Culture of Hawaii

history and experiences of Hawaiians because Hawaii is largely portrayed to be a tropical paradise in popular media, and such view is further perpetrated through tourism. In particular, paradise is often associated with peace and harmony, and any instance of conflict tears apart that depiction. On a personal level, I also view Hawaii to be a tropical paradise, where people often go on vacation and have fun with family and friends. In addition, I associate Hawaii with tropical music, spam…

2016 Summer Commemorative Shirt helps you remember the great parts of Hawaiian statehood. After all, Hawaii is more than just islands. The Reyn Spooner 2016 Summer Commemorative Shirt What better way to celebrate the great state that is Hawaii than with a shirt depicting those things that set it apart as a state. Granted, there isn 't room enough on one shirt to put everything that makes Hawaii such a tropical wonderland, however, the many elements of Hawaiian statehood are clearly…

(632 Words) The Waikiki Natatorium War Memorial is located in Honolulu, Hawaii and was opened on August 24, 1927. The Memorial was the original design of Lewis Hobart. The Waikiki Natatorium War Memorial serves as an artistic response to war because it was built to honor the 10,000 Hawaii soldiers and the 101 of those 10,000 who died serving in World War I. The Natatorium serves to remind the Hawaiian residents…

Because Hawaii is known to be a beautiful island, the people are generally going to be represented as beautiful. In the film, Full Metal Jacket, the Vietnamese people are depicted very differently. Since the film takes place in Vietnam (which does not hold the same image as Hawaii to Westerners) the people are not represented as beautiful, but rather the women are completely fetishized. Lutz and…

When most people think of Hawaii, people think of paradise. Coconuts, sunshine, no worries, bruddah, right? Well, yes, this is true, but there's much more to the 808 than that. Most tourists are only there for Waikiki or North Shore or even the shopping on Kalakaua Avenue that easily rivals (and can even best) Sunset Boulevard, Rodeo Drive or even Fifth Avenue; and while walking out of the Macy’s and looking street sign reading “Kalakaua” or “Nohonani”, it is guaranteed that they do not stop…

infrastructures. Hundreds were left stranded, cut off by lava flows with no power, working water and electricity. Para 1 Hawaii is an island located in the Pacific Ocean. It is part of the USA so it is recognized as the 50th state admitted to the union on August 20th, 1959. The state of Hawaii consists of eight main islands: Niihau, Kauai, Oahu, Maui, Molokai, Lanai and Kahoolawe. Hawaii is a very popular holiday…

When the Hawaii sugar industry obtained Korean workers into the American labor market, it only concerned about how these cheap labor forces from Korea effectively maximized its profits, but it ignored that some of these people were suffered from health problems in both physical and psychological aspects after they migrated from Korea to Hawaii. In order to seek solace and comfort, most bachelors started to gamble and visit prostitute houses. This massively distracted them from working in the…

immigrants they became targets of racial slurs and stereotypes. This is ironic because the United States is supposed to be a melting pot of different races, cultures, and languages. Everyone’s families had to have immigrated to the United States from various other countries around the world. There is no surprise that when the Japanese immigrated to Hawaii, and then to the United States in the latter part of the nineteenth century, they became the newest target of prejudice. The Japanese…

Japanese Culture Lives in Hawaiian Business The Japanese archipelago sits to the east of the Eurasian mainland. The land area is about 378,000km², making it the sixtieth largest country in the world by land mass. It is about one twenty-fifth the size of the U.S. Japan also has extraordinary business sense based on their customs which gathers the interest of other countries. With the progress of globalization, Japanese people and Japanese concepts spread across national borders and are a huge…

Local Hawaiian island people always have some type of problem yet mostly in Hawaii one of the main problems is beach pollution. Hawaii is always known for their beaches, beautiful, relaxing and a place to get away. Today Hawaii's beaches are starting to get really polluted with trash, plastic, cigarette butts, beer bottles, and all other types of trash. In Hawaii the beaches are really important because not only does it affect the natives, beach pollution affects the hawaiian ocean life as well.…