I recently came across an opinion piece entitled, “Hawaii is not and will never be your vacation ‘paradise’” and I wanted to provide commentary as a local who grew up in Hawaii and is currently living here because some of the statements made in the article are pretty bold. More importantly, that opinion is but one opinion. There are many more.
I hope people outside of Hawaii understand that not all locals have such strong opposition to tourists visiting Hawaii. It seems that one of the most vocal narratives online about Hawaii is that locals don’t want tourists to come for a myriad of reasons. So I thought I’d provide another opinion about visitors coming to Hawaii.
We hear the term “sustainable tourism” and I think defining that term with well-defined benchmarks is key. Because until Hawaii figures out other economic industries that can work in Hawaii in the long-term, locals will continue to live in a state fueled by tourism.
“Hawaii is not and will never be your vacation ‘paradise'” article – https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2022/10/princeton-indigenous-tourists-hawaii-halt
Intro – 0:00
Part I – 1:25
“Indigenous” term and Native Hawaiian – 2:09
People Don’t Think About Hawaii Too Much – 2:40
Part II – 4:35
Hawaii and Forced Reliance on Tourism – 5:04
Part III – 6:50
Hawaii Visitor Numbers and Projections – 7:01
Sustainable Tourism – 8:19
Part IV – 9:02
Native Hawaiian Culture – 9:45
Native Hawaiians and Homeless Population – 10:34
Part V – 11:37
Not All Visitors Act the Same – 12:01
Hawaiian History and Visitors – 12:43
Part VI – 13:54
North Shore Infrastructure and Traffic – 14:27
Part VII – 15:46
The Water Situation and Tourism – 16:06
How Did People Suffer From It? – 16:59
Part VIII – 17:19
Visitors Do Tend to Do the Same Things – 17:43
Locals Have No Place to Go -19:23
Part IX – 20:00
The State of Hawaii’s Economy – 20:25
Guilt-Free in Hawaii – 21:28
Tourism Industry and Employees – 22:20
Part X – 23:25
Traveling to Hawaii and Respecting Hawaii – 23:56
Closing and Most Important Thing to Remember – 25:00
Filmed using the Canon Powershot G1X III.
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Looking forward to the comments on this video. 😁 It's a long one so grab your hurricane popcorn. The main point I'd like to emphasize is this: Despite what some may project online, not all locals would discourage people from visiting Hawaii. 🤙
Whenever I hear "non – native hawaiians" shouldn't come to Hawaii, I think of Jim Crow mentality of the 1940s and 1950s. I honestly don't know why people still think that way in 2023. Get with the times people. Also, I agree. Our state really needs to diversify our economy and create our sectors. First we need to cut and lower taxes and make it easier for local people to open up a business. Hawaii taxes are crazy. I also think we can use a good portion of the money we get from tourism to fund a create new sectors to our economy like Film/TV/Entertainment industry, Manufacturing/factory jobs and Holistic/Alternative medicine.
Finally a local that gets it. Thank you very much for sharing your perspective brah. Some locals still don't get it and are still stuck in the past (like the author). The Author sounds very entitled and is using the guilt trip and shaming to convince people not to come to Hawaii. If nobody came to Hawaii, our state would be massively screwed. Yes, I agree that we need to diversify our local economy, but the problem is the leaders and lawmakers in our state. They're the real problem to our state by overtaxing everything and making it awfully difficult for locals to live and start up a business. We can't depend on them for anything because they ain't gonna do nothing for us. We gotta facilitate change ourselves by getting more involved with our government and demand change.
I’m not a native Hawaiian, nor a local, but Hawaii was annexed and belongs to the Native Hawaiians. Whether you were born there or are a transplant you are a pilgrim, a guest to the islands. As a result of Western pressures and influences unfortunately a lot of Native Hawaiians are priced out and pushed out. It’s simple as that. I hear what you think is right, but your point of view is very Western Colonial. It’s apparent you are offended by the article because there is a lot of truth to it.
