laws not enforced?

[Hualani]

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Originally posted by ironyak

[quote]Originally posted by Southernmost

Even in these rants by HaoleProud, I don't believe I've heard anyone stating that locals (for lack of a better term = born & raised on island? on any Hawai'i island?) should not stay or that it is not your home. This however is a common phrase heard from locals directed to transplants (for lack of a better word)

For you, is home only the place you were born?
Why do you "have no where to go" in the sense of choosing to live anywhere else on this vast planet?

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Um Ironyak: how embarrassing! Have you knottaken the time to learn any of the national language for where you live?

Let me help:
MALAHINI- NEWCOMER
KEIKI O KA 'AINA - (lit.) BORN OF THE LAND OR ejected from the maternal womb in the Hawaiian Islands.
KAMA'AINA - Long time assimilated resident. Generally accepted as more than a couple of decades.
KANAKA MAOLE- Native Hawaiian with Racial implications of "Hawaiian" or Polynesian

Add in the colloquialisms for "local" for "Haole" (also defines as foreigner), I hope we're all adult enough here to accept any and all of the non derogatory terms without requiring justifications/explanations....but then again?