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ProgressiveProfessor

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1. In my experience it is almost exclusively used as a perjorative

Reply to ellisonz (Original post)

Fri Dec 16, 2011, 06:35 PM

Dec 2011

I was never called that since I have fairly dark skin, especially after some time in the water, but I had many friends who were.

I have seen it used as a pejorative by those with not a single drop of native blood in their veins clearly as a racial slur.

I have seen some (in retrospect) amusing confrontations where a kamaina who was called a haole cut their accuser to pieces (verbally) in awesome pidgin. Sometimes that was better received than others.

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Book Review: Judy Rohrer, Haoles in Hawai‘i: Race and Ethnicity in Hawai‘i. UH Press - 2010 [View all] ellisonz Dec 2011 OP

In my experience it is almost exclusively used as a perjorative ProgressiveProfessor Dec 2011 #1

Thank you for sharing. ellisonz Dec 2011 #2

What about some other words? ProgressiveProfessor Dec 2011 #3

Agreed. ellisonz Dec 2011 #4

um.... "Kam" is a Chinese school.... PoiBoy Dec 2011 #5

You got me! See above now. ellisonz Dec 2011 #6

Yet most of the time, its still call Kam. Same thing with the highway ProgressiveProfessor Dec 2011 #7

Pono PoiBoy Dec 2011 #8