02-11-2016, 07:01 AM
quote:PW is really bad with haole stereotyping of locals, trying to judge them from a mainland superior attitude.
Originally posted by VancouverIslander
Tom: I think Ted is referring to all the people who complain about Hawai'i gun laws and all the other things *some* (not all) new transplants often complain about that locals are more ok with.
This is called the Big Island but it is really a small island. There are locals that have been living here for over a thousand years. Transplants never seem to grasp that.
One way of understanding things is realizing Captain Cook died because he never understood Hawaiians. This is Hawaii, it is going to be different. I am here for the differences, not the similarities to the mainland or try to make it the mainland. The reality is there are a lot of displaced locals, and remember, this is an island, so you get caught, you go into a local jail, you come out in your local neighborhood, you end up doing the same thing, around and around and around, because this is an island. What else are you going to do? No matter where you go, there you are.
The problem is the mainland thug gangsta culture is growing like an invasive fungus, so there is more black totally tinted window cars, open carry, ample meth, probably heroin now, bath salts mixed with cold medicine, rap, and more handguns in circulation. That one guy had an arsenal in the back seat. Volumes smuggled in that quantity has to be by sailboats, and these are haole enterprises. Think 1870, trappers running guns and whiskey to native Indians for furs.
"Aloha also means goodbye. Aloha!"
*Japanese tourist on bus through Pahoa, "Is this still America?*