12-13-2015, 01:37 AM
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Originally posted by Seeb
Instead of ' see something-say something ' they use a name that most people don't know what it means and a number that's not easy to remember.
Kuleana was one of the first 3 Hawaiian words I learned the first few weeks after moving here, the other 2 were mahalo and aloha.
In order to not learn that word while living here someone would have to be living in an almost entirely transplant bubble, without any meaningful interactions with the year round resident community of Hawaii. Kuleana is used in schools, workplaces, government, and by non governmental agencies all the time, if someone doesn't know the word kuleana they probably aren't integrated enough into their surrounding community to know if something is happening that should be reported in the first place.