Oahu local here, I often get mistaken for being Hawaiian, when really I'm just a tall Filipino dude

My old neighborhood was full of Filipinos, including myself

My uncle is Filipino and people thinks his samoan Hawaiian or black lol

I’ve been mistaken for Puerto Rican, Chinese, Mexican, and even Black/Korean

@@macjones3158 lol nice I'm Mexican 😎 and why u beating that dude in the video? 😅

I think he already did one if im not mistaking

@@lizzyvega9612 He did one about the differences between Cajuns and Creoles. I'm speaking about doing one regarding the entirety of Louisiana. Cajuns and Creoles will be part of it. However, I'm talking more, which includes Italians, Africans, Spanish, Croatians, Irish, German, Vietnamese, Filipino, Chinese,etc. Look up yakamein.

@Geoffrey Darcy that is so cool!

@Geoffrey Darcy That is very fitting. In New Orleans, many people mixed and that became part of the culture.

Croatian? Wut?

Are they really a minority? At some point Native and non-native Hawaiians all become Hawaiian.

At least it's a much higher proportion than Native Americans in the eastern and even western United States.

At least you can publically mourn that loss.

@@justonfenton So now you're comparing hawaiian natives to people who migrate to hawaii... Americanization is a terrible process

Yes

Yes! Please!

Who are these Folsom people? I live in Folsom, CA

@@chefj4042 Apparently they're a very strange endangered lot who speak pidgin English lol (j/k). I don't live that far from Folsom myself.

cuz try go work for da counteh waddah supply out in the kuntry side all da engineahs stay talking pidgin liddat.

I live Waianae, we still talk hard pidgin, but now days the younger kids are starting to talk like mainlanders with the “dawg” “bruhh” vs braddah or mah braddah lol PLUS Speaking pidgin is looked down upon by foreigners, as ghetto, trust me I know.

@@keokikahumokukoa8832 i agree i from keaau and all the youth is trying to sound black but still a sizable amount of pidgin speakers

Dylan T if you have aloha you would support giving the land and governing of Hawaii back to the native Hawaiians

@@outsidechambaz i do

Thats the opposite of melting pot. Its the inbreeding pot of the USA

He briefly touched on the Melungeons once. I knew a few back when I lived there.

*ededeD gniK ... Yes that would be a very interesting video to view❗️*

Punk Rock, I think you have your A-words confused. You’re think of Alabama, not the Appalachians.

Punk Rock Region has an interesting an unique history compared to surrounding areas.

I would consider that very fitting. Portuguese explorers traveled throughout the world. And not just Brazil. Africa, the East Indies, etc.

Magellan died in Mactan. My ancestors, the Visayan were explorers too. Magellan had a blood pact and became a blood brother with the Rajah of Cebu. He fought and died fighting the Datu of Mactan. Magellan died on a Visayan beach, on a Visayan Island on Visayan shores struck down by Visayan arrows. I always found it fitting that the greatest Explorer died on the shores of other Voyagers.

@@bobofthestorm Explorers had quite the adventures. Not for the faint of heart.

@@TheGeoScholar Magellan is my favorite explorer. People seem to find it odd that in Cebu we have a Cross that was erected by Magellan and just right across the street is a Statue of the man that killed him. *We're not supposed to commemorate muh colonial mentality and sheitz* I never really see it that way. It's two different landmarks commemorating two great people. One is of an Explorer. One is of a Pagan patriot. Find me anyone from any Ethnicity that pushed through Argentina like Magellan? It wasn't the Phoenicians, Scandinavians, Austronesians, Micronesians and not even the Polynesians who managed to pull it off. It was this Latin that did it.

@@bobofthestorm Magalhães is the last name. The nasal diphtongs are hard, but there it is.

