Post #183735 by christiki295 on Thu, Sep 1, 2005 5:58 PM

On 2005-08-31 21:37, Geeky Tiki wrote:
Hi, Christiki,

It was basically a totalitarian state that has now been romanticized into a nation of enlightened hippie-like hula dancers and men who juggled torches.

True enough, the grass skirt clad hula dancer, and the nostaligic Hawaiiana in general, often serves as a stereotypical summary which fails to address the very serious, complex and not often easily resolved issues which face contemporary Hawaii, one of which we have discussed above.