The "Hawaiian nationalists" are very few, very stupid, and very isolated from the mainstream local culture. They tend to be on every hand-out they can get while voting for blustering failures like Trump and that MMA guy who was running for office – you know the one, the guy who's been dropped on his head a lot. When not holding idiotic parades in their jacked up trucks, they're at the beach leaving tons of trash and beer bottles, or putting in time in family court for beating up their wives and kids. They are utterly irrelevant.
Locals want tourists and malahini to respect the culture here. I read an article where a local was forced to move to the mainland due to finances and when he got there he was demanding the mainlanders to educate themselves on the Hawaiian culture even though he was the one on their turf so to speak. I found that pretty telling.
This was such a well thought out and common sense discussion, from you as always …yep I have seen the bad tourist with their blind eyes and sarcasm, but also have seen that just as often in locals … Hawaii is fast becoming such an angry culture, like the mainland, too bad, and in many many cases tourism is not the cause at all, perhaps in some cases tourists are scapegoats in a sense, sometimes rightfully so, and sometimes not, not even close … even if tourists were absent, this pervading anger would still be here, growing … too bad, but again such a well thought out and common sense thoughts by you !!! btw perhaps my views may be different in way, I am on a neighbor island and wonder if neighbor island views may differ a bit from other islands … 👍🤙🙏
If you just look at the Geology and Demographics of Hawai'i, there are no natural resources such as oil, natural gas, or coal. Literally, in order to keep things running, Hawai'i needs to import oil, natural gas, and coal.
What does Hawai'i export? Nothing. There are no widgets, no products, no technology to sell to the world. The only thing Hawai'i offers is tourism, and a strategic military location.
The plight of the Native Hawaiians is absolutely real. Having said that, they're stuck with the United States of America.
As a thought experiment lets say the USA pulls out of Hawai'i, and completely leaves. What's next?
How does the Hawaiian Nation-state government handle property? What happens to all the people that currently own property in Hawai'i? Do they get to keep it? Will it be confiscated?
What currency will the new Hawaiian government use?
There would be absolutely no military to defend the new Nation of Hawai'i. What's to stop Russia from rolling right in like they did to Ukraine or Crimea? Or China would absolutely do the same.
The longer one rationally thinks about it, there is no going back.
Hawaii would literally devolve into a 3rd world country if left to their own devices without any support if the USA left.
At the end of the day, the best play in the Native Hawaiian handbook is to keep being the squeaky wheel and ever present thorn in the side of the US Government to get as much free handouts and social benefits that they can.
The Nation of Hawai'i was illegally overthrown despite having a sovereign government and constitution. Having said that, the USA is never giving it back. Might makes right. Manifest Destiny. That's the true nature of the world. If the USA didn't overthrow the Hawaiian Monarchy in 1893, then Japan, China, or some other large nation would eventually have done the same.
Why? It all goes back to the fact that Hawaii has no natural resources and would be completely dependent upon imports for modernization with only tourism to offer in return. There is no way for a nation state of Hawai'i to defend its own borders militarily. It would be so easy for any 1st world nation to sail in with a small fleet of ships and take claim of Hawai'i for themselves.
Unfortunately, the plight of Hawaiians is a common story of indigenous peoples all over the world. There were aboriginal indigenous Polynesians in Taiwan. It was called Formosa before it was called Taiwan. Do we hear anything or any stories about them? nope. There were indigenous peoples in Puerto Rico before the Spanish came. There were Aztecs in Mexico before the Spanish came. This is the common story of all conquered societies that were taken over by a greater power with more technology and military might.
At the end of the day, at least Hawaii is now a part of a country that allows freedom of speech, and native indigenous peoples can write such scathing articles in newspapers and the internet without fear of repercussion nor retribution.
Russia or China could have overthrown Hawai'i instead, and given their modern day Covid practices on their own populations, it's clear the Hawaiians enjoy many more freedoms as aggrieved American citizens than they would as aggrieved Russian or Chinese citizens.
