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1 posted on 01/30/2008 8:10:36 AM PST by ECM
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That’s actually very well done and frames the issue perfectly.


28 posted on 01/30/2008 8:59:51 AM PST by wideminded
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30 posted on 01/30/2008 9:10:02 AM PST by Albion Wilde ("How [Obama] stumbled onto Walter Mondale's political philosophy is beyond me." —Tony Blankley)
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I spent a lot of time in Hawaii from 2005 to 2007, and have some comments. This might get me flamed from the Hawaiian Freepers, but c'est la vie.

Hawaii is beautiful, but outside of the tourist areas, and especially on the non-tourist parts of Oahu, it is a third world nation with a socialist culture. People, especially the natives, live modestly. The look and feel of the real cities and villages is more like Puerto Rico and Jamaica than rural America. To their credit, Hawaiians are comfortable with this lifestyle. But I did not feel like I was in America as I spent time there.

The cultural matters are significant. In Hawaiian schools, there is one day a year with a Hawaiian name, which translated means "Kill Haole." Yes, it's all in jest, but the big Hawaiian bullies come out and treat the white kids pretty savagely, sometimes resorting to real violence. It is rationalized that this unofficial celebration is needed to expiate Hawaiians legitmate anger at English and American conquestion and occupation in the 19th century, but the notion of a ceremonial day, even unofficial and technically nonviolent, where natives "celebrate" killing innocent whites is extremely racist and adamantly unAmerican. But they get away with it.

Taxes are really high, too, and without tourism the island would be mired in misery. And the media is further left than that in New York or Los Angeles.

I know people who have moved there from the mainland for work, and leave within a year or two because unless you can afford the tuition at elite private schools, the public school system is horrible. And it has a ghetto mentality, so the white kids either join it or are totally ostracized.

As an observant Southern Californian, I find far more acculturation in the worst part of our Hispanic ghettos than in Hawaii.

The Senators who opposed statehood in 1959 said that Hawaii would never fit culturally with the rest of the USA. After spending much time there, I personally agree with them.

This is also a reason why we should never admit Puerto Rico as a state.

[Asbestos suit on. Flame away.]

31 posted on 01/30/2008 9:33:33 AM PST by tom h
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I can see why they want this censored. Effective parody exposes their P.C. crusade. And this is very effective!


36 posted on 01/30/2008 9:57:22 AM PST by colorado tanker
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