Is it time to stop saying 'aloha' and other culturally sensitive words out of context?

https://www.yahoo.com ^ | January 13, 2023 | David Oliver

[al baby]

Aloha Mr Hand......... Aloha Mr Spicolli

[Red Badger]

[Tom Tetroxide]

Shalom! (parody commercial)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLdgPOPEBaE&ab_channel=NeuroTrashTV

[The_Media_never_lie]

Liberal idiocy is obviously contagious.

[chajin]

EVERY language has implications in its simple words that are lost in translation.

In English, “good bye” is a shortened version of “God be with ye,” so should an ESL speaker not say it to an English-speaking agnostic?

This crap is like “Merry Christmas” on steroids. If people don’t have better things to worry about, they should be ecstatic.

[Cincinnatus.45-70]

Is it time to eliminate “Taco Bell” from public discourse?

[z3n]

¡Ay, caramba!

[Red Badger]

This professor is educated waaay beyond their intelligence.....................

[al baby]

Sure if you are into butt stuff go for it enjoy

[Red Badger]

I eliminate “Taco Bell” at least once a month.................

[Drew68]

But did you know that "aloha" doesn't just mean hello or goodbye? "It's a greeting or a farewell, but the meaning is deeper," says Maile Arvin, the director of Pacific Islands Studies at the University of Utah. "One of my Hawaiian language teachers taught it to me as 'Aloha means recognizing yourself in everyone and everything you meet.'"

We need to mock these people and certainly not listen to anything they have to say.

Maile Arvin

"Dr. Maile Arvin is an assistant professor of History and Gender Studies at the University of Utah. She is a Native Hawaiian feminist scholar who works on issues of race, gender, science and colonialism in Hawai‘i and the broader Pacific. At the University of Utah, she is part of the leadership of the Pacific Islands Studies Initiative, which was awarded a Mellon Foundation grant to support ongoing efforts to develop Pacific Islands Studies curriculum, programming and student recruitment and support.

Arvin’s first book, Possessing Polynesians: The Science of Settler Colonial Whiteness in Hawaiʻi and Oceania, was published with Duke University Press in 2019. In that book, she analyzes the nineteenth and early twentieth century history of social scientists declaring Polynesians “almost white.” The book argues that such scientific studies contributed to a settler colonial logic of possession through whiteness..."

[Theophilus]

Give em the one finger shaka!

[Red Badger]

I took two years of HS Spanish in 1970-71.

Al I can say is “Vamos a la biblioteca!”......

[dforest]

I think they like the power they get when they start something stupid like this and people obey.

[moovova]

I agree.

It’s time to say “au revoir” to “aloha”!

[Red Badger]

Si!........................

[Mr. K]

Yes... “it’s time”

The only state-approved salutation from now will be:

“Greetings, Comrade”

[Red Badger]

“It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.”
― George Orwell, 1984

[rlmorel]

Many things have multiple meanings and with that in mind, I would say to the author most sincerely for bringing up these most important and unifying of issues in the world, as my Southern Friends might say:

"Well, bless your heart!"

Or, as my Aussie friends would put it:

"Good on ya, Mate!"

[z3n]

I took french and we never learned ‘Sacre Bleu!’ but i love dropping it. I believe it is also considered a misnomer and a cultural faux pas.