Heck, modern day China is committing genocide with their Uyghur Muslim populations. Locals in Hawaii speak Pidgeon-English. I wonder what Pidgeon-Chinese would sound like?
So any rational person who understands world history just has to take all this in stride. Any non-Hawaiian born and raised in Hawai'i just knows and accepts that there will always be the angry ever present Hawaiian sovereigntists shaking their fists in the air. It is their right to be aggrieved and to complain. And it is our right to take them with a grain of salt, shake our heads, sigh, and move on with our lives.
Pau already. You lost. Just get as much free money as you can. That's how America works.
22:28 you know why you see so many Filipinos working in the tourism industry as maids and room cleaners?
The US dollar to Philipine Peso conversion is currently trading 1 USD to 54 Philippine Pesos!!!!
Basically, 1 US dollar is equal to 54 Philippine dollars!
Think about the plight of Hawaii born locals having to struggle and move away.
Now, think about how much worse it is for Filipinos born in the Philippines.
Despite Filipinos being highly educated, most have college degrees, and consider the fact that most Filipinos speak English very well, no matter what they do, they cannot compete with people from other countries because their money is so weak.
No amount of hard work can make up for a 1 to 54 currency conversion! It would be like trying to swim up a waterfall.
This is exactly why Filipinos are all over the world, working menial jobs, working in call centers.
I had to leave Hawai'i because it just became too hard, but at least I could stay within my own country.
Filipinos have to leave their country to go work in other countries with stronger currencies so that they can send money home!
Man, everybody is hurting and struggling. But you know what? You see Filipinos are some of the nicest and hardest working people you will ever meet.
More people the world over, and especially in America, need to practice gratitude. Americans are not grateful because they have no perspective and don't realize how good they have it.
Once you have a greater world perspective, you start to appreciate what little you thought you had because you realize how much more you have than others, and that spurs gratitude.
I am a soon to be visitor to your islands. Watching your videos has helped me think about how truly unique Hawaii is. It is a year-round tourist destination. There is no waiting for that specific day when tourist season ends, so only locals and natives have their home to themselves. Mahalo
I enjoyed this video and appreciated you content and opinions. I lived as a child in Hawaii, and when I left Hawaii, Hawaii always remained in my heart. I can understand how many may feel a type of intrusion to their environments. Here in Cali where I live, a lot of Bay Area folks have been priced out of the homes and neighborhoods and have moved into little towns and have priced out the locals in even my area. Homes are extremely expensive now! But if one were even to suppose that what was shared was just a Hawaii thing, imagine even some of the big attractions like Disneyland in Southern California where the common folk live and see the overuse of their environments to meet the needs and demands of the population that visit. Do they say don't come here? No, California depends on this revenue.And further some people like you and me understand no matter where we go in the world, we should display common decency. Anytime tourism is used, however, there will be pros and cons. I certainly agree, as you've emphasized, respect for someone's home must be a priority. There will always be those who feel "entitled" because they have the funds. Yet, on the flipside, there are many who appreciate the Hawaiian culture and want to respect it. Those ones may be another segue to getting the "voices" heard. ** On the side note, the green screen thing is real! When I miss Hawaii, I just watch a video like yours and PhotoLuke and I am good until I can get back to my other "home". Mahalo!
I really appreciate this video by you, imho, it is one of your most important. In 2000 My dad and I moved from Dallas, TX to Molokai'i stayed there for 1 year, then moved to Lower Waiehu, Maui for 5 years and Oahu ever since. Know how many people told me to my face to go back to where I came from? Zero. Locals just judge me on the respect I have for this place and the people. That's all. But… enter social media, it adds in a layer of abstraction and we get content like what you just read.
I remember after September 11th, 2001 the planes were arriving half full, Front St was a ghost town and the negative economic fallout hurt a lot of people. Same thing during the financial crisis of 2008-2009, people with bachelor's degrees couldn't get a job at Starbucks, the population collectively held it's breath until tourism recovered and the associated jobs returned. So we've seen what it's like without tourism and it's miserable if you need an income to survive. The 2020 pandemic was a little different. Most people got paid to stay home, and in many cases got paid more than their normal wage to do so. So there was very little tourism but the average person didn't feel it very much economically because of governmental financial assistance and that's what I think added a lot of fuel to this anti-tourism sentiment. You could also argue that Honolulu County has made an effective attempt to throttle down tourism by disallowing 90% of the AirBnB listings leaving hotels as the only lodging for vacationers.