HipHipJorge ! Or, or, maybe it’s just a natural result of the mixing of humans from different backgrounds

You pretty much sum it up we got the same thing of where I'm from

@@hiphipjorge5755 lmao you calling us uneducated what are you i bet your as uneducated as the rest of us then :) well actually seems like you have no brains anyways which proves that your uneducated

I from Hawaii, born and raised. Im Hawaiian, English, Irish, Filipino. Most 'locals' are a mixed or 'hapa'.

@@backdraft808 same here bruh. Hawaii born. Filipino ilokano, Portuguese Azorean, native Hawaiian, Irish, spanish , welsh , Norwegian, ..was My ancestry dna results Lol. 50% asian 36% European 14% Eastern Polynesian. 🤙

Duck Supremacy "%86 of my class claimed filipino ancestry, %72 claimed Japanese ancestry, and %65 claimed European ancestry" they know their ancestry and you would know they knew if you spent less time on Vdare and more time learning to read, something you never did cause mom and dad, who were cousins, were too poor to put you in school

Duck Supremacy, mixed is an identity, and Europeans are old Paleolithic with Asian and North African, plus 2% Neanderthal. We are all human. Most of the world’s cultures don’t confuse genetics with tribe. Tribe is culture, not who your great grandparents were.

@Duck Supremacy braddah, the term in Hawaii for mutt is poidog and plenty people use it. People around here maintain the traditions of their cultures despite being so mixed it's why we have the best food in the world. People mostly identify with the area they grew up in because different areas had different cultural mixings corresponding to the time of migration and availability of the cheapest housing.

@Duck Supremacy no it's because you are an idiot and a bigot. You obviously don't know anything about genetics.

Duck Supremacy actually everyone gets along in Hawaii despite our cultural differences. Our identity is rooted in the place we live in

I heard the Portuguese stole the Ukulele from the Hawaiians.

@@LetsGoGetThem uh, not to sound like _that_ guy in the comments, but what would the Hawaiians have originally made the strings of, nene gut?

I made a comment about the ukelele too. Portuguese immigrants from the Azores/Madeira helped develop the ukelele. It is based on instruments like the cavaquinho, rajao, and timple. Also, there is a dessert in Hawaii known as malasada. It's kind of like a doughnut. Immigrants from the Azores and Madeira brought it to Hawaii.

@@TheGeoScholar it is spelt ukulele.

Might I add to your Saimin component: Noodles and bbq pork(cha shu) are Chinese. the fish cake and soup are Japanese. Additional ingredients came from Filipinos, Portuguese, and Koreans.

@@lordkent8143 The sausage/chorizo comes from Portuguese immigrants who brought it to Hawaii. Cabbage in saimin is of Korean influences.

I heavily disagree

Hannah Miyamoto No it’s not. You wish it was, but if you’re not hawaiian/Polynesian you have no place to claim Hawai’i as yours

Tsā, naʻaupō wale ke aloha ʻole...

@@kpaukeaho6180 Stop speaking Vietnamese pls it's rude to not speak the same language to us, what if your insulting us? We wouldn't know because your speaking Vietnamese!

Thicc boi named Scarce - mea ʻole ia noʻu.

u wot m8

@@NPC-qo9fr It's a reference to Lilo & Stitch

@Super Duper Badass Midget Planet? The planet I come from is Earth. But Stitch is from another planet. Let me guess, you're from Planet Mexico. Aren't you? No wonder, liberal. MAGA. Get rekt epic style

@Super Duper Badass Midget You certainly don't look like your profile pic, Mexican liberal morth. LOL, go back to Planet Mexico! Get out of Earth!

Super Duper Badass Midget “Multiple”. Nope, only the three. The original (which was terminated), Kim, and this one. There’s another one too but that one is someone else and not me. They’re impersonating me. Anyway, yes I was bullied. Severely so thanks for reminding me of the bad years. You make all liberal Mexican aliens look bad. Oh wait they’re already bad. Trying to flee across the border illegally

Macaco Lider Luso-Tropicalismo

Yes, please!

They’re all Spaniards

@@MidwestStudentVisionaries no

Isn't Hawaii part of the southwest?

