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What did you get from Santa for Christmas 2020?

Brett327

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I don’t celebrate Christian holidays, but the Goddess Pele granted me an extremely photogenic eruption at the Kilauea caldera during my winter repose, yielding some of the coolest footage I’ve ever shot. Mele kalikimaka, bitches. 😀
 
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Brett327 said:
I don’t celebrate Christian holidays, but the Goddess Pele granted me an extremely photogenic eruption at the Kilauea caldera during my winter repose, yielding some of the coolest footage I’ve ever shot. Mele kalikimaka, bitches. 😀
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IDK Brett, I appreciate your observation of local customs but you seem about as Hawaiian as Emma Stone in the movie “Aloha.” Although, you do run a missile launch range so….
 
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Griz882 said:
IDK Brett, I appreciate your observation of local customs but you seem about as Hawaiian as Emma Stone in the movie “Aloha.” Although, you do run a missile launch range so….
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You don’t have to try very hard to fit in here, and local folks appreciate it. Hawaii, in some respects, is a little like living abroad… especially on Kauai, so a little cultural assimilation is a good thing.
 
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HSMPBR said:
Also, being born on the island doesn’t make one a native Hawaiian any more than being born in Dallas makes one a Comanche.
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There’s a complex and stratified social hierarchy that bestows some with this weird kind of trump card if they object to something that someone is doing. Kind of fascinating to watch people trot out their lineage in an effort to determine who is disrespecting whom (or disrespecting the land, culture, etc). I’ve seen Native Hawaiians go from happy go lucky to permanently aggrieved in two seconds flat. Its a weird form of whataboutism that ends in “yeah, but you stole our land.”

All of this to say, it’s definitely something you want to stay on the right side of, especially when you represent the US government. I could write a book about this stuff. This sounds negative, but it isn’t a big deal for your day to day existence.

Anyway… cheers, and Aloha. 🤙
 

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