You made a great, intuitive counter point to the article when the author claimed most tourists were ignorant of Native Hawaiian culture. You essentially said exposure cures ignorance, which is 100% true. Shut people out and they'll never know any better.
My basic philosophy is the same as most people's. Anyone should be able to visit a place as long as they're respectful of it. Great video, the demography and history of Hawaii make this a very complex topic and I am happy to see a YT content creator speak about it in a nuanced way.
Here's something for Hawaiians to think about. Most white folks on the mainland like myself don't give a damn about our ancestry. I don't care about the Italians or Germans that my grandparents left behind in Europe. We are interested in the day in front of us and how to make it better for ourselves.. on the same token we don't give a hoot about Hawaiian ancestry and traditions. I don't mean to sound disrespectful that's just how it is.
I got a lot to say about this. I find those individuals to be very prejudiced, they're filled with a lot of hate and are spreading it to youth. People in the U.S. have worked really hard to end race based governance and now just about any U.S. citizen of any race and ethnic background can run for any office and have a go at implementing the policies they want.
People just want live peacefully and have a job to provide for their families but these individuals only care about race. What policies are they putting forward to improve Hawaii's economic condition and address other issues?
I don't refer to these individuals as indigenous people rather first inhabitants since they also migrated to the islands from somewhere else.
I've noticed in Pacific Polynesian and Melanesian countries that the first inhabitants don't put policies in place that improves their economies and their infrastructure and so their countries lag behind in development. Their leaders only care about race and culture and not much on job creation, medicine and infrastructure. They have these asinine land rules where local own the land collectively which prevents land from being sold and used for development of infrastructure, jobs and housing. Banks won't give loans because there's no ownership of land as collateral. So these countries remain under developed. This is the result of indigenous governance, they're stuck in their old ways with no vision for the future.
I'm from Fiji but I'm ethnically half Tamil and have Kannada. My great great grand parents were brought to Fiji by the English a long time ago as indentured servants. The English promised to take Indian people back to India after their contracts were over but when the contracts did end they said you had to pay your way back. How were they going to do that? They were never paid a wage, they were indentured servants and there were limited jobs on the Fiji Islands to earn a living. So we were stuck in Fiji.
Our land ownership rights were severely limited as the majority was owned by the iTaukei the first inhabitants of Fiji. They are Melanesian people, they lived off of the land and didn't need to work for a living. So we turned to Capitalism and advanced Fiji after the English left. Today the majority of businesses in Fiji are owned by Indian people mostly Gujrati Indians. It's hard to build new roads and railroads because the iTaukei won't sell land for those purposes. They'll only lease it which has a whole lot of issues that comes along with that. Their Chiefs don't do a damn thing to economically benefit Fiji they just line their own pockets leaving crumbs for their villages.
Every time an Indian Prime Minister was elected there were coup de'tats to prevent it from happening. First one happened in 1987 the year I was born in Suva, Fiji. Indian people use to make up half of Fiji's population but due to discrimination from prejudiced iTaukei that number significantly declined because we migrated out of Fiji to Australia, New Zealand, Canada, U.S. and U.K.
Rotuma a Polynesian people who are apart of the Fijian Republic decided not to open their island to tourism. Today 3,000 Rotumans live on Rotuma while 9,000 live off the island either in Fiji or another country why? They went looking for jobs because there was hardly any on Rotuma. In an effort to preserve their island they killed jobs in the process. Jobs could have been created while still preserving the island but nope.
So you can imagine I'm not in favor of race based indigenous governance, I only favor free market economic policies that benefit the population as a whole doesn't matter the race of the person who implements these policies.
