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Re: Hawaiian Nativism redux...
As for the other side of the coin, why not? I lived in Hawaii for five years, on Oahu and Maui, and spent a lot of time on every island but Niihau. Hawaii is as racially diverse as anywhere in the US I've ever experienced and each race generally follows its own customs. Most mainland haoles can't determine the difference between Chinese/Japanese, Hawaiian/Samoan and I remember tourists constantly referring to Filipinos as Mezicans. I say give Hawaiians their own land, those few who are left, and treat them as a sovereign nation. That will at least provide some compensation for what the fundamentalist Christians who raped the islands called bringing their god and civilization to savages and assist in preserving their cultural identity. The Waikiki beach front and Pearl Harbor would be a nice starter gift.
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