@@MidwestStudentVisionaries Mestizos are not Spaniard. Castizos are.

TheGeoScholar "Jumping flea" maybe

@@slimboyfat9409 Ukelele roughly translated from Hawaiian means "jumping flea".

Pretty sure there isn't a consensus on where they were from. Not much data about them afaik.

@@EntryLevelLuxury I suppose, but that's why it would be fun to speculate

Mediterranean peoples probably from Italy or the islands around it or perhaps the balkans

I cant even lie, the racialized comment wars are kind of the best thing about this channel. The content is amazing and unique, always informative, and theres almost always a flame war going on to throw popcorn and pesos at.

yeah, all of my family is from Manoa, Aiea, Kailua, Hawaii-Kai and it kinda depends on the area like you mentioned. My Japanese and Hawaiian side is from Manoa and Aiea, the Haole side is from Kailua and Hawaii-Kai. My Japanese side were some of the first waves of Japanese immigrants to Hawaii around 1890's-1900. I'm glad you mentioned Okinawan as different from Japanese, my Okinawan Cousins from Hawaii don't consider themselves Japanese but Okinawan.

I grew up on the mainland (I’m Spanish , Portuguese, French , Dutch, English, Norwegian and German) but I know Hella people in Hawai’i. There’s hella Samoans in Kalihi and hella Samoans and Tongans in Lai’e.

You look like Kalergi

I assure you Pidgin is still a force in Hawaiʻi, though efforts to suppress it are still prevalent, particularly among private educational institutions (some of my friends who attended Punahou have many horror stories regarding this). I like to think of it as Hawaiian being the language of the land and indigenous people, while Pidgin is the language of Hawaiʻi.

@@user-zo8hs4yh2h Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi/Aoyama Eijiro?

Hawaii isn't the only state that was invaded by American immigrants and then made a state. Texas was also. Maybe that's why they're so paranoid about too much immigration, because they got a lot of experience filling land with their own and then taking it when they gain enough numbers or influence.

@lobsterbale Legesse Human beings have been conquering each other for thousands of years. European people have been conquered and enslaved just as brutally as any other race in history. We're just in a part of history right now where "whites" have been the most successful conquerors. Very soon it'll be someone else's turn. (Probably China.. which will undoubtedly take over Hawaii as soon as it possibly can. When that happens, people will wish America was still running it. ..just like they DEFINITELY would have if the Japanese Imperial Army had taken it in WW2.) Turning this into a "evil white people" thing is a tremendous oversimplification of human history. I'm not at all defending what Europeans and Americans did to Hawaii because it was wrong. I'm just saying it's silly to solely focus on that while ignoring the fact that Hawaiians (and most other races) were brutalizing each other FAR worse for many hundreds of years before whites showed up. I'm also assuming that you're not aware of how certain members of the Hawaiian Royal Family sold out their own culture to gain status within European culture? History is complicated. Except for the fact that America still "owns" it, the white man isn't "running things" in Hawaii. It's one of the most ethnically diverse, peaceful, and friendly places in the world. The majority of Hawaiian politicians/public servants aren't white. ..and in certain instances, regular middle class whites actually have it harder. The majority of white citizens of Hawaii respect the culture and feel lucky to be part of it. Hawaii is not some slave colony where all the brown people are being oppressed. It's a very dynamic and unique place. It's the only place I'm aware of where so many races are crammed together in a tight space ...and they actually get along really well.

@lobsterbale Legesse Because there are more whites than Asians in Hawaii? LOOOOOL! These are Asian immigrants the problem in Hawaii. Not whites any longer.

Hawaii was actually a melting pot even back then. The islands were completely dependent upon trade for survival and served as a crossroads between the Americas and East Asia. Like most places that were crossroads for intercontinental trade, the population was representative of the various peoples that traded.

@@Longlius Having a melting pot wouldn't be a problem if it didn't become colonisation. When rich businessman bought all the resources and overthrew the government. Because just immigration with integration is never a problem but colonialism like that is.

