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Hawaii

LTG

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8. Have always thought of myself as kama'aina and a haole too.

Reply to KamaAina (Original post)

Wed Feb 24, 2016, 06:17 AM

Feb 2016

My family arrived in Honolulu over 100 years ago. The family has lived in the same house in Honolulu for 80 years. The Japanese side of the family came to the Islands as indentured cane workers. Friends still call me haole, and doesn't bother me a bit. Just another one of those "local haoles".

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Kokua needed. I am deep in a world-class flamewar in GD over the correct use of the term "haole". [View all] KamaAina Feb 2016 OP

I'm not Hawaiian, but doesn't that just mean 'white person'? nt Erich Bloodaxe BSN Feb 2016 #1

Precisely. KamaAina Feb 2016 #2

How ignorantly sad the critics are. floriduck Feb 2016 #3

Mahalo nui loa! KamaAina Feb 2016 #4

Mahalo and gracias. floriduck Feb 2016 #5

My brother was a haole. Downwinder Feb 2016 #6

Never felt offended being called haole Jake Stern Feb 2016 #7

Have always thought of myself as kama'aina and a haole too. LTG Feb 2016 #8

Ho, buggah! You not one haole! You hapa! KamaAina Feb 2016 #9

That's what I tell them. LTG Feb 2016 #10

Just saw that. Rofl! mahina Feb 2016 #11

Oh good lord. I am SO glad I missed that. Hekate Mar 2016 #12

That's because all the African Americans on the windward side are at K-Bay. KamaAina Mar 2016 #13

Our next door neighbor was a Master Sargeant at the Marine base in Kaneohe... Hekate Mar 2016 #14