but this makes no difference.
This was appalling. And is this mob rule mentality going to change anything anyway? So, as a leading industry executive, I will steer clear of Hawaii. Never again. This is not everyday localism. This is ultra nationalist hate crime. If these people were white that be the KKK on steriods Where else on in the world could this be condoned?
And where else in the USA? So, I haven't read most of the above comments, but this was my experience. Hope ot is isolated but I know it isn't and as for the US government, your tout Hawaii as a holiday destination, people travel from all over the world to be there, get this law and order and political issue corrected, it is not reasonable to have people exposed to your inability to settle passed grievances.
I do understand where you are coming from. I am native Hawaiian myself and do not hate white people most of us native Hawaiians do not hate you but locals different might. You need to understand the history of oppression from your people against ours and realize you are guest so act like it, leave our traditions alone.
To address the racism part your people stole everything from our people, killed us, took away our culture and in enslaved some of us so just remember the history. Excuse me Laakea? How do you know what Matthias Alexanderson or anyone else you've never met or otherwise "researched" for that matter knows or doesn't know? You're justifying the ill treatment he received based on something you claim he doesn't know about.
Should you receive similar treatment for not knowing about Matthias Alexanderson - would that be just? I take so much issue with the rest of your post as well, but I'll bite my tongue and just address this one point for now.
Do you think it's ok for one person or group of persons to mistreat another for no other reason than -- sorry to repeat myself -- their color, race, creed, religion, etc? But my question for you is: how does putting all this effort into fostering so much hate and resentment or maybe it's just "justification of it" in your case mitigate any of what happened?
Matthias Alexanderson isn't even a citizen of the previous Union i. With what has happened, do you honestly think you can hate or intimidate or beat or discriminate it away? There's got to be another way. The methods you seem to be justifying won't work Please see my update to my original post, I have repented. I still feel bad by the way I way treated, but I get where it is coming from.
Understand most of us have never accurately been told about the history Please read below:. I grew up there. Went to school from 3rd grade until University. Some locals do harbor a historical grievance. Ages ago Ireland had land stolen from them by the English.
Does that justify some Irish thug beating an English tourist? Should a Palestinian beat a Jew because his grandparents land was taken unjustly in Israel? Especially I ask why should a 5th grader be subjected to this nonsense? I still remember the haole experience and will never go back.
Racism and bigotry are wrong regardless. It has been like this in Hawaii for 50 years. People like you that make excuses for this racist behavior just perpetuate it. I had white neighbors who retired to Hawaii and left over antiwhite racism.
The military tell me how antiwhite racist the Hawaiians are. I went to school with Hawaiians who were chinese and japanese and they called me haole. They were no more Hawaiian than I am although they were born in Hawaii. There is supposed to be a big Phillipino population there. When I asked the military how many are actually polynesians were there they said very few pure Hawaiians with alot of political clout.
They said everything is so corrupt with the polynesian Hawaiians earning way more than anyone else in the same job. They told me all the Military spending in Hawaii is a huge amount of the economy. Agriculture is a small part of the economy with Dole the big contributor.
Tourism is a huge part of the economy. I know what the US did with the Polynesian queen was wrong. However the island is mostly populated by other interlopers, the Chinese, Japanese, and Philippino. The big winner who would move in once the US would be pushed out would be China because they have the aggressiveness, the huge population and the money now.
I'll bet the polynesians would hate Chinese domination as much if not more than they hate the US but there would be a whole lot more Chinese moving in and taking over the islands with everyone having to go through a Chinese middle man in order to conduct business.
In reality it will never be just Polynesians again because you can't repeat the past. There are too few Polynesians left. Glad I don't live there. I visited the islands in the past and loved it then over 20 years ago. I would like to see tourism drop to the islands so these arrogant pricks get their just deserts.
Less money because they haven't developed an economy that isn't built around tourism while they trash the tourists who bring income into their island. They just blame the white man for all their woes.
This island is just like Japan with exorbitant real estate prices because there is less real estate available on an island and not because the whites oppress them. Japan is alot more populated than Hawaii. The Japanese aren't blaming their declining ecology on the whites like the Hawaiians are. The Japanese, unlike the Hawaiians have developed an economy independent of tourism. The Hawaiians don't have manufacturing which means everything has to be imported at huge cost just like Australia another island nation with deficiant manufacturing.