S. Tagerius if you meant native hawaiian, thank you, I needed that

@@outsidechambaz I mean all Hawaiians, both native and non-native.

@@s.tagerius2514 Hawaiian is the native non natives are not Hawaiian

Yeah a stolen state

I think it would be very practical for Hawaiians and maybe to other Polynesians to use the Japanese syllabery system to write their language.

@The Illumination why ?

Hawaii is an illegal state

US means United states. What you said mean United states states

@@user-lz9kz7hu2w ?

@@etho7351 yeah I know but I didn't know how to write it well English isn't my native language You have a nice name

skysthe limitvideos I would like that too, but that would probably require a full-length documentary.

Second this

Guido,Jew,MS 13,blacks in Roosevelt and Freeport,some Puerto Ricans and Dominicans scattered around. There you happy?

The Hudson valley region of New York is interesting also. Tons of native American and Dutch names for alot of towns and places. Spackenkill Poughkeepsie Wappinger falls to list a few.

Talk about the juniverse in Brooklyn

My grandma is from there. Lagos de Moreno.

It would be cool to talk about the Northern North America in general, because I don't get why the Canadian territories and Alaska are always treated separately, despite it only being an artifical border, when you talk about anthropology like he does borders, especially artificial, don't matter that much

In Alaska most people are either indigenous from 30 or 40 different groups and those that are Kassaq are mainly Irish, German, Mexican or Filipino.

Haha yup. Here's a link: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Y9lga7SHxsi9koE.html

Kamsky Sigrah Full blooded Hawaiians are super rare

@@user-lz9kz7hu2w Of course! Because too many Asians keep immigrating to Hawaii. And the same with whites from the US.

native Hawaiians did come from Pacific Asia though???

@@ninow5 Native Hawaiians are Polynesians. They came from other Polynesians from Samoa, Tahiti, Marquesas, and Cook Islands. They came from Pacific Asia as much as Asians themselves came from Africa and Europeans came from Africa. Asians are unrelated to Native Hawaiians. They are in Hawaii because they worked for White colonists and in exchange they received the stolen Indigenous lands. That's it. The rest is Asian propaganda to comfort Asians and make them believe they have been victims and not the invaders unlike Whites. End of story.

@@jayson4602 man you are font of misinformation and hate. The Native Hawaiians are originally from mainland china and Taiwan. They slowly immigrated to Micronesia, then Polynesia, about 2000 years ago, not arriving in the Hawaiian Chain until the 1200's AD. The first Asian immigrants to Hawaii were Chinese in the early 1800's and Japanese arrived in the 1860's they were sought by the Rulers of the Hawaiian Kingdom, not any so called "white colonists".

I live in Florida and I second the motion. Florida has an interesting diversity. Spanish, just where I live there is a mix of French, German, Hispanic, slavik and others. In the town of Palmetto, where I live, there are old sugar cane plantations (now historic sites) that date back to the late 1500s. Not many people know that there is also a significant Amish population here.

Dont be silly. The only real tsunami threat is if another big piece of land falls into the sea, causing a massive "local tsunami", as happened about 750 years ago. Otherwise, the tsunami threat only affects points less than about 30 feet elevation.

There was a tsunami warning when I lived in Hawaii. We all went to shelter and stayed overnight in the higher (elevated) parts of the town. When the tsunami struck that night it was a whopping 1.5 inches :O.

@@AlimTetramorph Yeah, the worst tsunami damage when I lived there over 10 years was a dock and some boats were damaged in Haleiwa. The city police went all over urging people to get off the beaches. You cannot outrun a tsunami when it is actually hitting, but you can at least be on a second or third floor building when it comes in.

Still not as bad as what happened to new Zealand going from 1 island 2 times the size of Greenland to well modern day new Zealand 2 seperate islands and worse of all NEW CALEDONIA BROKE FREE.

