Tweet
OK, I guess I'm in a grumpy mood today, but over at the Honolulu Advertiser:
"Ethnic"? What, pray tell, does this mean in Hawai'i? I suspect that they mean "non-white", but good lord, in a state where only 35% of the population is white, this isn't a very meaningful word.
Actually, I have always been annoyed by that use of the word ethnic, because it's very Eurocentric. It assumes that white people aren't "ethnic", and everyone else is. I liked a SF story I read once where Bach was described as European ethnic music.
Liliha might be the last of the old-time places on O'ahu. The population remains elderly and predominantly ethnic; the pace, slow and pedestrian.
Actually, I have always been annoyed by that use of the word ethnic, because it's very Eurocentric. It assumes that white people aren't "ethnic", and everyone else is. I liked a SF story I read once where Bach was described as European ethnic music.
What's missing is exactly what ethnicity predominates... and if they're going to specify that, why not just say a "largely Filipino community," or a "largely Elbonian community"?
Comment