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The wind blew the flag into the picture just as I was taking it . Moral of the story: you won’t experience the same moment twice 💯🤙💭 #luckywelivehi #nofilter #kukiaimauna (at Wahiawa, Hawaii) https://www.instagram.com/p/B1GDDU1B2uzkxMORPQnxQU3jmt560PL3TFRbWg0/?igshid=1oke2e9u8gvus
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Yt people stay on their bs..Boycott this colonizer y’all!!
@ my fellow Chicagoans
The level of antics
https://www.instagram.com/p/BhLtpvMHTR0/
Meanwhile, in Hawaii
It’s nice to see volcanoes making a come back, they’ve been an underrated threat for a long time now
Kelston Boys’ High School perform a massive haka in honour of the new Maori carving on campus
I live for this
This is the first recording of a Haka I’ve seen that manages to capture even a fraction of the true energy of it. And it’s because there’s so many of them that those boys would have been shaking the ground.
Seeing these boys in their modern uniforms and jackets and backpacks that say NIKE, participating in this ancient ritual, really just drives home what people mean when they say “I am not a costume.” The clothes here are not important. The energy and participation are important.
Christchurch man Peter Retimanu was called the n-word this morning by a tradesman.
A New Zealand man says he’s “deeply disappointed” rather than angry after a tradesman called him a n***** and made gorilla noises at him.
Peter Retimanu, 53, is a New Zealand-born Samoan who lives in Shirley in Christchurch.
This morning he got in an argument with a tradesman who had been painting the neighbour’s house, because a worker had parked too close to their driveway.
Retimanu says he asked for the car to be moved to give a clear line of sight for traffic, but they refused. Then, he said, “things got heated” and the painter called him the n-word.
“I felt, not so much anger, but a deep disappointment. I couldn’t believe it - I said, ‘You called me a what?’,” Retimanu said.
“I think because you don’t hear that word spoken at all, you go into shock. To compound it, he started making primate, gorilla noises. This was real redneck stuff.
“I thought, of all the coloured people he could have said that to he was very fortunate it was me. I’m pretty sure if he was in Manukau he wouldn’t be able to walk by the time he got out of there.”
Despite his rage, he walked away. He didn’t get the man’s name, or his company, although he later had a “terse” conversation with his neighbour.
“I knew if a fight had ensued I would be the one taken away.” Instead he sat down and wrote a letter to the editor to vent.
“I weighed up all the possible responses but the main response - that took every ounce of restraint I could summon - was mainly of wanting to do violence to this person,” Retimanu wrote.
“Thankfully, though, I weighed up in my mind the consequences and that it would be me that would be taken into custody, charged and invariably incarcerated. You’re only given a split second to go through that process. Was it worth it? No, of course, but what price turning the other cheek?”
“It was like, okay, in a white person’s world this is the best thing to do. Write a letter to the editor,” he told the Herald. “I should go out and take a baseball bat and smash his car in but who’s gonna come off second best?”
While Retimanu was stunned by hearing the n-word, he experiences less overt racism “almost daily”, from being treated with suspicion in shops to bank tellers becoming “adversarial” when he asks questions.
He tries to dress and speak as well as possible to negate stereotypes from the outset.
“The way I look intimidates the other person. So I try to be as gentle as possible to defuse the situation.”
Retimanu was born and raised in Invercargill, along with siblings including Newstalk ZB newsreader Niva Retimanu.
He said Invercargill felt far more liberal than Christchurch and he had rarely felt disrespected there, and locals are rightly proud of his high-profile sister.
Retimanu said he’s also treated with more tolerance in Auckland, which is more ethnically diverse. He works for Mobil Oil and is usually staying at 5-star hotels or using rental cars when he visits the city.
But when he attempts to get valet parking, “more often than not the attendants think I’m a taxi driver” - as do those at the hotel check-in counter.
Retimanu said non-white people have to exercise a high level of tolerance to deal with everyday racism, which is “draining”.
“Not one brown person will be surprised” by him being called the n-word, Retimanu said.
“But ask any white person, they’ll say that’s shocking.”
Human Rights Commissioner Dame Susan Devoy said when the commission launched its anti-racism campaign last year “many Kiwis didn’t believe racism really happened here, often because they hadn’t heard it from the point of view of everyday Kiwis, people like Peter”.
“Born and brought up in New Zealand and yet he’s faced racism – not just in his past, but just today out front of his own house from a complete stranger.”
