......It's the same pidgin English that was then driven out of local schools via corporal punishment in order to make way for an all-pervading "standardized" plantation-owner-approved English. In Hawaii, for more than 100 years haoles have put a stranglehold on everything that wasn't haole. The native Hawaiian language was outlawed until the 1970s. The Native Hawaiian Language.  Outlawed, yes, outlawed. Until the 1970s. The 1970s.

In recent years maybe that stranglehold has, at least legally, lossened up, but over the generations, in order to survive living in the haolesphere, everyone here has had to, to some extent, become haole. The survival-instinct-dervived mindset that everything that isn't haole is inferior is part of everyone's subconscious. For people who aren't or aren't entirely haole self-affirmation can be an everyday battle. Many Haole people don't realize the haole culture and haole assumptions they carry with them everywhere they go......