06-27-2014, 03:14 AM
If there is a nation in this world with a superiority complex, I wouldn't of said it was hawaii 
there are in fact a few contenders, but this isn't one if them! I, personally, have only ever been treated with aloha by local people since the very first day I arrived. One explanation is that I am friendly. Another is that I sound British and England somehow gets a pass on the whole haole thing. One way or another, it is my personal experience of 20 yrs, that as a nation, it is America that has the least respect for themselves, each other, their communities, the environment, and the entire rest of the world. As a nation America lives in hypocrisy so overwhelming that is has become a mockery to all other nations. I cannot begin to understand how that has happened, but I people watch the whole time. It is the middle class Americans that drive like they own the road. It is the Americans that litter. They are rude to service workers. They are disrespectful to each other, and allow their children to disrespect them. That is not to say that America is not an awesome place filled with awesome people. It absolutely is and does. Even most Americans do not realize the awesomeness of their land. It is spectacular. Across some 20 odd states I was met with kindness and respect in every single one, but nowhere in the world have I experienced the aloha that exists here. The fact that I have 'flown here' has apparently simply made me a wealth of stories. I have never felt disrespect in that. Some times we react to imagined prejudice instead of real ones. You read about local resistance to newcomers, so that's what you see. If you walk around with a big grin on your face, people smile back.
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there are in fact a few contenders, but this isn't one if them! I, personally, have only ever been treated with aloha by local people since the very first day I arrived. One explanation is that I am friendly. Another is that I sound British and England somehow gets a pass on the whole haole thing. One way or another, it is my personal experience of 20 yrs, that as a nation, it is America that has the least respect for themselves, each other, their communities, the environment, and the entire rest of the world. As a nation America lives in hypocrisy so overwhelming that is has become a mockery to all other nations. I cannot begin to understand how that has happened, but I people watch the whole time. It is the middle class Americans that drive like they own the road. It is the Americans that litter. They are rude to service workers. They are disrespectful to each other, and allow their children to disrespect them. That is not to say that America is not an awesome place filled with awesome people. It absolutely is and does. Even most Americans do not realize the awesomeness of their land. It is spectacular. Across some 20 odd states I was met with kindness and respect in every single one, but nowhere in the world have I experienced the aloha that exists here. The fact that I have 'flown here' has apparently simply made me a wealth of stories. I have never felt disrespect in that. Some times we react to imagined prejudice instead of real ones. You read about local resistance to newcomers, so that's what you see. If you walk around with a big grin on your face, people smile back.#10048;
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