i dont have an issue with that girl. she moved. shes enjoying it. big woop. and hawaii is the USA officially. yes they have their own cultures and traditions, but don't deny facts. and no need to sh*t on the girl on the left whos happy. being a tourist in hawaii is fine. moving to hawaii is fine. people do that in other states too. and other countries.
There is a lot of nuance and context you’re missing here and it goes beyond just “hating on a girl” for moving to another state.
Other countries may invite tourism but it’s unkind to insinuate that it’s a positive outlook for everyone especially for Hawaii whose history is entrenched in colonialism. A lot of their culture and traditions have been sanitized as they are made to sell themselves for tourism. The infrastructure of their job market is often built on tourism.
In addition, the framing of Hawaii being a tourist destination wasn’t cultivated by the locals there. It was a perception made by white people who moved there for other white people -- it’s easy to sell a remote island as an ideal paradise where people can move and have no worries.
The problem is that the vision the girl on the left is enjoying is an idyllic fantasy that is reaped and enjoyed only by the white tourists like her that move there, while the indigenous people who have been born there are only living the consequences of what their ancestors faced at the hands of their colonizers while facing racial disparity in their own home.
For white tourists, Hawaii is an “escape”, it’s a “paradise” for them to come and enjoy. But for the indigenous people who have lived there, it’s their home and a lot of their livelihood is constantly being challenged and stolen.
You mention Hawaii is a part of the USA officially, and that is correct, but we should also acknowledge that Hawaii didn’t become a part of the US willingly. (And I think it can be argued that a lot of the states of the US were not acquired by “friendly” means.)
There was coercion. The US overthrew Queen Liliʻuokalani essentially to seize control over it as a “territory”. The US would only admit to this act being illegal over 100 years later.
And honestly, I’m also just barely scratching the surface of this.
I feel you approached this in what you thought was a very logical way of thinking and because you also don’t want to excuse unkind treatment of people for what you probably assume is unwarranted and for no reason.
But I think you need to think about your reasoning of why your gut instinct was to assume that a brown woman was attacking a white woman for “no reason” when this is clearly racially charged conversation. This sort of thing has subtext. It has more beyond what you are seeing on the surface.
You talk about not denying the facts when you don’t even have all of it on hand.
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