Also these people from what I understand want independence from the U.S. which doesn't make sense because you still then have to contend with world Super powers such as China. Hawaii is a strategic location for the U.S. so you can count on the Chinese Communist Party of China coming to knock on Hawaii's door. Hawaii is going to have to make a deal with either America or somebody else for military protection since the Island's tiny population isn't going to be enough to fend of the likes of China or Russia. The U.S. would never allow Hawaii to make deals with China since Hawaii is so close to the mainland. So does Hawaii's Independence really make sense from a geopolitical point of view? Not really. Might as well enjoy U.S. protection and the U.S. Constitution.
I choose the U.S. over these individuals who don't want tourism in Hawaii and want Hawaii's Independence because the U.S. is lot more welcoming of people from different ethnic backgrounds and some states have far better economic policies. I look at what America is today not what it used to be in years past.
I agree with most of what you said, but I understand where the author of the article was coming from. He/she wants a concerted effort to address the Native Hawaiian struggles (more Native Hawaiians living outside the state than inside. Isn’t that like the Palestinian people’s struggle?!), before piling on things that only exacerbate those struggles, such as their homelessness! I went to grad school at UH over 30 years ago, and fell in love with Hawaii and its culture, but I am deeply conflicted about moving there in my upcoming retirement!
Welfare island without tourist
Ho babes. You are an amazing person. I love that you speak of this. I am so proud of you to share about this. We have SO much aloha for you and your ohana.
I have been surprised at all the negativity coming for the Hawaiian tourism industry recently. You can barely see anything positive about us online anymore, which is truly a shame. As someone who works in the tourism industry, the vast majority of people I see visiting often come to learn about the culture, spend money, and simply gain a different perspective. One of the most important aspects of hawai’i has always been the ability to welcome different cultures from around the world. The diversity of this island is one of its major strengths. Of course there are some bad tourists, but I believe we should judge them on an individual basis. Just as all people of Hawai’i shouldn’t be judged by one opinion, or viewpoint. Really appreciate your show, & thank you for your positivity.
As an indeginous of the Americas Navajo (100%). I've met so many indeginous Hawaiians. This is not it, the reciprocaties of how true Hawaiians are. It's understandable that Hawaii is so mixed. The point you should make, is Hawai'i mixed and Hawaiian is 2 different forms of thought.
Well said.
Only issue I have being kanaka is the people moving from the mainland and pricing locals off the island. That’s not right by any means! I can trace my ancestors back 300 plus years. So it’s hard to watch locals and natives being pushed off the island!
Moving to Oahu in July as a mainlander and this gives really good perspective of what to expect and how I want to act as an “outsider”.
What state should charge a tourist fee. The funds collected can go to affordable housing on others thing needed in Hawaii
Well said. Thank you for your thoughtful video. I wonder how much affect it will have on those who, like myself, consider/considered retiring to Hawaii. Sadly, I can no longer imagine relocating to a place that has become so overtly hostile to new residents. Hawaii won't be benefitting from my dollars, I'm afraid.
I hope the native Hawaiian people who feel so frustrated by what they see happening in their state will consider that First Nation and other indigenous cultures around the world are routinely oppressed and made invisible by governments–and even their local neighbors. I live in Minnesota and First Nation history here is so deeply buried under western expansion bull** that it boggles the mind. However, more than ever before, there are many more individuals who are eager to learn about indigenous cultures and to support them in meaningful and healthy ways. Please don't discourage these people and hate on them because they were born in Delaware (or Minnesota) or anywhere else outside of Hawaii from ancestors who are different from your own.
And, BTW, badly behaved tourists are everywhere–they are at Disneyland in California, on the streets of NYC, and Paris, and Seoul. That is a dumb human issue, not a tourism issue.
