Well, I lived there prior to it becoming a state so....... I was known as a haoli(sp) punk by local punks. LOL! 4th, 5th and most of the 6th grade there.
Calling a white person a haoli is equivelant to calling a black person the “n” word, or a hispanic a s*ic”.
There is no difference.
Well then, you know exactly what I mean, however any normal person could figure it out if they kept their eyes open while living there, before or after statehood.
My mother spent a few years in Hawaii back in the late 1950s.
She was there as a 12-15-year-old. She said lots of native Hawaiian children treated them like dirt. “Haole”[howly] was what they were called on daily basis.