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• 02:31:57 pm on June 27, 2008 | # | |
  Tags: hawaii, tourism

  A call for Muslims to better understand the struggle of Native Hawaiians. There are 45 tourists for every person of Hawaiian heritage on the islands. That’s incredible. But seems about right from what I remember from my visit.

  Haunani-Kay Trask’s From a Native Daughter: Colonialism & Sovereignty in Hawai’ describes tourism as “cultural prostitution.” What do you guys think about that? I think its a harsh description, but accurate. I remember feeling suffocated by the tourist culture in Luxor, Egypt, making it my least favorite place there.

   

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  razib 2:55 pm on June 27, 2008 | #

  hm. mebee i missed something, but that article copied doesn’t seem to want to point out that the islands are politically dominated to a great extent by japanese americans now.

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  aziz 6:11 am on June 29, 2008 | #

  The locla culture, for understandable reasons, has evolved to support anf encourage the tourist industry, so theres a positive feedback cycle going on. its sad that local culture has been diluted, but then again cultures are not static things. Prostitution? perhaps, but what was the alternative? retreat completely like the Amish into enclaves on the island highlands?

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