Any other haoles got bad treatment or racist comments from the locals in Hawaii?
I’m just asking this out of curiosity, as I’m haole as hell (from the mainland too!) and am somewhat of a cultural chameleon so I blend in very quickly, but I’ve gotten nothing but aloha from the local aina, even from the moke dudes who seem to hate every haole they come across lol
just my local experience, or does everyone in Hawaii get along so well as I do? is racism isolated, or is it just a few bad eggs?
There are pockets of it here and there. I really didn’t run into any I can remember in the four years I was going to UH, but I do see it and hear of it in the schools sometimes.
I think if you went to the wrong surfbreak and dropped in on someone’s wave, or looked at the wrong girl in Waikiki at 4 AM, or were just in middle school, you would see it in a hurry. It’s important to realize that some Local kids give each other just as much grief as they give anybody else, if not more. There are some hair trigger tempers out there, and things might get racial in a hurry, even if the conflict wasn’t about race to begin with. It’s just another form of escalation.
February 16th, 2010 at 1:05 am
Just a few bad eggs. Happens anywhere you go.
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February 16th, 2010 at 1:52 am
There are pockets of it here and there. I really didn’t run into any I can remember in the four years I was going to UH, but I do see it and hear of it in the schools sometimes.
I think if you went to the wrong surfbreak and dropped in on someone’s wave, or looked at the wrong girl in Waikiki at 4 AM, or were just in middle school, you would see it in a hurry. It’s important to realize that some Local kids give each other just as much grief as they give anybody else, if not more. There are some hair trigger tempers out there, and things might get racial in a hurry, even if the conflict wasn’t about race to begin with. It’s just another form of escalation.
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February 16th, 2010 at 2:02 am
I am an RN & occasionally I care for a patient who makes it clear one way or the other that he or she doesn’t much care for haole folks, but in my personal life I haven’t had any trouble. I think Beckee made some good points. A lot of it depends on the places you frequent & how you carry yourself.
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Honolulu resident
February 16th, 2010 at 2:12 am
just drive like an idiot anywhere and you’ll probably get a "F-en Haole!"
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February 16th, 2010 at 2:31 am
U people not in the danger zone
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