Post #67799 by MTKahuna on Mon, Jan 5, 2004 6:26 PM

I was taught in a Black Studies Courses that anyone who was 1/16 of an indigenous culture was then considered of that culture.
Supposedly, this was a rule that was imposed by slave owners in the days of slavery.

So... If your great great grandmother was Hawaiian, then you can call yourself Hawaiian?

Hawaii is as authentic as a Velveeta cheese loaf. It is now a “looped” commercial made up of many cultures and ethnicities. Let's not forget the Portuguese sailor's, Mexican cowboys, and Chinese tailors that migrated to the islands for economic reasons.

In fact, many of the "so called" characteristics of Hawaii are not really Hawaiian at all.
For example: pineapple, aloha shirts, slack key guitars, ukuleles, and sugar cane were all introduced to the islands by other cultures.

However, two things that were created by traditional Hawaiians are surfing and tikies.

My point is... Shit, I forgot my point!

Anyway, Save the rain forest, the hump back whale, and learn the REAL meaning of TIKI!!!