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In The Name Of Hawaiians: Native Identities and Cultural Politics

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I find it very funny that America points to Hawaii as a successful international community of peace. There must be some kind of blatent disregard to this kind of literature. I have become very weary of Hawaiian nativist books. Typically, if you read one you have read them all. They read something like this: We were treated unfair two hundred years ago, we want our land back, ect... I offer a problem I face with this issue. If someone that looked Hawaiian, spoke Hawaiian, claimed to be Hawaiian, knew Hawaiian history, was born in Hawaii, died in Hawaii, and loved Hawaii turned out to have zero % Hawaiian blood...are they not Hawaiian? The Hawaiian issue will just get more complicated as time goes on, especially if people keep rehashing the negative. Negativity breeds Negativity breeds negativity. How do you form a country with a native population that can claim as many nationalities as there are nations? This book offers no real new insights, just follows the same blueprints as any other Hawaiian nativist book.