Outsiders love to tell Hawaiians what is and isn't localism or why there shouldn't be localism.
Also what words we should and shouldn't use. And how we should or shouldn't behave towards tourists.
Also when and how we should show Aloha Spirit. Also how we should or shouldn't report wave size lol.
actually, if you reread my post, you will see that I am just pondering out loud. I don't tell you a thing about how to behave, who to be, nor how to measure your pepis - man parts.
my father, born back in the 30's, who was forced to emigrate because of the "local" dictator, you might have heard of him? Francisco Franco? Used to put people up against the wall, who were born here, but according to him, weren't "local enough". Then have someone else pull the trigger, and bulldoze the bodies into roadside ditches. Why hey, some "locals" are still finding mass graves today, in 2021!
And guess what? His monument to "death to all haole"? It's called "el valle de los caídos". The Valley of the Fallen? He even had them build a monastery and a huge church, for the "locals" who lived to go worship, while praying on marble slabs with literally tens, or hundreds, of thousands of bodies under? (There are two entrances to each side as you enter, with a sign above saying "here lie the fallen from X year to year Z" ... Too many to bother counting!) They're still arguing about tearing it down and giving the dead proper burials, not to mention, letting their families put the tragedies that haunt them still to this day, to rest.
So, dads told me all about how he, and his family, all born here, in the same area as the stupid "local" dictator, about how they were forced from their homes, had to eat bars of soap to fill their stomaches when they could find no food, etc...
Yeah you keep on keeping on thinking that a chunk of soil under your feet make you "special".
All I know is, racism is racism, no matter what you want to call it.
Try travel, it broadens the outlook when one sees EVERYWHERE ONE GOES, people are just people, trying to get along.
It's not about, us vs. you, or you vs. us.... It's that we all are being kept down and divided and made to hate the guy on the other side of the "imaginary line drawn in the sand".
Just putting it out there, in hopes it might open some people's eyes.
Again, be however you want and feel is right.
All I ask, is that you question any narrative that is "divisive" as it doesn't really further "our" cause much as a human race.
Dividi Vinci. Pitting us vs them. And in the meantime, while they argue amongst themselves, the top screws both sides of the bottom and thus keeps them down.
Localism?
It's 2021.
How much longer we fall for it! 3021?
Have a lovely day.
P.S. wave size here is same as Hawaii, everything is "medio metro" .... until it's not.