hawaii backlash against tourists? for some people the aloha spirit is one mile

[msongs]

wide and a micron deep. Yet these same people will be wanting bailouts when the tourist biz collapses.

Almost all diagnosed cases in Hawaii are from island residents returning home NOT visitors.

https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2020/03/21/doh-worries-there-is-stigma-developing-against-visitors-hawaii/

[HAB911]

1. think about it this way

if they were on a native american reservation and did that, would you feel the same way?

[Hekate]

5. No answer yet after all these hours. Thanks for pointing this out though...

...as an awful lot of DUers really don't see Hawaiians as a distinct people with their own vulnerabilities, culture, concerns, and thoughts. Tourism may be the biggest employer, but -- no, they don't exist merely to entertain you (nor, in reference to earlier battles here, to unquestioningly turn over an important cultural site to "science" ) .

Do I think tourists should go home in the current crisis? I think they should definitely consider it for their own health, don't you?

[HAB911]

7. yes

Another sad tale of our expansion as a nation, for even worse reasons than our own west, GREED CAPITALISM.

On Jan. 17, 1893, Hawaii's monarchy was overthrown when a group of businessmen and sugar planters forced Queen Liliuokalani to abdicate. The coup led to the dissolving of the Kingdom of Hawaii two years later, its annexation as a U.S. territory and eventual admission as the 50th state in the union.

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/americans-overthrow-hawaiian-monarchy


http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/7/11/hawaiian-natives-waiting-for-land.html

[SWBTATTReg]

2. I expect that this is going to spread to all states w/ large tourist populations, e.g., FL and...

Spring Break mess.

[bluescribbler]

3. I am unsurprised

Having spent a lot of time on the coast of Maine during the summer over the past 20+ years, I often see a bumper sticker, often on a pickup truck, reading "If it's tourist season, why can't we shoot them?" I also recall when I was in Hawaii in the early 1970's, the locals were often hostile to the tourists and military personnel there. We were called, "haoles", a derogatory term for non Hawaiians.

[Hekate]

6. My experience growing up in the Islands was that the meaning of haole depended on ...

...the tone of voice and often on the added adjectives. I mean to say, "local haole," like "local boy," was warm.

"Fucking haole" was decidely hostile.

[mainer]

4. Can you blame them?

They want to close off the islands, the same way most of us want to close off our homes. They are uniquely susceptible to food shortages.