You Get Beef with Hawaii? Taken literally the phrase “You Get Beef?” would be ridiculous in normal english as it means would you like some beef meat, however in Hawaii pidgin english that is normally spoken it means “do you want to fight because you oppose something?”. There might be stickers as well as shirts that say the phrase and it can be seen as a saying that is only found in Hawaii. It would be used when asking someone if they have a problem and if they “like scrap?” or in normal english to exchange blows with one another with one's fists.
You Form Your Experience of Hawaii Being in Hawaii has people with all sorts of experiences and those moments that give them their examples of how to judge the island is varied and the reason why is the experience will be formed based on a number of things. It depends on how you carry yourself, the way you act, and the level and understanding of local etiquette and a very basic level of respect. It can be common when a topic when people who are in Hawaii are visiting or temporarily living in Hawaii try to take away the culture of the state or insult it in a very disrespectful way. Interrupting the peace of the state can be an easy way to make a Local in Hawaii really mad. Going on the highway with high acceleration and hostility on the road in the summer mango season flipping off a driver while filling up the beaches would have local law enforcement sound their siren quickly as they spot the out-of-state behavior that doesn’t follow local etiquette. Where you go is important as well, since there are some places and some areas you don’t want to be at certain times that would be thought as dangerous and simply ignored from the “Travel High” of feeling like its vacation time and its all about exploring and having fun. When you go to places there are also all sorts of people as everywhere in the world and that includes: those who are polite and nice with a sense of Aloha, those who are bitter and respond, and the occasional asshole who is going out to stir trouble, but when traveling it doesn’t come to you that Hawaii just may have similar problems as every other place. Assume we’re all Hawaiians and Surf When telling someone they are Hawaiian when they are Local can be a huge no no and can make someone who lives in Hawaii pretty irritated. Mocking it is even worse as it automatically places you on the insulting foreigner who labels Locals as rural barbaric-like, uninformed as well as uncultured, and ignores the history and culture entirely. Asking things like if a Hawaiian or local rides a dolphin to school, lives in grass shacks, or only knows of a volcano goddess can be nothing less than insulting. Not everyone surfs or goes to the beach, not everyone works at a Luau and drinks mai tais, and not every person lives in Honolulu. Underestimate the ethnic diversity. The state has close to 25% multi-ethnic backgrounds - many with two or more in the mix that is far more than all the other states. In the Past there were plenty of Hawaiians, however many diseases brought by the colonists killed many through epidemic disease in Hawaii (Colonial Epidemic Disease). In the Plantation Days of Hawaii there were many different ethnic groups that added to the local culture as they survived the brutal working conditions. Whatever image that has been conjured up in travel magazines and ideas from movies to define “Hawaii” really does not do it justice as it is really inadequate. Say that the Best Island on the Planet is Maui While in America Maui is the must go vision of paradise that people invision when going for a trip somewhere exotic it has also has gone through the most changes to serve the tourist market over its local residence. When people from Hawaii travel to see their relatives in other states or overseas they will always be asked about Maui or have the claim that its the best in more ways than to mix some poke. Only concentrating on the Beaches, the Hikes, Molokini and Plentiful Wildlife, The Road to Hana, and Haleakala Sunrises, and only talking about a single place can make people feel dismissed who live in the state of Hawaii. Every year there are many tourists rising and the amount of locals remains the same as tourism out numbers the amount of people able to serve them and that impacts the local culture as well as the landscape that makes people want to visit in the first place. Locals that once lived with a diverse economy of many businesses have become not entrepreneur friendly and changed the jobs that locals would have to do. With such drastic changes, the way of life has changed very quickly to feed more into a marketed Hawaii vision rather than the actual experience of Hawaii that reflects its past. Move to Hawaii as a Mainland-Transplant and then Talk Stink about the State Moving from Japan and saying it was better? Go home. Moving from any of the mainland United States states and saying it was better? Go home. Coming from anywhere in the world that is not Hawaii and talking about a bunch of reasons the state sucks and show you hate it in Hawaii? Go home. Why come to a place so far away to get there only to talk a bunch of crap about it and continue to live there or continue to visit there and keep on going back? No, Hawaii doesn’t need the tourism money or additional people taking up real-estate through investment and it doesn’t need people staying without spending any money. You might ask why? because the government uses it as leverage to over-specialize in the tourism market. The money all being focused in tourism-related markets and allows politicians to ignore other industries that make Hawaii unique and that means not tending to business-diversity or small businesses. While those places make Hawaii unique the large investments come from large franchises, but whats Hawaii with franchises you can try outside of Hawaii? Why come to Hawaii? So, when people make the threat they don’t want to come to Hawaii? If that was done en masse it would actually help change the opinions of powerful figures to invest in other industries for business-diversity, instead of all investment going into a single basket of tourism with real-estate takeover through business properties. Ask why we don’t have a Local Accent Not everyone speaks with a Local Accent and there are many specific accents based on where someone is from, even from area to area on a single island. Is it the Central Oahu Mililani dialect? Is it a Oahu Townie Accent? Does it have that Local North Shore dialect? Is it a non-local accent that is ethnic in nature? Or are you talking about the overly general “Local Accent” itself. Drive like a Tourist The fastest way a person identifies a tourist is on the road, because there are all sorts of license plates that are not from Hawaii. The style of driving leans much more freely without nervous consideration of whose turn it is to merge in, as well as when they choose to merge in at the front of the line rather than the back. Merging that is really quickly is not polite and seen as a mainland driving style technique or just as plain aggressive and is not the typical slow blinking merge that is practical of island life. Meanwhile, talking about driving etiquette in Hawaii, the “shaka” to the back driver that was expected has begun to disappear as disrespect has become more normalized on the roads, so those who don’t even check to see in the rearview mirror and send the symbol of thanks with the Hawaii hand signs are what hurt the driving etiquette of the Aloha state. Mix up the Schools teams In Hawaii the schools are part of how people analyze how someone was brought up, so Honolulu people think of the schools in that area, but the people in Waianae it’s the north shore schools, and in Kaneohe its the Windwardside schools. Are they public and have standard education or are they from privilege of Private school? Schools are not just schools, but part of the regional differences of a place with its mindset and vibe. Thinking Pineapple Pizza with Ham is Hawaiian The Popularized California Tiki Pizza or the Canadian Hawaii Pizza (1962, Chatham, Ontario Canada) that gets lots of marketing without any thought of what Pizza actually comes from Hawaii just makes a false image of the Pizza in Hawaii. While the popularity of the type of pizza has become parts of Hawaii’s Pizza menus it still is seen as part of mainland and Canadian food culture and is the foreign Pizza on the Hawaii Pizza selection menu. Order a California Poke Bowl Only thing that gets locals more angry is ordering a California Poke Bowl that is known as “Poke Salad” in Hawaii, in which the Poke portion of the name is really hard to defend. Traveling far far away to the middle of the ocean to an island and choosing Hawaii-influenced food known more in California and Ontario than Hawaii? While people may be angry at people who live in Hawaii the only disappointment is the possible experiences of what could have been that is part of the “only in Hawaii” experience of the traveler or foreigner who missed that chance. Its not only seemingly offensive, but also a missed opportunity.
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