I was sort of mistaken. There has not been a massive mega-tsunami in Hawaii since human habitation began. However, in 1868, a fissure in Kilauea caused an earthquake that shifted coastal sediments enough to cause a tsunami that caused many fatalities and wiped out an entire village. However, no ocean-crossing tsunami has caused major loss of life and property destruction since 1946, and much of the loss of life was due to not recognizing the tell-tale sign of an approaching tsunami, which is the sea withdrawing from the normal shoreline.

As a descendant of one that would be cool

As late as the mid-20th Century there were still some elderly people in the Hudson Valley area who spoke Dutch as their first language even though almost all Dutch settlement had ended 250 years earlier.

@@R32R38 van Buren first language was Dutch as well

How about the colony of New Sweden lol

@@duck1ente tbh I put a small video of it on my youtube

@@DJTreviCSRecordings Hardly, most of them arent ambiguous, most likely Hispanic, mostly mestizo and hostile towards the white 'gringos' in the southwest portion of the United states.

@@jamesthomas5109 ''Hispanics'' are ethnically ambiguous....

Interesting. In the old days, there were hardly any 'ethnically ambiguous' people in the US; everyone was either Black or White.

@@toady7741 Theres a video out there about people who describe themselves as ethnically ambiguous.

James Thomas so what does “ambiguous” mean to you? Those racial classifications you mentioned fell out of use a long time ago. Little percentage of the population knows if they belong to any of those.

Sydney Fairbairn Obama was not a hawaiian, and he did NOTHING for us native Hawaiians.

Obama wasn't Hawaiian wtf he lived in Hawaii he was african american Hawaiian isn't a nationality you idiot I doubt your not even Hawaiian just cuz of that dumbness that came out you mouth

@@outsidechambaz Obama is not Hawaiian because he did not live but he’s Hawaiian because he was born there

@@vernicejillmagsino9603 Hawaiian is the native people, my people

Most Dutch in Detroit are descandant of Dutch in New York

Japan and the Philippines are both situated in the Pacific.

@@lenardregencia Yeah, just like Indonesia and other Pacific Islands, and yet you don't see as many Indonesians or other Pacific Islanders in Hawaii. It's unrelated to the location. It's related to the fact that the Philippines was a US colonies for decades and so it was easier to bring them to replace the Native Hawaiians. The US has done the same in Guam with Filipinos. And Japanese it's because they were coolies for the US while Indians and Chinese were coolies for UK/Australia/NZ. And then Japanese soldiers invaded the Pacific. Other Asians such as Chinese and Koreans are less numerous because Japanese were the first and they don't mix well together. Guam and Hawaii are full of Japanese and so Koreans and Chinese prefer to avoid those places. Filipinos are there because the US has always used them to replace Indigenous. Spain did the same after they committed genocide of Micronesians. Same look so not a big deal.

Don't worry! Soon Hawaii will be a Filipino colony!

@@jayson4602 lol guam was part of the philippines. when spain colonized the philippines the palau island and guam was part of the it so why would you replace the people of guam if they're originally pinoy?

​@@ryugakei8359 Guam and Palau had never ever been part of the Philippines! Don't lie because you're so ridiculous! I'm wondering what kind of troll you are to dare to write such a lie... Guam and Palau had never ever been part of the Philippines for the two unbreakable reasons that 1/ natives of the Philippines didn't have the navigator skill to travel to Guam, Palau, or any other islands parts of what we nowadays call the Pacific Islands, and 2/ Paluan language (Palau) and Chamorro language (Guam) have over 70% of vocabulary which are not mutually intelligible with any language spoken in the Philippines. The only tie between Indigenous people of Guam and Palau with the Philippines is that Indigenous people of Guam and Palau travelled through what is nowadays called the Philippines and Indonesia to reach the final destination of their journey and settle for good to what we nowadays call Palau and Guam. Guam and Palau were parts of the Philippines when the Philippines was a Spanish colony named the Captaincy General of the Philippines, which means that Guam and Palau weren't parts of the Philippines but rather parts of the Spanish empire just like the Philippines was. I'm wondering if you aren't another insecure pinoy for having dared to write your comment full of lies... And to conclude, as I accurately explained in my previous comment, it's because Guam was a Spanish colony that there are so many Filipinos in Guam. The Spanish empire imported them to Guam to replace the Indigenous people they killed because of diseases, slave labours, and the reject to convert to Christianity. The USA will keep importing Filipinos to Guam (and Hawai'i) when they will take over the control of Guam and Hawai'i. It's the only reason why there are Filipinos in any of those Pacific Islands. The same with other Asians (Japanese, Korean, Chinese). And the cardinal reason why people of Filipinos Japanese, Korean, or Chinese ancestry in Hawai'i, Guam, Palau, and all other Pacific Islands aren't labelled as natives nor Indigenous people. They aren't! They are descendants of coolies who de facto were colonisers along with European/White people. Move on my dear troll.

