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Re: "haole" in Hawaii
Posted by I'm glad you brought this post to the top. It's very ironic on 3/31/06

    because I've just been reading the extremely racist California "illegals"
    thread, wherein most of the posters are outraged at the influx of Mexicans
    into our state.

    I've never had the good fortune to visit Hawaii. I've always imagined it to
    be one of the most beautiful places in the world. I've read of the big
    islands becoming extremely commercialized, with huge hotels crowding the
    shorelines. I've read that the cand sugar industry is not what it once was,
    and that some of the native people of the small islands are now finding
    alternative uses for their property.

    Given the rotten treatment over the years of many, many, many brown-skinned
    and black-skinned peoples by others of paler, wealthier, more European
    backgrounds, I wonder if the haole hating is rooted in a very reasonable
    concernthat white people might keep coming in, building lots of tall buildings
    and ugly fast-food restaurants, and eventually try to crowd out or dominate
    the locals, trash the landscape, gobble up the whole place and ruin it, as has
    so wastefully happened in so many other areas of the world.

    Apparently there are many white teachers (TEACHERS!) in California who have
    the same kinds of fears about Mexicans migrating northward. (I guess white
    people forget that the United States is not the center of the universe. To
    many Mexicans, "here" is North America, and they feel that they've been "here"
    longer than some of the Americans who complain about them.)

    But since the outrage among these "teachers" is allegedly about encroachment
    by unwelcome newcomers, I wonder how sympathetic they'd truly be with the
    native people of Hawaii. Would they equate the fear and disdain toward haole
    culture with their own fear and disdain toward Mexican culture, or would they
    roll their eyes and complain further about arrogant "brownies" who don't know
    their place in the U.S.?

    On 3/31/06, concerned4u wrote:
    > I almost forgot this important issue. you see, one would think that some
    > ethnic groups would ally with the haoles, but this is not the case. in
    > fact i'd say that haoles have it worse than the micronesians here since
    > haoles don't even get sympathy or respect. at least the micros have their
    > street gangs.. lol
    >
    > seriously though, ethnicity is everything. anyone who says otherwise
    > either is prior/current military, has not gone outside of waikiki or all of
    > maui, or is haole.
    >
    > On 3/31/06, concerned4u wrote:
    >>> If your Haole and you
    >>> come to Hawaii, you would get a taste of how africans are treated in
    >>> America.
    >>
    >> I went to school in east honolulu from 3rd grade though high school and
    >> will tell you this, if you are "haole", meaning:
    >>

     
     

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