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Re: Filipino's trying to be Hawaiian
Glen! what are you doing looking at a VS catalog
I like see too! 
As a former photograper, I used to do portfolio work for aspiring models here in Hawaii. Some of my best models were young Filipina. Body wise they have the best proportions for their petite height. Here in Hawaii we have more women that fit into that catagory...yet not all are proportional. For some women, they may be short, but they may be small-breasted or have what we call in Hawaii: Kamaboko legs.
But young Filipino women are like miniature women under 5'4" tall. Except for their feet. For some reason ho boy dakine luau feet dem buggahs.
Anyway Suzie...I think you're a nice person but people born and raised here in Hawaii from different and even mixed ethnicity call themselves local because that's what we are. I've never been to Japan yet I'm 100% Japanese. Am I proud of my ethnicity? No way. I don't speak the language, I don't ever want to learn it. I hate the Japanese "Honor System" it's so prejudiced and narrow minded when it comes to the needs and respect of others. I hate their "Yes means No, No means Yes" attitude where you gotta read their friggin minds as to what they really want.
With that said, under who's authority am I to say these things? Mine because I was raised in a strict Japanese Household under traditional Japanese parents whose parents came from Japan. The Sansei are the last generation of Hawaii born Japanese that have any of the traditional Japanese disciplines of the Old World. And I hate it! I vowed never to raise my kids that way just to break that stupid way of life forever.
But here I am a full-blooded Japanese living in Hawaii...just like a lot of us here who have adopted Hawaii as it's home and it's culture. Not Hawaiian or Kanaka Maoli culture, but the culture that exists during our lifetime as we grew up here in this blended lifestyle we call "local". A little bit of everything that works when combined to form a local style culture.
Yeah I use a bit of Japanese here like eating rice, taking off my slippers before entering a home, taking a bath BEFORE going to bed. But if you tell me, "no thanks you can have the last beer in the cooler" I'll drink it instead of waiting forever for you to finally take the offer. A true Japanese would be offended if they said no but didn't give it to them anyway, because a true Japanese was really thinking, "Craig offered the beer to me but my parents always told me not to take the last portion, so I'll say no, but because he's Japanese too, he'll actually give it to me anyway because his parents told him to always give despite the refusal because that's what a proper host does."
Honorable yes but Western culture dictates that NO means just that...NO! And you wonder why we have such problems with East and West. But here in Hawaii East does meet West and thru the generations we have learned to understand and appreciate each other's cultures and adapt it to form a workable culture we in Hawaii call: LOCAL. It doesn't work outside Hawaii because this is a culture that can only be applied to Hawaii because of it's diversity. This kind of mix cannnot be found anywhere else in the US or the world.
And the one BIG no no is for a non-Hawaiian to call themselves Hawaiian. All locals know and respect that. You ain't local if you cannot see that distinction that locals give to Hawaiians.
Notice I never said Kanaka Maoli? Why because I've been told the term Kanaka Maoli is reserved for the pure or full-blooded Hawaiian no one else.
Being Japanese has made for even more distorted conversations to my ignorant mainland friends. They tell me I'm Japanese so I must be from Japan. No I tell them I'm from the United States of America. They respond but you said you were from Hawaii. Yes just as you are from Idaho. So that makes you Hawaiian? No I'm from Hawaii. But you said you were from the United States? Yes Hawaii is the 50th state.
So then what are you? I'm a United States Citizen that is local from Hawaii of Japanese descent but I've never been to Japan, can't speak the language, and quite frankly I'd rather be Hawaiian just to end this conversation. Mahalo!
Glen! what are you doing looking at a VS catalog
I like see too! As a former photograper, I used to do portfolio work for aspiring models here in Hawaii. Some of my best models were young Filipina. Body wise they have the best proportions for their petite height. Here in Hawaii we have more women that fit into that catagory...yet not all are proportional. For some women, they may be short, but they may be small-breasted or have what we call in Hawaii: Kamaboko legs.
But young Filipino women are like miniature women under 5'4" tall. Except for their feet. For some reason ho boy dakine luau feet dem buggahs.
Anyway Suzie...I think you're a nice person but people born and raised here in Hawaii from different and even mixed ethnicity call themselves local because that's what we are. I've never been to Japan yet I'm 100% Japanese. Am I proud of my ethnicity? No way. I don't speak the language, I don't ever want to learn it. I hate the Japanese "Honor System" it's so prejudiced and narrow minded when it comes to the needs and respect of others. I hate their "Yes means No, No means Yes" attitude where you gotta read their friggin minds as to what they really want.
With that said, under who's authority am I to say these things? Mine because I was raised in a strict Japanese Household under traditional Japanese parents whose parents came from Japan. The Sansei are the last generation of Hawaii born Japanese that have any of the traditional Japanese disciplines of the Old World. And I hate it! I vowed never to raise my kids that way just to break that stupid way of life forever.
But here I am a full-blooded Japanese living in Hawaii...just like a lot of us here who have adopted Hawaii as it's home and it's culture. Not Hawaiian or Kanaka Maoli culture, but the culture that exists during our lifetime as we grew up here in this blended lifestyle we call "local". A little bit of everything that works when combined to form a local style culture.
Yeah I use a bit of Japanese here like eating rice, taking off my slippers before entering a home, taking a bath BEFORE going to bed. But if you tell me, "no thanks you can have the last beer in the cooler" I'll drink it instead of waiting forever for you to finally take the offer. A true Japanese would be offended if they said no but didn't give it to them anyway, because a true Japanese was really thinking, "Craig offered the beer to me but my parents always told me not to take the last portion, so I'll say no, but because he's Japanese too, he'll actually give it to me anyway because his parents told him to always give despite the refusal because that's what a proper host does."
Honorable yes but Western culture dictates that NO means just that...NO! And you wonder why we have such problems with East and West. But here in Hawaii East does meet West and thru the generations we have learned to understand and appreciate each other's cultures and adapt it to form a workable culture we in Hawaii call: LOCAL. It doesn't work outside Hawaii because this is a culture that can only be applied to Hawaii because of it's diversity. This kind of mix cannnot be found anywhere else in the US or the world.
And the one BIG no no is for a non-Hawaiian to call themselves Hawaiian. All locals know and respect that. You ain't local if you cannot see that distinction that locals give to Hawaiians.
Notice I never said Kanaka Maoli? Why because I've been told the term Kanaka Maoli is reserved for the pure or full-blooded Hawaiian no one else.
Being Japanese has made for even more distorted conversations to my ignorant mainland friends. They tell me I'm Japanese so I must be from Japan. No I tell them I'm from the United States of America. They respond but you said you were from Hawaii. Yes just as you are from Idaho. So that makes you Hawaiian? No I'm from Hawaii. But you said you were from the United States? Yes Hawaii is the 50th state.
So then what are you? I'm a United States Citizen that is local from Hawaii of Japanese descent but I've never been to Japan, can't speak the language, and quite frankly I'd rather be Hawaiian just to end this conversation. Mahalo!
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