04-06-2015, 11:33 AM
Originally posted by Southernmost
A Hawaiian is someone who has ancestral ties prior to western contact. There's nothing racist about knowing and practicing your culture.
Depends on the culture - plenty of racist stereotypes and reasoning embedded in cultures all over the world. Making generalized statements regarding people if they are Hawaiian or non-Hawaiian/outsider/foreigner/haole is racist. Of course everyone is entitled to their opinion or to voice their objection - it is a free country (?)
As for the TMT, the conflicts between the religious and scientific issues for the project are probably unresolvable - the core values are just too different. Ultimately, the process is not really about either, but rather another example of the main issue for most conflicts - land and power. Given Hawaii's history from the Kingdom restoration, speculative subdivisions, statehood vote, 1893 coup, Kamehameha unification, Pili & Pa'ao takeover, etc... this is not new nor should be surprising.
A Hawaiian is someone who has ancestral ties prior to western contact. There's nothing racist about knowing and practicing your culture.
Depends on the culture - plenty of racist stereotypes and reasoning embedded in cultures all over the world. Making generalized statements regarding people if they are Hawaiian or non-Hawaiian/outsider/foreigner/haole is racist. Of course everyone is entitled to their opinion or to voice their objection - it is a free country (?)
As for the TMT, the conflicts between the religious and scientific issues for the project are probably unresolvable - the core values are just too different. Ultimately, the process is not really about either, but rather another example of the main issue for most conflicts - land and power. Given Hawaii's history from the Kingdom restoration, speculative subdivisions, statehood vote, 1893 coup, Kamehameha unification, Pili & Pa'ao takeover, etc... this is not new nor should be surprising.