How much Hawaiian are you? Both parents are 100% or is one parent mixed or the and the other ones mixed and so on just curious

@@justmejm Mom is full Hawaiian and my dad is Japanese.

@@galaxykidM5 Why would you try to school someone on *’ōlelo* Hawai’i when you don’t even know how to SPELL *’ŌLELO* correctly?!? Add the kahakō (-). PS: writing in pidgin doesn’t give you credibility at all, in fact it makes you look like you’re trying to pretend you’re Hawaiian. “Look, I’m so Hawaiian, not only do I speak in pidgin, I write in pidgin too” 😂🤣😂🤣😂

Hawaiians are true Americans

@@bertfukuda559 daang, your gifteed, you one 50/50 and your parent is 100% kanaka, that is one strong lineage

Thank you for sharing and I appreciate the support on the videos 🙏

I want to live there because I’m depressed from American culture. We have no family values here. Just mean.

Hawaii got a lot of Pinoy there acting Hawaiian

Tourists are crazy destroying the Island

@@staylitpar Even here in the mainland. I’m a San Jose local born and raised with family roots in Hawaii. I’ve notice a lot of Flips around here tend to think they’re somehow related to Hawaiians and Samoans. I think it has something to do between the similarities in pacific island cultures

Yeap, a lot of us respect your culture sadly it isn't mutual.

@@kevinprzy4539 what’s not mutual?

I hate when people litter too. The land is our home and people don’t care.

@@porplemanvr that's EVERYWHERE that tourists visit.

Hi I am 60 percent Hawaiian. I served and found for this great country America. I am a American and proud to be a American. Remember when Hawaii had a chance to have there Hawaiian kingdom and the Hawaiian movement did not want to acknowledge America as her mother country. And what happened then everything went put the window. OHA needs to do alot more for the Hawaiian people. But to say your Hawaiian first and not American in this video is just crazy. Kamehameha schools are funded be the federal government and are the best schools in Hawaii. There's alot of kids would like to go but they can't pass the test so there swept under the carpet. OHA needs to help these kids. America has been real good to Hawaii. I live in Ohio and retired from the federal government. Aloha from Ohio

Aloha uncle, @Gilbert Ah Sam. That’s great to hear that you’re proud to be an American. I feel that everyone should be proud to be who they are. I am proud to be a Hawaiian and proud to have been raised in Hawaii. I do remember the illegal annexation of Hawaii, as I’m sure you’ve learned about it from your Kumu (Teachers) and Kupuna (Ancestors). If you haven’t, then I would encourage to learn more about how wrong the American Government was to illegally annex the Kingdom of Hawaii. I agree that OHA needs to do more, but the American Government could do even more for Hawaii. Kamehameha Schools is not federally funded. To accommodate more students attending Kamehameha Schools there are now three Campuses. Kapalama Campus on O’ahu, Kea’au Campus on Hawaii Island, and Pukalani Campus on Maui. Not only that there are over 26 other Hawaiian charter schools through out the islands that are part of the Kamehameha Schools Kealapono Program. Like what other High school in America do you know has 3 campuses? You call it crazy, I call it pride. As I mentioned before, I am proud to be Hawaiian. I may be American, but I am Hawaiian first. Aloha!

Beautifully said.

@@KayKanahele Said with such grace, sister. Also, I think it is so special that you grew up on Ni'ihau. As a 24 year-old Kanaka from O'ahu, I don't know too much about what life is like on Ni'hau nor do I know anyone personally who grew up there. I would love to chat with you sometime and exchange mana'o if you'd like. Let me know! Aloha!

Dude respect as I don’t have those views but I also do not object to it as you are a true Hawaiian!!!❤️

@@mokukiwalao4284 I know that but it’s easier for others to understand to just say native Hawaiian.

I really appreciate this video… it came up on my feed cause I’ve been researching Hawai’ian language, spirituality, and history… I’m visiting the big island and staying in Puna region next month. Hanai would be an honor to experience!

Wiener man

Stay with a Sikh/Punjabi family next….

Mahalo for these videos!!! Can’t wait for the next ones!!

Regarding the term "haole", I believe what Kamaka was trying to say is that it brings out a lot of anger in Hawaiians. Kind of like when a Black or African American hears the "N" word used by a White or Caucasian person.....None the less, thank you for making this series of videos. Highlighting Hawaiian culture, you will see a lot of similarities in the Hawaiian and Pacific Island nations.

This my friend...is how you experience any culture. Good on you for reaching out to a local family instead of doing the typical tourist thing.

Sorry to break it to you, but that story is complete bs. Everyone spoke Hawaiian in Hawai’i back then, even foreigners, ‘ōlelo Hawai’i (Hawaiian language) was the main language, English was secondary… everyone spoke ‘ōlelo Hawai’i. In fact my grandfather was born in 1889 and he never spoke english AT ALL, EVER, he never learned it, he refused to, and he went through school speaking ONLY ‘ōlelo Hawai’i. It didn’t seem suspicious to you that amongst HAWAIIANS in The HAWAIIAN Kingdom, the teachers supposedly couldn’t understand her for speaking HAWAIIAN 😂🤣😂🤣😂??? No, sorry, but all the immigrant kids had to learn to speak Hawaiian, so did the teachers, in fact the teachers HAD to know how to speak ‘ōlelo Hawai’i back then, it was a requirement.

Im pretty sure they only gave land to english speakers. And only teaching in english seems like a tactic used by the white guys to gain power.

Flex dat.😅

Aw mahalo our Poly cousin. 🥰

Wow thank you for sharing about your upbringing Crystal! It’s awesome to see this renaissance of people celebrating their Hawaiian side - it’s beautiful and deserves to be recognized!

