01-08-2011, 09:14 AM
I'll bite.
Kama'aina doesn't have to do with "less mainlander" than someone else.
In the positive view, I think it means connecting.
if you say things like "you know where the old JC Penny's stay, thats where the Car licensing stay now". (And of course that was back two locations. The new JC Penny's building is now Macy's men/children and furnishings! haha
Or people who live in Hi acres, (you used to just say the "acres"), remember when 8 rd was only paved one lane to C Rd. And then remember when you had to pay Augie a buck, a Beer, or a bud to use his "pass through" is even newer. Now people dont even know there was a gate there. 9&F is no longer the "back of the Acres".
I think part is the changes - as the Big Island changes, if you were here before whatever change. There are many people on PunaWeb who lived here before either bypass existed. So in a few years those who moved here before Long's went in, can say "remember when the lot stay empty, before Long's"? [
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or the big one is when the waitress knows your dad, and comes into your office and knew you didnt screw something up because your dad told her you were on vacation. My DAD (??) told you, a waitress at a resturant in Hilo, that I was on vacation??? haha
We joke about the connections but it is truly kama'aina when a friend of a friend's relative's auntie knows you, and you have made enough friends so that no matter where you go on the Big Island (or Las Vegas) you run into someone you know. The connectivity is what makes the kama'aina. You have connected to the Big Island world and not just a tourist or recent transplant.
You understand that when people tell you oh the drought will end the week of the county fair, it usually does. You tell your family to not try visit the week of Merrie Monarch as they wont get a rental car and airfare is not discounted. You learn how to make a ti leaf lei. You know that a sumo is too much food unless you are a 12-15 yr old growing boy!! [] You know where they serve sumo's! And Ken's is a part of every trip to the Big Island.
You finally refer to the Big Island as home. Home is no longer where you moved from.
Kama'aina doesn't have to do with "less mainlander" than someone else.
In the positive view, I think it means connecting.
if you say things like "you know where the old JC Penny's stay, thats where the Car licensing stay now". (And of course that was back two locations. The new JC Penny's building is now Macy's men/children and furnishings! haha
Or people who live in Hi acres, (you used to just say the "acres"), remember when 8 rd was only paved one lane to C Rd. And then remember when you had to pay Augie a buck, a Beer, or a bud to use his "pass through" is even newer. Now people dont even know there was a gate there. 9&F is no longer the "back of the Acres".
I think part is the changes - as the Big Island changes, if you were here before whatever change. There are many people on PunaWeb who lived here before either bypass existed. So in a few years those who moved here before Long's went in, can say "remember when the lot stay empty, before Long's"? [
]or the big one is when the waitress knows your dad, and comes into your office and knew you didnt screw something up because your dad told her you were on vacation. My DAD (??) told you, a waitress at a resturant in Hilo, that I was on vacation??? haha
We joke about the connections but it is truly kama'aina when a friend of a friend's relative's auntie knows you, and you have made enough friends so that no matter where you go on the Big Island (or Las Vegas) you run into someone you know. The connectivity is what makes the kama'aina. You have connected to the Big Island world and not just a tourist or recent transplant.
You understand that when people tell you oh the drought will end the week of the county fair, it usually does. You tell your family to not try visit the week of Merrie Monarch as they wont get a rental car and airfare is not discounted. You learn how to make a ti leaf lei. You know that a sumo is too much food unless you are a 12-15 yr old growing boy!! [
] You know where they serve sumo's! And Ken's is a part of every trip to the Big Island. You finally refer to the Big Island as home. Home is no longer where you moved from.