Filipinos trying to be Hawaiian

[craigwatanabe]

Re: Filipino's trying to be Hawaiian

I thought mine was "rat," or is that just applicable during the workday?

Okay make that three.

[SusieMisajon]

Re: Filipino's trying to be Hawaiian

That makes you Filipino/German I don't see any Hawaiian in there at all. My wife is Hawaiian, Japanese, Portuguese, Korean, German, Irish. Physically it comes out looking Filipino (for some strange reason) but I don't call her Alaskan (and she did live there for a while).

It just doesn't make any sense to call yourself one race when you don't have an ounce of that race within you. You live in France but if you're German/Filipino, don't dare tell a Frenchman you're French too. Right?

When your wife was living in Alaska, and someone asked, what was she? Local Hawaiian? Poi? Hawaiian? American? From Hawaii? Alaskan, at the time? MYOB?

PS I'm just Haole. The Filipino one is not the biological one. The 'real' one is Italian/American. And my passport is German. And, surely...Misajon comes from Spain, originally.

[Hi Tone]

Re: Filipino's trying to be Hawaiian

hello I'm new here, I'm filipino and hawaiian and get alot of backlash because of my hawaiian side.
Now I just say i'm filipino and kanaka, it's more easier to understand.

[SusieMisajon]

Re: Filipino's trying to be Hawaiian

hello I'm new here, I'm filipino and hawaiian and get alot of backlash because of my hawaiian side.
Now I just say i'm filipino and kanaka, it's more easier to understand.

Yeah...but where do you live?

PS Hi!

[craigwatanabe]

Re: Filipino's trying to be Hawaiian

When your wife was living in Alaska, and someone asked, what was she? Local Hawaiian? Poi? Hawaiian? American? From Hawaii? Alaskan, at the time? MYOB?

She says she's part Hawaiian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, German, Irish...and that's the simple truth. It's long but that's her reality and nobody calls her disrespectful.

[SusieMisajon]

Re: Filipino's trying to be Hawaiian

She says she's part Hawaiian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, German, Irish...and that's the simple truth. It's long but that's her reality and nobody calls her disrespectful.

That wouldn't work for me, over here. You also gotta remember that I'm a dirty stinkin' furriner, for them. Better to keep it simple.

But, if I was on the mainland, I'd say that I was 'from Hawaii', and probably leave it at that.

[sinjin]

Re: Filipino's trying to be Hawaiian

PS I'm just Haole.

Then quit pretending and rotate out those lead soldered canned goods.

[Paul]

Re: Filipino's trying to be Hawaiian

I think the difference between Hawai'i and other states is that this is the only one that was once a sovereign nation ruled by the indigenous people. Alaska was never like that. The Innuit never formed the Kingdom of Alaska. Sure there was the Republic of Texas but this was formed by anglo settlers and not the native people.

[SusieMisajon]

Re: Filipino's trying to be Hawaiian

Then quit pretending and rotate out those lead soldered canned goods.

? I think I've been away too long. Please translate.

[sinjin]

Re: Filipino's trying to be Hawaiian

http://www.pennhealth.com/ency/article/002428.htm

[SusieMisajon]

Re: Filipino's trying to be Hawaiian

http://www.pennhealth.com/ency/article/002428.htm

Please try again, it's midnight, over here.

[sinjin]

Re: Filipino's trying to be Hawaiian

Okay now I feel like I'm tripping the blind man.

Slowly. Be careful in your stocking up for doomsday that your can goods aren't soldered with lead. It makes you stoopid.

[SusieMisajon]

Re: Filipino's trying to be Hawaiian

Okay now I feel like I'm tripping the blind man.

Slowly. Be careful in your stocking up for doomsday that your can goods aren't soldered with lead. It makes you stoopid.

It's BIRD FLU, and they're stocked...I'm not eating them, yet. And I'm not stupid, yet, either. But you are, for being insulting, rather than keeping up with the conversation.

[sinjin]

Re: Filipino's trying to be Hawaiian

I've been keeping up. You're not Hawaiian and you're not Filipina. You're a mildly paranoid, semi-crunchy haole girl from Hawaii, maybe originally, maybe not, that likes to talk pidgin and pass yourself off as a Hawaiian when you're fairly certain no one will call you on it. Really not that rare. How am I doing so far?

[Leo Lakio]

Re: Filipino's trying to be Hawaiian

You also gotta remember that I'm a dirty stinkin' furriner, for them. Better to keep it simple.

Only if you are gonna let "them" define who you are. Tell 'em the truth, and if they can't wrap their heads around it, too bad for them (IMHO). And if they can, then you've been responsible for spreading wisdom.

Having never visited France, let alone lived there, I can't make assumptions as to how non-French residents are treated or viewed. (Okay, I CAN make them, but I won't go around saying "I know this to be the truth.") Susie, you're in the middle of it there, so you have a better perspective. If you didn't have to worry about how the message would be recieved, what would be the words you would choose when asked about your background or ethnicity? Would you feel most comfortable with the same simple statement that you would use on the US Mainland: "from Hawai`i"?