We definitely should stop spending government funds and giving benefits to people bringing tourism here. If the guys want to get rich off of tourism, make em pay. We have roads and houses and government sht that needs to be paid for. We can't even feed ourselves. We used to be able to support everybody (over a million and a half) with no shipping, now we can't support anyone on our own. But you know who does think about us? The people sending there homeless over here to "paradise". Also one thing I don't agree with is that "tourism isn't bad" stance. Whenever there are 2 cultures and one is a tourist spot to the other, the tourists spots culture is always fckd. Always. Tourism is kind of a colonizer/western mentality thing. People used to just be cool where they were. We just gotta work on sustainability and we could say fck tourism.
The backdrops in your videos are very beautiful! Could you mention at the beginning or the at the end of the video on where you shot it? Thanks.
Indigenous Hawaiians pertains to ppl. whose ancestors inhabited the Hawaiian Islands before colonization by whites/europeans.
Hawaii being an isolated place on top of the poor education there is a big factor in why hawaii locals tend to think Hawaii is the center of the universe. They forget there's an entire other world outside of the islands. I've met quite a few people from Hawaii that moved to the mainland and they all have trouble adjusting to any culture or lifestyle that isn't their own. They have a very narrow minded view of the world.
Ultimately they don’t have to like people visiting, but it’s not within their control😂. You don’t actually get to tell people they can’t go just because you don’t like some of the tourists, you can’t tell them they can’t move there either. That’s life, you don’t own Hawaii. Those posts make me laugh though, as I continue to have family vacations where ever we please.
Growing up in the northeast of the United States we have everything we need right here and we don't "need" to travel outside of our very large metro areas.
That being said… I've traveled all over the continental United State all my life for business and for pleasure. I think it's good for people to travel around the country to understand that we are all different and we are all the same. The beauty is experiencing somewhere outside of where you were born and grew up.
This means native Hawaiians need to get off their islands and travel to the other 49 states whenever possible so they also can see and experience outside of where they grew up.
Personally I've never traveled all the way to Hawaii because I always got everything I needed in Southern California and figured why bother.
And now that I've seen this video I'm less likely "to bother" coming to Hawaii in the future.
Of course this is just my opinion. I know the west coast loves me spending my money there.
Aloha
It's 2023. Pure, non mixed race, Native Hawaiians no longer exist. This was by choice. Too late to pull up that drawbridge! LoL
Here's a thought. The person who wrote the piece is the same kind of person who turned SF into a toilet of criminals and drug addicts. Ask yourself, would you vacation in SF when the locals in the area don't even want to go there? Be careful, people like that who wrote the article are those who created SF, LA, Pliladelphia, Chicago, Oakland, Detroit where the daily news is limited to the number of shooting the night before. Don't let Hawaii become just another liberal created hellhole.
The whole point of the opinion was to create the so-called "native Hawaiian" VICTIM, and nothing more.
We just got back from Kona last Friday. We love Hawaii, and we don't do the tourist stuff. We hang out instead of the beach that is not crowded. Love your video.
Everyone is a tourist somewhere
Braddah! If you wuz born here in Hawaii den you da kine NATIVE HAWAIIAN! no mattahz what brand you iz cuz! BIG ALOHA to from bruddah Flash – Kahaluu
As a native Hawaiian who was priced out and moved out I think it is counter intuitive to talk about this without a federal government solution. We have never gotten anything close to what native Americans have and we probably never will. Also with no dedicated land there is no possible way to build a fund without government assistance like an Indian casino or economic zone for native Hawaiians.
Working and mid class people are being priced out virtually everywhere. Money is buying up "land and places" and "land and places" are critical to maintain culture, so it is eroding local cultures, especially in cultures where land is deeply intertwined with culture.
