To begin with, there is not a unified "Asian" culture; people from Japan, China, and South Korea are as different from each other as they are from other "Asian" cultures, including from other countries – in Asia – such as India, Russia, Afghanistan, Singapore, Syria, Taiwan, Cyprus, North Korea, Indonesia, Iraq, Iran, etc. ... To lump all of the people from the largest continent on the planet (and the most-populated, with more than half of the world's humans) into one easily defined group that values "nonconfrontation" and conformity does, I think, a disservice to the complexity of the issues here. It also masks the real problems in Hawaii with a stereotype. Again, what I think the primary problems are here are a general lack of oversight, transparency, and accountability. Who really holds offenders of ethics and laws accountable for their actions? And are those people doing their jobs, fighting corruption? That's what I hope to pursue more in 2017. ...