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2026-08-07 07:49 UTC
This sometimes comes up, but I am from Hawai'i in the sense that I was born and raised there, but not Hawaiian (aka Kānaka Maoli). I am a fourth-gen Japanese-American (aka Nikkei-American) which means my great-grandparents* immigrated to Hawai'i** and that's my heritage. I know some Hawaiian words and customs from growing up there, but it is not /my/ culture. Out of respect to Kānaka Maoli, please don't refer to all people from Hawai'i as Hawaiians or assume they are experts on Hawaiian culture
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@renkotsuban@maestoso.org 2026-08-07 07:54
*My great-grandparents on my father's side, as well as my mother's father's side, immigrated from Japan, while my mother's mother was born and raised in Hiroshima and left after the war... but it's easier to call myself 4世 than explain all that lol