The problem with Hawaii is that although much of Hawaii's culture has been "Americanized" it simply doesn't fit in with the rest of the 49 states. One could argue Hawaii's closest counterpart Alaska is the most "American" state in terms of cultural ideals and themes. Many of the problems we see today in Hawaii are enabled by Hawaii's culture, and some are enabled by it being a state. Much of Hawaii's issues regarding housing prices are simply because Hawaii adopted the mainland's approach to zoning regulations and property taxation which incentivizes building low density housing which is a horrendous idea when you live on an island with limited land to develop. The other part of this issue is that Hawaii seriously lacks entrepreneurial spirit, this is where Hawaii's culture hinders it. Hawaii culturally is still a plantation state and although people aren't as impoverished as the days of the plantations they still have the same mindset. The hotels effectively replaced the plantations and this is also reflected by many council members being previous hotel managers, similar to the plantation days where many mayors and elected officials were union officials or plantation managers. I believe without a doubt that Hawaii would be way worse off if it was its own nation, and the only thing that stops it becoming that is the federal government. If Hawaii stops being a state it'll lose federal funding that keeps it afloat, but if it stays and keeps trying to copy other states it'll lose its mana and spirit by being overcome with globalization and cookie cutter homes (like it is right now). If Hawaii wants to truly change it'll need to find its own way to use its unique culture and land to maximize ingenuity, preserve its true culture, and work with the American system to flourish and not blame it for its shortcomings. When I was in highschool I started a nonprofit on Maui with the best friend to address many of the issues our local youth face. I know this issue deeply and it saddened me being met with limiting beliefs by local families who held their children back. Many of the youth we worked with and myself left Hawaii because it wasn't economically feasible to live there. If Hawaii wants real change they need to abandon the plantation culture and not adopt the American culture, but go back to its roots and make its own society, but using the American system and tax structure to allow that growth to happen. Taxing the hell out of people won't allow this to happen.
Unfortunately, you've failed to explain the context behind "Don't come to Hawaii." It's based upon Native Hawaiians and Asian Settler Colonialism. Though you might be local, it doesn't mean you should have an opinion on lands stolen from Hawaiians. I think you might want to rethink what "allyship" looks like in the context of where you live.
Imagine if tourists stopped coming to Hawaii…there is nothing special about the people on those islands that would sustain their comfortable way of living.
The infrastructure, the nice amenities, the conveniences and resources brought to the islands from commerce, etc. would all go away and people would become miserable as in most other island populations on Earth.
In Tahiti, the native population is grateful for every tourist that comes to their islands with cash in hand…in Hawaii, the native population is spoiled by good fortune and is simply trying to bite the hands that feed them…
There is a way to change the dependency on tourism the Hawaii government can change it for me I don’t agree with the Hawaii tourism authority they are the ones who really control the flow of tourism they need to change it so all Hawaiian people who are hurt bye tourism can heal do it so tourists no how to respect Hawaii in general all Hawaiian islands are different so they would have to learn this Mabe a video on the different aspects of the Hawaiian islands and native Hawaiians and make it informative the Hawaii tourism authority can do that hopefully they do for everyone sake👍🏾
I enjoyed the PCC
It was done tastefully, and the show was worth the money.
Respect is the key for all travels, being a visitor,or tourist doesn't mean you don't care about the culture, place you're visiting.
I enjoyed my trip to O ahu , and will visit again, bringing my reusable bags and empty water bottle, and spending lots of money at ABC …Mahalo for all your videos
Compare with other tropical island countries. They have restrictions on how long you can stay and buy land.
Nicely done presentation. I am not native but live here now and am proud to live here. I remember for instance the day I got my HI driver's license, I felt proud and understood that I am responsible for being a good citizen in this place, just as I was on the mainland. I don't pretend to be local, I don't feel guilty or bad about living here either. My wife and I do good and work hard wherever we live, its who we are. The good thing about Hawaii is that poor behaving tourists return to their home (thank God!) because they don't fit in here. Hawaii is unique and Aloha is what makes this where everyone is welcome and for the most part the good ones stay. Mahalo for this video, I have learned quite a bit about the local culture from your channel!
make microchips, Taiwan is a island, als manufacture anything fo DOD Hawaii is the only state that does not produce anything a DOD contract nephew I am hail Mckinley Hail 1980. live in Lancaster Cali.
Why am I not "Native Hawaiian" if I was born there? The Asians been in Hawaii coming up on 200 years, why are they not considered the new Natives.
That is why I live in Hilo. No tourists come here lol