Hawaiian culture is beautiful! I'll have to visit the other side of the big island next time. Mahalo for the comment

@@markianb there is a restaurant here called Tex Drive Inn best Malasadas ever!!!

Funny thing is. (Being in Waikiki for the last 6 years) most tourist are respectful, kind, and just want to enjoy life. Most of the drama and pilau comes from residents themselves. But love deflecting on to others. Honokaa is sooo out of the way how do you even interact with tourist lol I interact on a daily basis. The comments talk like they are the reason this place has its problems. Nope.

It's misinformation.

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Technically the law made English the instruction language for publicly funded schools. I expect the missionaries that ran private schools did the same thing. I think most people had it bad in 1898. Mine were being starved by the British in Ireland, on the receiving end of violence, their language changed as well and other ancestors about to be engaged in a revolution/war in Poland. Thank goodness the Korean and Chinese went to Hawaii. It was about to get really bad in both those countries. If Japan bought Hawaii or succeeded in the match of royals with Hawaiian Princess and Japanese Prince would the axis powers taken part of mainland with Japan closer to US mainland to carry out an attack? Instead of Pearl Harbor would Japan have used Hawaii as a base and bombed LA instead? Would Japan leave Hawaiian’s to be Hawaiian today? Or would they all need to be Japanese or second class citizens in Japan like the Korean’s and others brought into the ‘empire’ between 1905-1945? Japan would have built have built their sort of buildings and infrastructure to the place like they did all the places they annexed as they pleased.

I miss you all too!

brah, can you tell me the band at the music festival party? I am on Oahu and driving me crazy that I cannot remember them. Mahalo!

@@kapioleilanionalanielua Kaʻikena

@@kpaukeaho6180 Mahalo!

ALOHA KAMAKA ❣JOB WELL DONE IN SHARING YOUR 🤙"ALOHA SPIRIT" with ACTION👍👍YOU & YOUR FAMILY ARE TRULY BLESSED. AMEN❣ ❤H A W A I I A N H E R O E S❤

Thank you for watching! The problem in my eyes is a lack of education and a lack of access to the right information. I visited Hawaii before this trip but I had no idea how the locals felt. I didn't know where to learn about it. I hope this series can be a place where foreigners are exposed to local Hawaiian culture 🤙

It IS a different country! We were ILLEGALLY annexed, that means we were never part of America but rather are still OCCUPIED by America to this day.

Tourists are the reason most poeple on the island have jobs...

@@VvvnimaL Not even remotely true, only 242,392 people out of our 1.442 million population work in the tourism sector. That’s nowhere near “most people”. Local businesses outside of tourist zones have always been reliant mainly on locals, not tourists. Tourism promotes people moving here, which heavily contributes to those tourists becoming residents and competing with locals for jobs and housing, resulting in Hawaiians and locals being displaced and forced out… meaning tourism HURTS “most” locals far more than it benefit us.

@@The.Hawaiian.Kingdom 242,392 is a lot out of 1.4million. Fail to see the taxes that come with that too that go back into the state. You can't deny that Hawaii relies on it as much as you don't like it. How about all the imports you need too?

Me too!

I appreciate the reflection and what drives me the most is understanding people’s perspectives from different backgrounds. The question about being American is the same for all of them but the answers are different. Having all the information allows you to make the most informed decision on your American-ness 😊🇺🇸

You have it BACKWARDS. The US tried to RESTORE the monarchy. You need education. Start with POTUS Grover Cleveland, Liliuokalani's personal friend.

You’re living in the past. My Chamorro family don’t cry like Hawaiians do about the past. We moved on and live our life.

@@frankiej510 your Chamorro ancestors rolled over and took up the butt by the western world since the 1600s. Hawaii was its own sovereign nation till just before the 20th century and we had to be overthrown illegally to give up our lands. So yeah, if your Chamorro family bitched about the same things we do… they’d just be bitches. Because they didnt share the same experiences

@@frankiej510 The chamorro people were never of an internationally recognized sovereign country, you weren’t unified under one leader, you didn’t have a constitution, a government, a national currency, a healthcare system, a military, schools, etc etc, you weren’t a country, and in accordance to international law you COULD be colonized and settled because you didn’t go through the process of proving you were capable of self governance (because you WERENT capable of self governance) which meant countries like Spain, the US, Germany were able to take control and govern you. You were never your own country. The Hawaiian Kingdom on the other hand gained international sovereign recognition in 1843 and became a legal country, therefore in accordance to international law we could only be taken over through a treaty. We never signed a treaty with the US (or anyone) wherein we relinquished our sovereignty and agreed to be absorbed into that country. THATS ILLEGAL, it’s a war crime. Get it? What happened to you, was completely legal… immoral, yes, but it WAS legal. What happened to The Hawaiian Kingdom was ILLEGAL. PS: Every chamorro I’ve ever met was a HUGE cry baby 😂, always whining about how you were done wrong, how you’re treated unfairly, how you have to work harder than everyone else… all the while living off of welfare, section 8, medicaid and food stamps paid for by people who ACTUALLY work, from a country you aren’t even part of. And you have the nerve to say chamorro don’t cry 😂🤣😂, you do literally nothing BUT cry.

CheeeHuuu...I don't blame you but brace yourself....these mainlanders probably will be flipping the USA (that includes you) into communism. 🙆

Jones is one of my family bloodlines here on Oahu! Maybe we are cousins! I have lots of cousins in Hilo, but the Jones name is too far back for any of us to have it. If you look up Wikipedia, William Claude Jones, that’s my great great grandfather. But we have other family bloodlines from Kailihao on Maui, Lono on Big Island and Holt/Stillman on Oahu.