Hawaii and Puerto Rico are beautiful places that are like inner city ghettos and Indian reservations in that the locals have a backward culture and a resentful frame of mind. Even when showered with money and opportunity, most of the people there fail to advance. Those who do usually move out and distance themselves from their origins. And, of the locals who remain, a sense of compassion nevertheless leads us to see their genuine human virtues and hope that they will somehow find better days — even as we know better.
“...the locals have a backward culture and a resentful frame of mind. Even when showered with money and opportunity...”
`Native’ Hawaiians (da bruddahs) practice a quaint custom called “Beat up a Haole Day”.