@Sphinx @koyu Growing up in Hawaii is different from the mainland. We are probably one of the most progressive states. In the plantation days each ethic group formed their own unions to get better pay which the plantation owners responded to by just bringing people from other parts of the world over. Eventually the workers decided to work together despite cultural differences and as a result we are probably one of the most racially accepting and diverse states out there, there are still problems of course, but not like the mainland. Most people are multiethic, myself included, and prominent groups include Portuguese, Filipino, Japanese, Chinese, Hawaiian, Samoan, Caucasian, and Korean. Rich white people still exist and I went to school with them for a time, but that is also complex.
@Sphinx @koyu On my island at least the affluent Caucasian community is a bit different. They live in a quasi-bubble typically upcountry, like you will probably know some of them, especially through school or sports, and they still associate with locals and some of them play an important role in that community, but others can be really out of touch with the unspoken rules. My mom got into an arguement with one of them the other day who is her best friend because she tried to get involved with a heated arguement between two local people despite not being involved and potentially causes them to lose their volleyball court. My mom is local so she had to be the one to step in and tell her friend to mind her own business.
Your mom is a clever person, they said clever is more used in the UK, here use smart a lot. i learned this word from school, smart is i learned from life.🙂
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@Sphinx @koyu That's pretty cool! Your English is pretty good! Both are used often, although clever tends to mean using a smart trick or being smart in an unexpected way. It's a good word to know though, if you bend the rules of science or a game to do something neat, that's being clever! My dog is clever when she pretends to not have been fed to get a second meal.
Thank you and sorry for if i use the wrong word.
Caucasian is a new word to me and i just looked up...
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@Sphinx @koyu It's a bit weird since I am not really part of that community or the local one despite having been part of both at different stages of my life. I mean, it would be dishonest to say I am entirely separate from the bubble. I grew up in the local community, lived among the affluent sphere for a while for school, and went back to a local school and community to graduate. My twin brother looks more Caucasian than me, but he is more connected to the locals here. I am not really connected to any group, everyone knows who I am, but I mostly communicate with people who don't fit into either category. Going to college has been good, it's kind of like being a different version of myself since the structure and what perceptions there are are different, it's nice in some ways.
@Sphinx @koyu One last thing I should also mention is the LGBT and queer community in Hawaii. It's really strong and pretty much accepted. Openly trans people are common and gays are everywhere. I initially learned to program from a mtf astronomer. I remember my highschool robotics club was pretty much all lesbians. In the local community there is also a form of expression called Māhū and lots of volleyball players are it. I cannot give that deep an exploration into the topic since I am not part of the community, but I think it is a good example of how the cruelty of various parts of the mainland does not need to exist, and LGBT welcoming society can and does exist and lives better because of it.
Thank you for your fully introduction. sometimes i saw Asian people like me i don't know what language to use to talk with them at the beginning, and i also learned that someone can speak same language as me doesn't mean can be friend( there is one time i meet someone who can speak Chinese and also was born in China, but the conversation made me feel uncomfortable )
Hawaii is a place that i want to visit in the future. 🙂
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@Sphinx @koyu I sometimes walk down to the beach, but not much currently since classes have started. It's nice though, beaches are public property in Hawaii which means anyone has access to them, which is good otherwise hotels, developers, mainland and foreign multimillionaires, and celebrities would buy them up leaving nothing for the locals and Hawaiians. But the state of the world aside, there is no place like home. Walking for hours to get to empty stretch of beach to let the mind wander in solitude, to see how beauty still exists understated in the world in places not well known, it's a good feeling. Going to the mainland has opened my eyes, the world I lived is not as universal as I thought, and the world over there suffers in its delusions of generality.