Hawaiian Pidgin

One traditional proverb that captures the Hawaiian religious perspective towards the environment is, “He aliʻi ka ʻaina, he kaua ke kanaka.” The phrase literally translates as, the land is a chief, and the people are its servants,” which defines the relationship that Native Hawaiians have with their ecological environment. Prior to western contact, native Hawaiians structured their society around the ideology that the land they inhabited was their superior and that it was their responsibility to…

Once I started reading the first paragraph of the article written by Peter Cervelli “The Threat of Silent Earthquakes” it immediately drew me in. I was fascinated and alarmed by what I had just read. The fact that an earthquake with a 5.7 magnitude hit near a volcano where people visit every day and went unnoticed just blew me away (Cervelli). It is a blessing that the earthquake didn’t cause any devastation that day, but why did it not and if it had then how can we prepare for such a natural…

‘creole’ and ‘pidgin’ languages and what the public has generally understood by the two languages. Creolist do not agree with the precise definition of the two terms, nor do they specify that how many languages have been considered under the two categories. It is a language that represents speech-forms that do not have any native speakers and is generally used by the people, as a form of communication, who do not share a common language. The stage of development and worldlinessof any pidgin…

Red-headed hawaiian and the main character is Rudy Puana and this book is about him having red hair but a full blooded hawaiian it also talks about how Rudy grew up as a kid,teen,and young adult and how he goes through rough times as an adult but then later pursue into a being a doctor and meeting his wife Lynn. I argued that Rudy does come face to face with cultural differences throughout the novel. These cultural differences challenge Rudy’s sense of identity…

To be honest, I just learned a little bit Hawaiian history in a history class, so it is kind of a difficult topic for me to discuss about. However, I think there are both advantages and disadvantages of the westernization in Hawaii.I think the huge damage that Westernization left to Hawaii is the loss of their traditional culture. When Westerns came to Hawaii, they eventually brought disease that the Native Hawaiians had never had. Further, when sugar plantation started, people from different…

beaches, volcanoes and such, I am sure most mainlanders have no idea what pidgin is. Just as Black English is used primarily by those in the Black communities, Pidgin is a language most of the people that live in Hawai’i use to communicate with another. We can go from typing and speaking in professional manner, to all of sudden speaking pidgin to our close friends and family. You could say Pidgin is a way of life. The way Pidgin came about was during the Sugar Plantation era when people from all…

Hawaii is a home to many cultural groups from around the world: Filipino, Asian, Hawaiian, and Caucasian. However, there is a negative stigma around white people. When white missionaries first arrived in Hawaii, they tried to replace the cultures already developed within Hawaii with their own. As I was growing up, many local people still saw caucasians as people who wanted to change their culture. As a light skinned girl with blue eyes and blonde hair, I experienced this stigma first hand.…

Growing up in a Hawaiian/white family I have always been surrounded by both cultures; from experiencing what it means to be a local in Hawaii, to experiencing a Haole (or white) culture. I have seen it all in regards to how each culture is different, along with how each culture reacts to one another; however, there is one issue, that when observing both sides of these cultural backgrounds, we see repeated over and over again between the two-that issue is racism. “Prejudice and discrimination…

This quarter I chose to read “The red-headed hawaiian”, by Rudy Puana, M.D., and Chris Mckinney, published may 1, 2014. This book is about a young man named Rudolph Puana, who is known as Rudy. Rudy lives in Kahalu’u, Oahu with his three sisters and mom and dad. Rudy’s dad is hawaiian and his mom is caucasian, Rudy is somehow white with red hair. So this makes him stand out in his small town of locals. Rudy's dad is a typical big hawaiian, pidgin speaking man, who “runs the place”. However…

The movie, Go for Broke, centers around the Japanese American men who served in the 442nd regimental combat unit during World War II. Though unjustly imprisoned in internment camps, these men proved their loyalty to America and bravely fought against the Italian, German, and Japanese enemies, to become the most decorated unit in United States history. Released in 1951, six years after the end of the war, this movie aimed to change the prejudices against Japanese Americans in the United States.…