While leisurely going through many of the old threads over the past week or so, I noticed how typical and racists one can be in regards to Hawaiian culture. It's "racist" when one uses the word "Haole", usually in a demeaning way, but it's okay to criticize Hawaiian culture or aspects of it b/c they don't seem to follow the norms of those who strongly follow western tradition as demonstrated on the issue of iwi and how they are seen by some people in this community as either meaningless or not even worth mentioining or being handled in a proper way.
What would happen if someone began building over a place where Christian were buried? Or where Caucasians were buried? Blacks? Now we certainly would hear it from the NAACP if that ever happened.
I am posting this here and tackling the issue at hand rather than go back to the old threads back in July and respond to that very issue when more likely the person responsible for posting such insensitive and racist remark would never reply.
In any case, what I'd like to know is of the Hawaiian culture, why is it that people think "hula" seems to be the only cultural thing that should be elevated and idolized whereas everything else is looked at as "garbage" or claim that we are making a fuss over nothing. Seriously, can non-Hawaiians put themselves in our shoes? I highly doubt it.
As the saying goes by others of People of Color, unless you look the part and have experienced some type of discrimination would you ever know. I do, I've gone through that back in the 70s. We live in a new time and I am not about to experience humiliation and discrimination like I did growing up by supposedly adults that are semi educated.
What would happen if someone began building over a place where Christian were buried? Or where Caucasians were buried? Blacks? Now we certainly would hear it from the NAACP if that ever happened.
I am posting this here and tackling the issue at hand rather than go back to the old threads back in July and respond to that very issue when more likely the person responsible for posting such insensitive and racist remark would never reply.
In any case, what I'd like to know is of the Hawaiian culture, why is it that people think "hula" seems to be the only cultural thing that should be elevated and idolized whereas everything else is looked at as "garbage" or claim that we are making a fuss over nothing. Seriously, can non-Hawaiians put themselves in our shoes? I highly doubt it.
As the saying goes by others of People of Color, unless you look the part and have experienced some type of discrimination would you ever know. I do, I've gone through that back in the 70s. We live in a new time and I am not about to experience humiliation and discrimination like I did growing up by supposedly adults that are semi educated.
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