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Speaking for myself, I would like to see greater adoption of the Hawaiian culture within Hawaiian community development. As it stands now... there is very little recognizable influences short of some street names and a couple plaques and a statute or two here and there. I see just as much influence here from other cultures as I do from Hawaiian influences and in some cases more from other cultures. The tsunami zone park in Hilo, I see Japanese cultural influences abound. I won't even go into all the western influence adoptions.
Does anyone else see this?
When do these things get corrected?
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" Focusing on the erosion of solidarity or culture can also provide insight into the lack of progress or the presence of obstacles impeding existing development efforts."
Can that be applied here?
"Community development planners and practitioners need to understand and learn to capitalize on the strengths of community solidarity and culture."
Interesting statement.
" Continuing to ignore culture's critical role will constrain development efforts, rendering them little more than short-term solutions for endemic community issues and needs."
That's certainly true.
With all this sustainability talk, how much has panned out as beneficial? The deeper issues with regard to problems in "paradise" stem from a deeper issue of overlooking cultural development. IMO
From the perspective of architecture, one does not design a home to reflect multiple styles of architecture combined and come up with peaceful cohesion in harmony within the end product. You end up walking through a state of confusion from one room to the next. Poorly applied half hazard mixed cultural community development yields similar results. There is no harmony within the whole.
We have a native culture here, why isn't it honored within our community development projects?
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These people seem to be intent on retaining an idyllic pre-contact lifestyle:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnew...sland.html
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not many 'Puna Boys' or 'Uncles' would choose to go and live a 24/7 'stone age' animal-like lifestyle again...
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stopping and pooping in middle of streets/trails w/o giving thought to others
family bonding time ie picking lice from each others hair and cheerfully offering it to the owner before consuming it themselves, monkey-like (and purposely never getting hair wet in ocean so the lice colony doesnt die)
screwing (sex) and laughing about it in front of your own offspring and trying to get them (keiki) to mimic them doing this, and sometimes actually participating...
many more true pre1819 Hawaiian lifestyle facts can be easily read about (and mimmiced/practiced today)... or even a bit after the Kapu system was abolished as these 3 well known examples (above) of everyday life were noted in detail in Wm Ellis' journal written in 1823 when he and others traveled around 'Owhyhee' (Hawaii/Big Island, mainly Hilo area)
aloha
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save our indigenous and endemic Hawaiian Plants... learn about them, grow them, and plant them on your property, ....instead of all that invasive non-native garbage I see in most yards... aloha
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save our indigenous and endemic Hawaiian Plants... learn about them, grow them, and plant them on your property, ....instead of all that invasive non-native garbage I see in most yards... aloha
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