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ProgressiveProfessor

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3. What about some other words?

Reply to ellisonz (Reply #2)

Fri Dec 16, 2011, 08:06 PM

Dec 2011

Like Moke and Tita? At my age, they are certainly out of the repertoire, but I wonder if they are still used.

Back in the day they were some of the more common responses to the use of the word haole.

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Book Review: Judy Rohrer, Haoles in Hawai‘i: Race and Ethnicity in Hawai‘i. UH Press - 2010 [View all] ellisonz Dec 2011 OP

In my experience it is almost exclusively used as a perjorative ProgressiveProfessor Dec 2011 #1

Thank you for sharing. ellisonz Dec 2011 #2

What about some other words? ProgressiveProfessor Dec 2011 #3

Agreed. ellisonz Dec 2011 #4

um.... "Kam" is a Chinese school.... PoiBoy Dec 2011 #5

You got me! See above now. ellisonz Dec 2011 #6

Yet most of the time, its still call Kam. Same thing with the highway ProgressiveProfessor Dec 2011 #7

Pono PoiBoy Dec 2011 #8