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Question: Any other haoles got bad treatment or racist comments from the locals in hawaii?

(Posted by: The Red Star Against Capitalism on 2010-02-06 18:34:30)

I'm just asking this out of curiosity, as I'm haole as hell (from the mainland too!) and am somewhat of a cultural chameleon so I blend in very quickly, but I've gotten nothing but aloha from the local aina, even from the moke dudes who seem to hate every haole they come across lol just my local experience, or does everyone in Hawaii get along so well as I do? is racism isolated, or is it just a few bad eggs?

Posted by: Beckee on 2010-02-06, 18:54:07

There are pockets of it here and there. I really didn't run into any I can remember in the four years I was going to UH, but I do see it and hear of it in the schools sometimes. I think if you went to the wrong surfbreak and dropped in on someone's wave, or looked at the wrong girl in Waikiki at 4 AM, or were just in middle school, you would see it in a hurry. It's important to realize that some Local kids give each other just as much grief as they give anybody else, if not more. There are some hair trigger tempers out there, and things might get racial in a hurry, even if the conflict wasn't about race to begin with. It's just another form of escalation.

Posted by: Gray Area on 2010-02-06, 18:42:29

Just a few bad eggs. Happens anywhere you go.

Posted by: boomer gal on 2010-02-06, 19:22:43

I am an RN & occasionally I care for a patient who makes it clear one way or the other that he or she doesn't much care for haole folks, but in my personal life I haven't had any trouble. I think Beckee made some good points. A lot of it depends on the places you frequent & how you carry yourself.

Posted by: Joseph on 2010-02-07, 03:04:45

Just drive like an idiot anywhere and you'll probably get a "F-en Haole! "

Posted by: kowana7cloud on 2010-02-07, 05:21:25

U people not in the danger zone

Posted by: Flower on 2010-02-07, 16:41:42

I experienced reverse racism more in the country but not as much in Honolulu where it is less provincial and more diverse. I felt the resentment of local people when I lived there many years ago. At that time there were lots of hippie girls roaming the islands and every haole girl from the Mainland was labeled a hippie. The local women resented haole girls from the Mainland dating local men. All the ethnic groups have some characteristic that separates them. That was the only time in my life I felt reverse racism. Eventually I left and went to a very white area on the Mainland.

Posted by: Willow Natalia on 2010-02-10, 09:01:04

Yup, just a few bad eggs. I've lived in Hawaii all my life, daughter of the Navy, and am haole. When I was in elementary school, 2nd or 3rd grade, I got picked on a little but that's just kids being kids. They'll pick on anything different until they figure out how best to deal with it. As a teen in high school (and I went to a high school with a lot of "moke/ tita " types) I was never picked on. As an adult, I've never had any problems. I know there are those on both sides that think they're better than the other and act accordingly, but I've yet to meet any of them.