horn of africa or Somalia not east Africa

@@ndlsoild805 That's the same.

TheKalihiMan, mahalo iā ‘oe no kou mana’o ma’ane’i. Pono nō kākou e heluhelu a a’o mai e pili ana i ka wā i hala. Mahalo piha mai kēia keiki o ka ‘āina.

Like any good apologist you are only presenting one side of the situation with a great deal of hind sight speculation. The Republic of Hawaii, was universally recognized as legitimate by the majority of nations within a few weeks of its formation. President Cleveland, was initially opposed to the annexation of Hawai'i, based primarily on his own prejudices, (he didn't like non white peoples) and the Blount Report, a notoriously faulty study. He changed his support for Queen Liliʻuokalani after the Morgan Report which discredited the Blount Report. About 22, 000 people out of approximately 39,000 of Native Hawaiian ancestry, or 56 %, signed a petition supporting the restoration of Queen Liliʻuokalani and opposed annexation. 46 out of 96 US Senators voted in favor of annexation, or about 48%.it failed as it needed a 2/3 majority to win, or 67%. So as you can see, even the petition failed to reach the 2/3 majority you are so obsessed with. The annexation went through after a change in the presidency and the Spanish American War. The 39,000 people of some degree of Hawaiian Ancestry made up only about 25 percent of the population of Hawaii. The vast majority of the other people here, supported joining the USA. Try to color it how you want; the desire for a minority ruling elite, based on ethnic origins, to assert a desire to continue to dominate the majority of a population, is racist and undemocratic. It is no different than any other ethnic nationalism. Claiming priority based on ancestry is the province of aristocracy and elitism. There are over 500,000 people who claim some Hawaiian ancestry, over half of them live on the mainland. They are allowed free travel and the right to settle wherever they want. To marry whomever they want. They are US citizens and have access to any and all schools, federal and state programs and the right to own and sell property. On top of this, they have access to publicly funded programs that benefit only them, schools that only accept them, etc. They are not victims. They were never enslaved, treated as second class citizens etc. Contrary to popular myths, they were never forbidden to speak their language. Publicly funded schools had to be taught in english, but private schools were allowed to teach Hawaiian, Japanese, Chinese, Portuguese etc. In a time of rampant racism, white people married into Hawaiian families. Their off spring were accepted into militaries and schools around the world, nor were they ever segregated. Queen Liliʻuokalani was a staunch supporter of the Confederacy both during and after the Civil War, which partly explains the support she received from the Democratic Party, primarily made of southern whites, of the USA. She, like a lot of Hawaiians today, was derogatory of African Americans. The overthrow of the monarchy was a complex process, with wrongs committed by people on both sides. Cherry picking history to lay blame and assert contemporary rights is dubious at best. Kamehameha I "united" the islands and founded the royal dynasty by conquest and tens of thousands of deaths. It was only made possible by his adoption of European arms and tactics. Go further back and the dominance of people of Tahitian ancestry over the majority of Hawaiian people of Marquesas ancestry, creating the Ali'i and Kapu system of government was equally egregious. Are you prepared to restore the rights of those long dead people?

