Lady Berates Lyft Driver Over Hawaiian Bobblehead Doll

This lady is why I could never be a Lyft driver. We have raised a generation of possible some of the worst human beings ever.
newtboysays...

You can't fix stupid.
Annalise Nielson, huh? Your parents have failed miserably.
I somehow doubt she'll be getting too many Uber or Lyft rides in the near future....at least not rides that end at her destination.

ulysses1904says...

Whenever something irritates me this much on the Internet I have to first wonder if someone is trolling for effect. If not then she belongs in a sanitarium, I'll pay for the Lyft.

I'm just glad her type wasn't around when Hitler invaded Poland and the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. Oh wait, was that an insensitive reference to the continent of Hawaii?

poolcleanersays...

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

Jinxsays...

My brain gave up at like, the 5th, like, "like", yeah, so like, I can't really claim to have like, watched the video, so I am not like, gonna like it or w/e.

Jesus. I've heard "like" so much in my head that its crossed over into that weird place where the meaning of the word has completely disassociated itself with its sound. For small moment there I wasn't even sure that 4 letter word I'd written here in abundance was even a word at all.

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