I would love to see all industrialized nations pull out of Hawaii and charge them tarriffs so all the electrical goods the islanders have been accustomed to are no longer affordable to these arrogant Hawaiians who can just bitch about their entitlement and how the white man has oppressed them long after the whites have left.
Then they will be invaded by the Chinese and it will become Chinese territory. It would sever them right. There won't be any polynesian Hawaiians left as everyone will be Chinese. You can count on it.
All non hawaiian imigrants you can blame the first big buisness men that brought them in to work the plantations how else would they be in Hawaii and thats how you get the different blood quantums. So sad how ignorant people can be Hawaiians didnt have ships to bring in immigrants. The wonder why locals dislike outsiders changing the culture.
I am a 10th generation Hawaiian and yes we still passdown our land that we have owned for centuries and we love our aina and it still looks like old hawaii there not tainted. We still farm our own food fish in the ocean and live off the land whats left of it. So yea there are still a few of us left in Hawaii that are proud of what we own and keep our culture. What happened to Africa, and the indians it wasnt us hawaiians that killed raped and pillaged.
Look in the mirror people. Becomming a state was not our choice after not getting hawaii as the 49th they got Alaska the brought military to vote in Hawaii to make it a state it was not our choice. It would also be hard to just suddenly change our entire system due to our history with the US since US rivals like China would want to move in and take over both to spite the US and get a strategic military location. At the same time, we're not the same as Japan. In general, both in terms of population and politics, "the whites" generally affect Japan less, so it's hard to directly compare them.
Like you mentioned, Japan has a larger population, so they are able to produce more on their own. But much more significantly, they are their own country, so they can shift their economy to best serve themselves much easier than a state can. It's not like we could push out the US military while we are still part of the US and if we did we'd likely get targeted by some of the US's rivals immediately afterward.
In fact, the highest-paid workers are actually still White, even though there has always been an Asian majority.
But I think most Hawaiians don't blame "the whites" for everything, most blame the current systems in place more than anything else especially local ones run by local people - more often than not non-white local people - not the US federal government , and many of us recognize that we have to do more ourselves to fix this.
Maybe COVID will force us to do this, although this is just as terrible and extreme of a situation as the hypothetical one you proposed perhaps moreso since the whole world is being affected. This article made me upset. I understand the reasoning behind why the Hawaiian people are angry I feel for the Hawaiian people. My husband once lived in PR and wanted to experience the islands of Hawaii. We didn't come here to go to tourist shops with the same cheap fake merchandise similar to things sold all along our coast of California We came to Kauai to quietly and respectfully explore.
To experience Waimea canyon, swim in Queen's Bath and off grid streams up in the mountains, go on countless hikes, see the wet caves, the gardens, the hell of a coast line that puts Big Sur, SD, SB to shame! We live in California and LOVE our home because we love the mountains and the beaches, sunshine, rain, snow National Parks etc--and I personally enjoy our crisp cold air we get on the coast.
We came to Hawaii to experience more of this beautiful planet we ALL share. So yeah it's rude for people that don't even know us to be jerks for no reason--espeically since we are genuinely enamored by your culture and educated ourselves prior to coming. Trust me when I say it pissed me off too to see a bunch of tacky sorry to offend anyone but I wasn't going to comment, because as a native I do recognize the racism and localism on these islands and I don't feel any comment on that in this forum will do any good, but I just wanted to make one point about rudeness.
Just plain rudeness. Dirty looks and sneers and shortness in customer service or just plain rude people you meet on the street.
I'm willing to bet every commenter on here has encountered rudeness like that in their own hometowns.
And I'm also willing to bet that most can easily brush this off knowing that everyone has a bad day sometimes and that some people are just rude people. What annoys me is the attitude that, since you bought the ticket over here, everyone who resides here is obligated to be super nice and ensure that you have a great experience every moment of your trip.
I worked at a coffee shop and every day did my best to provide kind customer service. Except that one day. When awful things were happening in my life that didn't leave me with enough energy to give directions and correct pronunciations and offer tips on nice places to visit, all with a smile on my face.
Did I ever see that man again? Did he assume that that one bad day was a representative of my customer service skills and even my character as a human being? No one who lives their life here has enough energy to make it their priority to make sure that the 7 days out of your whole life you chose to come here were absolutely perfect for you and every single other visitor.
Especially considering the fact that visitors outnumber residents by around 12 to 1. That's just too many to please.. Well put. I have visited last November, went to Big Island and Oahu. Indeed, I felt not welcome at all by the native folks. It was the worst holiday of my life and I came in to respectfully learn about the Islands and the their cultural heritage.
