04-08-2015, 01:48 PM
my comment was intended to describe a wider trend related to the topic more than limited to being directed at yourself, punafish. that of over-romanticizing an imaginary ideal and perhaps you could say "anthropomorphizing" cultures as they may or may not have actually existed in the past. let's not pretend we are, in the present day here in Hawaii, dealing with so-called mindsets so alien and divided from each other anything remotely on par with some first contact event involving wooden ships with sails in waters uncharted to "them". let's get real... there will be no first and second class citizenry here based on genetic credentials. no forced mass exodus based on lineage. what would the criteria be? 100% lineage to be a decider? 50%? 1%? the reality, perhaps most evidently for lifelong inhabitants with extended families deeply rooted, is that there is pretty much just an us here now. for us such exotic divisive talk is somewhat laughable.