Why?

[Momi]

I also need to straighten up things on the word aloha. It doesn't mean Hawaiians should aloha everything away. I see the word 'aloha' used by foreigners all the time to get what they want or get local people to act a certain way. That is not what aloha is about. Those days are gone. Aloha is very recipricol. There is no way to get around it.

[wyatt]

Aloha is very recipricol.

Kinda like respect.


Wyatt

[Momi]

Thanks Wyatt for helping to spread the word.

[wyatt]

No prob. Momi.

We're on this rock together.
May as well get along.

Aloha
Wyatt

[Scott_S]

Great posts Momi, by the way it looks like we might be neighbors my wife and I have a place between f and g on 6.

I don't understand this thread, there are good and bad in all races, that is all there is to it. How can any race be generalized, we are all individuals with are own traits.

Scott

[haoleboy]

I think this thread is great. It's made me reflect on my own experiences, and I will make a greater effort to not take offense at people who ask me if I am Swedish.

Aloha
Richwhiteboy

"If you don't disagree with me, how will I know I'm right?"
-- Samuel Goldwyn

[Momi]

Hey, Scott. Aloha neighbor. Yup F and 6. `O`o `a`a Rd. Whats up with the helicopters? lol! sorry for bringing it up again.

Hawaiians do get mistaken for Mexicans in CA and also get mistaken for being African in North Carolina and that doesn't make me hate the whole race of people, it's a good oppurtunity to learn about another culture. My husband grew up in CA with the Mexicans and he said he got along with everyone black, white. If they are not hurting anyone, it doesn't bother me. Usually if refering to Hawaiians I'm talking about Hawaiians with the koko (blood) but if refering to locals, I'm usually refering to all races but have melted well into the communities.

[Beachboy]

I probably need to clear the air a bit. While it is true all races have their good and bad. This place of paradise has always singled out races, whether it was to be funny ala Andy Bumatai, Rap Riplinger, or through school with such honorable days as "Kill Haole Day", or "Choke a Moke Day", or "Slap a Jap Day",etc,etc.. So whether it's right or wrong, people who grew up here tend to refer to race instead of individuals when things happen.

I understand that both the Big Island and Maui has a gret influx of Mexicans coming in. But for the most part they are workers, and they aren't bleeding the state of it's resources.

I had to laugh the other day. While at the Kea'au 'Suds n Duds' I witnessed a confrontation for a washing machine between a Micronesian women and a local women mistaken for a Haole. I say mistaken for a haole because the Micronesian women's husband had the audacity to call the women a 'stupid Haole'. Well, the stupid haole turn out to be a fair skin local 'Portagee',.....and she proceeded to rip the Micronesian man a new ***hole! Is "Haole" part of the Micronesian dialog, is it a word they have picked up here?

To make a long story short, Hawaii has always ripped into the latest group of immigrants. It seems to be the norm rather than the exception.

[aprild]

It's not only Hawaii that has ripped into the latest arriving immigrant group--this is the history of the United States of America...and probably every country in the history of the world. And isn't it very human to feel threatened by a large influx of new and very different cultures?

I think that we are all a work in progress--trying to live Jah Love.

"Please, Father, please this world we live in has faltered.
Deliver us from all this evil and pain.
God Bless the heart that loves unto his brother
Praising out your Name."

Stevie Wonder



april

[Brad W]

"Don't make me come down there." - God