Brah i said 25 years ago maui gon turn into waikiki

​@mauicolon628 It's heading that way. I went to Oahu to see my friend after the fire happened and it's so comparable at the direction its going. I blame the influence from the outside moving in and bringing their own ideas that we don't entirely relate to. I miss the times from even 15-20 years ago where Maui was not as developed as it was now with a lot of empty storefronts. I knew plenty businesses that were family owned that had to close down due to rent costs and even inflation now

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Sad that it’s already happening 😢, more Aloha on the mainland than here in Hawaii!!

Stupid mainlanders moving here making it their home no more Malama aina. Condos being built. Pushing us out. I’m staying til my last breath. This is my home. My ancestral aina.

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As a former resident of Hawaii 1968-1989 I never thought it would get this bad. When I moved to Hawaii I immediately respected all the original locals. It was a wonderful experience and I'll never lose the Aloha Spirit. It's been 55 years now. People like you described need to be put in their place. If I was there I would speak right up to them. Posters in every shop, restaurant and business. I think the flights to Hawaii should all have an Aloha Hawaii greeting and an explanation of Aloha Spirit. Get the message across that the Hawaiian way is to return the Aloha Spirit everywhere you go. And have a beautiful time while you're here. Posters could have the Aloha Spirit artistically done. The whole reason everyone went to Hawaii was the experience with the beautiful people and the beautiful Hawaiian culture. The traffic is crazy now. I was the first girl to have a motorcycle it was a Honda 50. It got me to UH and work in Waikiki. It was so cool back then. 🤙

Why are you blaming people from the mainland? Majority of the people that are moving to Hawaii or actually from the Philippines and other countries, not America. The Philippines has the highest number of immigrants recently.

Polynesians didn’t migrate because our previous islands couldn’t sustain us, they only did that in Rapa Nui, which is a very small portion of Polynesians & it’s believed they simply returned back to other Polynesian nations to be reabsorbed amongst the populations. The majority of Polynesians were simply looking to expand and populate the pacific and were also curious explorers.

@@The.Hawaiian.Kingdom Very good to know💕 Mahalo 🤙

@@carolferguson19 ‘A’ole pilikia, e Carol. 🤙🏽

Oh on the topic of Rapa Nui, I just want to mention that while it’s been the belief that the people of Rapa Nui cut down all the trees to “walk to mo’ai” (stone figures), now that we know how it was done, & that no trees were even used, many people believe it was actually rats brought over from settler colonizers that may possibly have over reproduced and ate all the trees. I’m not sayin the OP suggested otherwise, I’m just throwing that out there. 😁 It obviously would have been very odd for Polynesians, who are notorious for being stewards of the land, would have ever cut down all the trees.

@@The.Hawaiian.Kingdom "I'm just throwing that out there." No, you're eager to post another negative portrayal of "settler colonizers", without admitting that those words apply to "Polynesians". You wrote "Polynesians were simply looking to expand and populate the pacific [sic]". That fits the definition of "settler colonizer" perfectly. As for rats, the POLYNESIAN RAT (Rattus exulans) is the 3rd most widespread on Earth. Polynesians spread them across the Pacific.

So are you blaming Willie Shipman for this price increase Not sure what your point is here?

If Shipman bought it, then someone SOLD it. The estate of Lunalilo? It takes two to tango. Looks like you want to blame "the Shipman Family" for buying some land. But they could not buy it, unless someone SOLD it. Therefore, if you want to place blame, it would make more sense to blame the folks who SOLD the land. Or maybe your gripe is about the current value . . .

So vague, must be true

And this is not just the first mistake.More will be seen with other scapegoats available.

You hit it on the bullseye. Aloha spirit was passed on from generation to generation. Sad to say majority people living in Hawaii now is first generation. They never grew up with our culture now Hawaii culture is mirroring the mainland. Which is take care of yourself first never mind about the other people.

Exactly you got it 💕🙏✌️ Mahalo nui loa🌅🤙

Absolutely. Love those who are here from before. Anyone around that time already know what true Aloha means. I worry for the future generations to come

BULLCRAP. Only racial Hawaiians can get a homestead lot for $1 per year for 99 years. Homestead lands amount to over 200,000 acres. Kamehameha Schools, for racial Hawaiians ONLY, has even more land than Hawaiian Homesteads -----> 363,852 acres. Plus, they have over 15 BILLION USD worth of assets. The first COLONIZERS here came from Marquesas and/or Tahiti, and their descendants became known as Hawaiians. You can't afford $1 per year to lease one acre of land?

are not able to be "PRICED OUT OF PARADISE".? What do you mean?

We ARE, that’s the entire point of this clip.

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This was so good to hear because it can get better‼️ Absolutely only Hawaii can. It's in your nature to do good and pass it on. I lived there in 1968 and had nice local friends. We were all struggling with school and work and had no money. Everything else was good🤙

Beautifully put🤙

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To icebiker3: The 3rd sentence in your post is nonsense. There's no such word "kapuna" in the Hawaiian language. Maybe you meant "kupuna", but that means "ancestor". You claim that ancestors tricked Hawaiians into violating taboos? To get human sacrifices? That's bogus. Chiefs could sacrifice anyone. No "trick" needed. All they had to do was tell their ilāmuku to fetch so-and--so and have him sacrificed. No trick needed, and no violation needed. Just the chief's order, that's all.

Thanks for the correction. But in my defense, so many Hawaiian words are similar. I actually meant "kahuna".@@gregcarter8656

Sounds like Kona.

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You just cannot stop yourself from making RACIST posts on KZfaq. You love to SEGREGATE people into 2 categories: "Hawaiians" versus "Non-Hawaiians", based on RACE. And you love to portray Hawaiians as GOOD, and Non-Hawaiians as BAD. To you, Hawaiians are the perfect innocent native VICTIMS, while Non-Hawaiians are the evil villain OPPRESSORS. But your lies are exposed by the Kamehameha Schools, with 363,852 acres of land and over 15 BILLION USD in assets.

Isn't this what govt. officials have been waiting for all these years? Without tourism here and especially for Maui residents it's going to take years before things get better and Oahu isn't far behind. Travelers are already skipping trips here due to crimes against them. Japan visitors spend the most but soon that will end as their vists will be elsewhere. Even local generation Y can't afford to live where most were born and raised.

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