• TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today
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            9 days ago

            It’s complicated… Hawaiian pidgin developed in the late 1800s from multi ethnic plantations. It’s a blended version of English with Hawaiian, Portuguese, Japanese, Cantonese, and Filipino languages. It’s not really distinct to a single ethnicity on the islands, it’s spoken by around half of the population of Hawaii. So it’s more of a distinction that you are a local rather than being a native Hawaiian.

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          9 days ago

          Sounds like he was speaking Pidgin. I’m guessing you know this, but for the others: Haole are people not from the island, but doesn’t always apply to tourists from what I have read.

          Hawaiian identity is somewhat complicated.

      • khannie@lemmy.world
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        9 days ago

        I used to fight Thai. He looks trained to me. Solid block of the chair which was telegraphed to fuck and he wasn’t bothered by, then the cross to knock him out.