Posted on 01/16/2023 6:14:56 AM PST by Red Badger
"Aloha." "Hola." "Shalom."
These are ways to say "hello" in Hawaiian, Spanish and Hebrew, respectively. But just because you can say something doesn't mean it's always appropriate.
On the surface, simple greetings and phrases from other races and cultures may seem fine to sprinkle into our vernacular. Inclusive even.
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.'"
If you're not Hawaiian and you say it, it could come off as mockery. And that's just one word to think about.
The use of certain words requires education, knowledge and the foresight to understand when they should – or shouldn't – come out of your mouth.
'We live in a multilingual world' Of course, not all uses of language outside someone's culture are problematic.
"We live in a multilingual world where we're always influencing one another's language practices hand where we might come into contact with a variety of terms or language practices that we have not grown up in," says Nikki Lane, cultural and linguistic Anthropologist.
Intention matters most. Dropping "hola" or "shalom" to someone you know who speaks Spanish or Hebrew, for example, isn't something to worry about. Actively don a fake, exaggerated accent and say those words? Therein lies the problem.
Like saying "ni hao" to someone Asian American who isn't Chinese; this could be both othering and a microaggression.
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I had no idea such a thing even existed. Learn something every day. /s
Always? That don’t be true.
Oops…. He is a she. Or then again, I didn’t double check its pronoun for today.
They may sound funny, but at least they are understandable!.......😜
Amen. Do these morons have ANYTHING worthwhile to write about?
RLTW
How about, “Hasta la vista” in a robotic Austrian accent?
I can assure you that at least Germans would have a very hard time adhering to such an injunction.
Regards,
What in Blue Blazes?
Regards,
No. It is time to kill all people who are woke.
To those who care so much about microaggressions, I use a distinctive American phrase:
“F*** You”
It means: “I know you’re offended. And I don’t care. Go away before I taunt you again.”
I am as conservative as they come - but "adopted" (or "expropriated," if you like) the namaste a few years back because I like it, so there!
Though I've never used it in greeting an Asian.
Regards,
“Intention matters most. Dropping “hola” or “shalom” to someone you know who speaks Spanish or Hebrew, for example, isn’t something to worry about. Actively don a fake, exaggerated accent and say those words? Therein lies the problem.”
These idiots are insufferable.
Watch John Kerry when he is on a Asian trip sometime, he uses it every time..................
Hafa adai, kia ora, talofa, and to the petty, aloha.
Well, I’ve never been to Spain
But I kinda like the music
Say the ladies are insane there
And they sure know how to use it
It is HONERING a culture by taking the effort to leave your cultural vocabulary and insert another culture’s. I’m now woke to this woke BS. (Woke2?) While I was”sleeping”, queers and brain-dead people took over our churches and governments. They have attacked my values while I slept. Now a “woke2”, I am counter-attaching and in MY world it is already becoming right again.
Let’s go back to arguing about how many angels can dance of the tip of a pin. It would be far more productive ... hell, it would be far more productive — and interesting (which isn’t much) — of arguing over the TP roll should be over or under. God help our “enlightened society.”
I’ve heard that phrase in other countries as well. It must be universal!.............
Hard pass from me!
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