Post #74878 by Sneakytiki on Fri, Feb 6, 2004 2:02 PM

I agree wholeheartedly bigbro. I think using sacred Kahunas as logos or names of peoples is crossing that line. For example I think the Dodge Aloha would be fine but Kahuna is out. The Navaho word for roadrunner is a cool idea but don't call the car a Navaho.
Enjoying watered down polynesian culture is fine, aloha shirts and hula skirts are fine but brown face paint is sad. It's a fine line but perhaps we should all think a bit before we act. PS I love your book. My dad is a Vietnam Vet.(Recon.) and as quick as I am to think the war was a mistake (especially as it was fought)I sometimes consider what would have happened if we had not taken a stand against communism in Vietnam and Korea. We were really fighting the Chinese and if we had not took a stand would they not have tried for Japan for Taiwan or for more? I know our motives and methods were unpure and if the Vietnamese majority had wanted Communism we should have butted out but perhaps the war did stop millions of others in other places to not have to endure the communist regime. This is what I try to tell myself to make the purple heart my father earned mean something. We'll never know what asia would be now without a US intervention. We only know of our dead and wounded and the Vietnamese who suffered and died. Perhaps it would have been worse without Vietnam. Probably not, but now that the wall is down and the USSR has disintegrated it's easy to dismiss the domino theory. I agree that the current admin. is forgetting Vietnam as well, watching troops die daily in Iraq is troubling to me as a vet. myself. I pray for our troops.