J Denmark - dude, you’re way off base. So many inaccuracies it’s hard to know where to start. It’s like you’ve been getting your history lessons from Sanford Dole himself. This isn’t the 1900s anymore.

chris inhawaii - auē kēia poʻe haole naʻaupō wale e walawalaʻau mai nei. Tsā.

@@kpaukeaho6180 just because it isn't the 1900's or the 1800's doesn't give you the right to revisionist propaganda. Try reading the contemporary accounts of the activities of those times, instead of relying on information generated in the 21 first century. You should try getting some history lessons from all sides of an issue, it might provide you with better insight into current events. Or are you so close minded that you believe Sanford Dole was evil incarnate?

Infamous? How?

It might take a little bit of time for the auto-generated captions to appear. I'll try to get em out there.

Try later in few hours

Yes! Basic knowledges.

Mad Masseur not all schools. And it’s very limited. They don’t go in depth about the genocide and supression of hawaiian language and culture that happened which completely destroyed our people. Everyone’s too high and happy living in “paradise” they just want to forget about us and let us just eventually die out

Hiki iā ‘oe ke hele aku i kau mau keiki i nā kula like’ole no ke a’o ana mai i ka ‘ōlelo makuahine o Hawai’i. Inā ‘oe makemake e a’o mai, hiki nō.

I go to pearl city high but yeah we have hawaiian here im part hawaiian and asian with white in me but yee

No! Make Hawaii Polynesian again!

@@jayson4602 smh

funny

I think you’re confusing a genetic study with historic reality.... Polynesians as a people have Austronesian and Melanesian ancestry, but all of the monarchs of Hawaiʻi from Kamehameha I to Liliʻuokalani have been entirely of Hawaiian ancestry going back centuries and centuries.

Bruh are you fucking dumb

Melanesian from Africa

He doesn't usually do videos like that, but extra credits and others have some great videos on Celtic mythology

@@roamingalone8362 I know but I was looking for a more indept look. Maybe looking at lesser gods.

SoCal Surfer 88 I’m glad there’s people like you who understand how we feel. However most Hawaiians aren’t hatefully racist we just want America to give Hawaiians more government over ourselves. I’m not sure if hawaii could become sovereign but it could atleast be native hawaiian-controlled.

@@outsidechambaz Sadly it will never happen! Democracy is a good weapon against our people. The White House will say they support us to get back the control of our islands but only after a referendum. And because we don't even make up 10% of people in Hawaii, we will lose again and again. Hawaii is an Asian privilege state and Asians will never give it up. The only US state where the White aren't the majority and where Asians are the main group. And it will grow up with all Asians who immigrate to here. We are like the Chamorros in Guam. Only Natives will vote for yes. And because we will never ever be the majority again, we will always lose. The White House knows it pretty well. There is a good reason if Native Hawaiians just like any Natives in other US territory don't have any control over immigration. The more Asian immigrants, the less Natives can gain a vote. We are fucked up!

Not racist, just wanting the restoration of our sovereignty wrongfully taken from us by threat of force from a colonial power. The anger isn’t directed towards race - most Hawaiians are a mix of multiple races - rather it’s directed towards the colonizer who exploits, takes, and destroys the land for a profit and personal leisure.

Ben - I don’t think that’s entirely accurate. Look to the work of Bumpy Kanahele. That’s the route forward towards independence. Plus we’re at a bit over 20%, not 10%. And that doesn’t include half of our population living in California/the states. If OHA would do something useful like sponsor the repatriation of our people from the states, combined with grassroots action like Bumpy’s in Waimanalo expanded to other areas, then the route to independence becomes clear. Others will get on board with the vision when it’s about the love of Hawaiʻi and protecting the welfare and life of the islands. Won’t be easy, but we have to believe it’s possible. A i ke aloha ʻāina hope loa, e mau ke ea o ka ʻāina i ka pono.

@@jayson4602 how many kanaka in pourcentage are uou In hawai'i ?