Post #180783 by christiki295 on Fri, Aug 19, 2005 10:21 AM

Aloha Tropicalguy,

Your issue regarding "True Hawaiians" is well taken.

Hawiians now, just like many groups, have undergone changes from over the generations. For example, it does a disservice too exclude the other nationalities from being "true Hawaiians," even though at some point there ancestors were from the Philipines, etc.

(The same point is made about me - I consider myself American, not even so much African-American, as I have no idea where, or which nation, on the Ivory Coast my ancestors came from and "African" is not really a political affiliation, like "Mexican" or "French" - its not like we refer to people as "Latin-American" or "Euro-American.")

I digress.
Regarding "true Hawaiians," maybe I should have used the phrase "native blood Hawiians?" However, that has "blue-blood class connotations."

Maybe I should have omitted the issue entirely, as it quickly becomes a quagmire.