Everywhere I went I got nothing but ignorant looks at best. The Hawaiann folks are unfriendly, ignorant and very hatefull towards whites. The are absolute racists. I just wanted to leave after a week but had to stay for two because of my flights to Europe. While the US has formally apologised for their role in the overthrow of the Kingdom - a Congressional resolution admitted as much - there's been no word from the US government about whether the annexation was legal.
The court agreed to hear the case but ultimately made no ruling, saying it could not even consider the issue because "the United States of America is not a party to the proceedings and has not consented to them". Sai is also among those who believe that race or ancestry has no place in a Hawaiian bid to be free of the US. The Hawaiian Kingdom was a multi-ethnic government, and that's how it should remain, he says, something that wouldn't happen under federal recognition.
What everyone can agree on is the hurt done to Native Hawaiians. Peter Apo says he spent almost half of his 75 years "not knowing who the hell I was". He's now one of the trustees of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, a state agency. By the time of the overthrow in , the Hawaiian population had gone from at least , to less than 40, people - all in the space of a century, in part because of diseases introduced into the islands. After annexation, students were not allowed to speak Hawaiian in school, and the language almost died out as a result.
Kahoolawe, an island considered spiritually important to Hawaiians, was used as test-bombing site by the US army until the s. Unexploded ordnance still remains on the island even after a clean-up attempt. And today, many health indicators for Native Hawaiians are the worst of all the ethnic groups in Hawai'i. McGregor says the previous generation of Hawaiian activists struggled for the cultural and political gains Native Hawaiians have managed so far and younger Hawaiians take it for granted.
She thinks federal recognition is needed. Joshua Lanakila Managuil, a young activist who is running for a seat on the 'aha, says he's lucky to be the product of a Native Hawaiian cultural and political renaissance, but he's worried about the ramifications of federal recognition. He points to the uneven and largely difficult situation of Native Americans. Apo has written a number of editorials calling for a native Hawaiian government for the purposes of federal recognition.
He suggests such a government could "carve out a duty free port of call", and be able to do business with other nations. But Apo says he can see where the opposition is coming from. While pro-independence Hawaiians dominated the microphones during interior department's hearings over the summer, the breakdown of the written comments was different.
The 'aha is going forward after a federal judge ruled the organisation running the election, Na'i Aupuni, was sufficiently independent of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs to make it a private election, despite receiving funds from the agency through an intermediary. Once elected, delegates will meet for 40 days and end in April. There is division within the independence movement whether to engage with the 'aha at all, says Managuil.
He and others "are putting ourselves into the mix in order to protect the rights of our people," Managuil says. Despite Na'i Aupuni's reassurances, pro-independence Hawaiians feel that the 'aha is simply a vehicle to push federal recognition.
In the U. Annexation gave Native Hawaiians American citizenship under the protections of the 14th Amendment of the U. But Native Hawaiians did not want the citizenship. Those who witnessed the raising of the U.
Both Native Hawaiians and missionary children won—and lost—from this transition. The missionary children gained the economic benefits accompanying U. Native Hawaiians gained an American identity and citizenship—but lost their land, language, government, and culture. In the heart of the Midwest, where I grew up, it is a rhetorical question. If pressed, the answer is usually circular. The freedom and prosperity we enjoy as Americans is because we are Americans. Yet the Hawaiian people lost much in becoming part of our nation.
Some Native Hawaiians today argue for the return of national sovereignty. In the last sugar plantation closed, and young Hawaiians now seek to revive the traditional, communal taro planting on its fallow grounds.
Hawaiian scholars and their students have resurrected the Hawaiian language. While such efforts are historically and economically vital, Hawaiian residents—of all ethnicities—also take pride in another narrative: Hawaii is the first U. When I first visited the islands 25 years ago, I walked among Asian Americans—now the largest ethnic group living in the islands—as well as Hawaiian Americans, white Americans, and visitors from all over the world.
Despite the devastating losses to their population and culture, Native Hawaiians today continue to show hospitality and generosity to their fellow island residents and to those who continually visit their shores. They provide a living example of how to be an American. Please tell us your thoughts. We may edit your letter for length and clarity and publish it on our site. By continuing to use our website, you agree to our privacy and cookie policy. No paywall. No ads. No partisan hacks. Ideas journalism with a head and a heart.
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