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No need for panic at all if you listened to the crew. It's not like the roof blew off like the Hawaiian Airlines plane.

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Hawaiian shirt guy is now a meme. Wild that this happened in my city.

Hawaiian Panther

It is amazing that Hawaiians essentially live on top of volcanoes!

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The invasions and cultural genocides we inflicted on natives are two of America's greatest national crimes. I could fully support giving back the undeveloped private island of Niihau and barely developed Molokai to a native Hawaiian nation. I had no idea there was a movement to regain sovereignty.

I fail to see how the depiction of the luna dance is offensive to Hawaiians. I wonder if she would be offended by my DVD copy of Lilo & Stitch? Or my wife's Lilo bobblehead.

Some history: Protestants banned hula in the 19th century, so the celebration of this traditional dance seems to me to be empowering versus the censorship of what the Protestants called "heathen". Sure, the introduction of the Portuguese ukulele and other Western aesthetics changed the art form, but it's practiced in both modern and traditional forms today.

You also can't simply demonize the cross-pollination of cultures, because cultural values are always changing. Hawaiian and Polynesian culture went through many changes and forms long before anyone from the West showed up on their shores. The luau itself is partly symbolic of women's rights (as well as lower class rights) in Hawaiian culture, as before the luau, women were not allowed to eat the same food as men, and commoners could not eat with royalty or eat their royal Hawaiian food.

This change didn't happen until the 1800s, so it's likely that this level of equality within the Hawaiian culture is due in part to European contact, including the the King who himself became a Christian -- and yet also encouraged the luna dance.

When cultures make contact with each other, they become entangled. They influenced us and we influenced them -- and they're Americans now so deal with it. I once had pictures of Italian Americans on my wall (Godfather/Scarface posters) and my grandma has a Jew on her crucifix. Neither of us are Italian or Jewish. LOL

There's nothing quite like the look on a woman's face right as she finds out her cross-species Hawaiian birth twin was the victim of fratricide. Where is Cartman to collect these unique tears?

So wait...am I racist because I had a Hawaii themed party last year? Am I sexist because I and other men there wore flower pattern skirts and coconut bras? We played native Hawaiian music, but no one tried to Hula...I was afraid we'd get it wrong and anger the volcano.
I also threw a 'white trash' party last year, and built an outhouse and still in my front yard for it. Am I a self hating honkey?

The 'white twitter' thing is weird, because there IS a 'black twitter', isn't there? I hear it reported about all the time.

You can take every person on this planet and put them on one Hawaiian island. Would be crowded.

If the scientific method was being used, then there wouldn't be any scientists who would disbelieve it. But not everyone is together on this. How do you know that volcanoes don't affect the global climate more than humans?

Everything old is new again... in one of the Gidget movies - I think it was Gidget Goes Hawaiian (or perhaps from the series with Sally Field) there is a scene where Gidge goes snorkeling with a full face mask covering eyes, nose and mouth, and has two snorkel tubes attached directly to the mask coming out the top, with U-bends and floating ball "seals" that block water when you take a dunk. Nothing new, just came around the sun again....

That was pretty amazing.

@tomspeed Hawaii is a lot like that as well. It's especially valuable there since something like 90% of hawaiian inhabitants aren't of hawaiian descent (a mix of American, Asian and South-Pacific Islanders), but their culture is kept alive by tradition and respect for their history.
I love culture. I have to go research this now because I don't know anything about it, but I should would have appreciated it if it were part of my youth.