“He tries to dress and speak as well as possible to negate stereotypes from the outset.
“The way I look intimidates the other person. So I try to be as gentle as possible to defuse the situation.””
This is sad 😔
Ki'i ta'e tea. Taa'i ke pingikii
“Not one brown person will be surprised” by him being called the n-word, Retimanu said.
“But ask any white person, they’ll say that’s shocking.”
CHCH is like. The whitest major city in NZ, and by default the most racist.
It’s not just Christchurch though. we have this thing of laughing at Christchurch for being racist and being smug about hows its them and not us. It’s all cities. the same stuff happens in dunedin and auckland too, everywhere in NZ. Christchurch having a reputation for being racist doesn’t absolve every other city of it. It’s the same thing NZ does about australia and america, point and say look, they’re the racists not us, then go back to being racist.
Everything is gonna be ok… seriously, one of the scariest 30 minutes of many of our lives. Where do we go? There are no real shelters that I know of, and if we only have 15 minutes, does it matter? We really need to get our sh!$! together and properly prepare for disasters. We have the same shortcomings when it comes to protection from real hurricanes. #maui #hawaii #missle #emergencyalert #civildefense #falsealarm
At that point the entire system of Bannon’s values vanishes because it wasn’t real.
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“Chief Kap Te’o-Tafiti of our Samoan Village shows how to husk a coconut… with his teeth“
Watching this video stripped me of at least 14% of my manhood because I know I could never do that in a million years.
Every now and then I’m eating doritos and one stabs me in the gums and I contemplate going to the hospital for a few minutes.
I wonder what kind of day to day lifestyle that old dude has. He’s clearly in shape but I can’t picture him in a gym or weighing out protein and shit.
He ain’t been in a gym in his life. This nigga been ripping trees up by the root since he was 7
Lin-Manuel Miranda & Auli'i Cravalho perform ‘How Far I’ll Go’ at the 2017 Academy Awards
IDGAF HAWAI'I BELONGS TO HAWAIIANS PERIOD
The homophobia that is prevalent in many countries often stems from Christian missionaries who spew anti-queer rhetoric as a part of spreading the message of Christianity. Queerness, third genders, and other complex, non-binary identities have existed for centuries. For example, in Tonga, where my birth father is from, they have a naturally existing community that plays a large role in their traditional society called “fakaleiti” which means “like a lady”. If a family has no daughters, the youngest son is often raised in the role of traditional femeninity, and respect and spiritual honor is shown to these individuals. This is similar to Mahu in Hawaii, fa'afafine in Samoa, and femminielli in Polynesian cultures. When Europeans and Americans colonized many of these countries, they brought with them anti queer ideologies that were then forced upon the people in an effort to “civilize” them. As a result, many of these countries that once organically embraced varying types of non binary existence are now completely the opposite. Mix in the weapons technology brought to many countries by Westerners and/or Europeans, and you have a recipe for violence against the ancestral traditions and peaceful ways of life that once existed in most cultures. The root of the rampant homophobia of countries such as Brazil and Jamaica is not in their ancestral traditions, but in their colonization by Europeans.
moana: the importance of the tuiga
moana showcases polynesia and the stories that polynesian/pacific islanders grew up with. it meddles with the lines of the different aspects between our cultures, and while showcasing the similarities in our cultures, polynesia and the pacific islands are still extremely diverse. moana presents samoan, tongan, hawaiian, tahitian, niuean, maori, cook islands, tuvalu, tokelauns, kiribati etc. aspects within it. all polynesian aspects. however for this i will be focusing on one aspect for Samoa.
so today i went to watch moana. i was very emotional throughout because hearing music you grew up with, seeing characters that look like you, and the people you grow up with, it can be overwhelming. especially when your people arent represented as much/not well enough in the media. however regardless of how emotional i became, the critics it had recieved from other polynesians/pacific islanders is valid and important. id suggest reading onenutmans review on moana if you havent yet before reading this, or even after.
theres not much i have to get off my chest that hasnt already been said by other pacific islanders. however one thing that did struck a chord with me was how the tuiga was presented in moana. first, id like to say that i am samoan. i grew up knowing bits and pieces of my culture. the importance of our dance, our songs, our stories and most importantly the tuiga. i dont think many non samoans understand what im talking about so to show you, this:
and as shown in moana:
is what as known as the tuiga. (tu-e-gah)
(this post is a bit long so this will be under a read more so bear with me)
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