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.
Lucky for me I developed a thick hide early in life then. LOL! Talked to a young lady years later, well decades actually, who grew up on the windward side of Oahu and she took abuse for being a haoli “b” word when she was a kid/teenager there. Some things never change.
As a superior white, being called a haoli is recognition of that superiority
LOL. I remember some Asians hissing at me something which sounded like “Lo Buck Choi”. I am sure it was some type of racial epithet.
This is an interesting conversation. My first sea duty tour was at Barbers Point in the early-mid-70’s. Mrs. Afterguard and I had been married about a year. We lived in Wahiawa, up in the hills, and found the locals without exception open, helpful, and friendly. Mrs. Afterguard worked on the economy there. Even while I was away on multiple 6 month deployments I never worried about her because of the friends we had made. We absolutely loved Hawaii and traveled several times to both Kawaii and Maui and found the locals the same kind people wherever we went. We were really disappointed when the only shore duty I could get was at Moffett Field in CA. Tried several times to get re-located there but never happened.
We found that the main reason “haolis” felt excluded is because of their own attitude about being there. I can’t tell you how many people kept complaining about being stuck “On the Rock”. For the most part these were the folks that felt they were discriminated against by the locals. They just never tried to fit in.
As an odd aside to this story, there was one Petty Officer in the squadron that was a “native Hawaiian”, big guy that would boast of his Samoan ancestry. He called everybody haolis, but you never called him a moke unless you were looking for a beatdown. Ended up in trouble in town and never saw him after that.
There is no difference.
There is a big difference. You can call me a haoli all day long and it wouldn't bother me one bit. Same with most whites. Words are a slur only if you let them be one. Call me haoli, cracker, white bread, whatever. It has no effect on me because I don't let others control my emotions with words.
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.
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Yeah, tell all your Gwielo friends that in China Town. /S
Or non-Jews called Goyim, Chinese called Chinks, queers called faggots...
Why can't we all just get along? < /sarc >