Let’s not credit just Chris Sanders for this. This happened because they cast actual Hawaiian Actors like Tia Carrere and Jason Scott Lee to play Hawaiian characters, and allowed the actors to have input into writing the characters’ lines.
This sort of authenticity comes from accuracy and authenticity in casting choices. The fact that Chris Sanders as direct/writer facilitated that does not mean he gets credit for the actors’ experience.
This is why diversity and representation in media matters.
Dude as a hawaiian, this is like straight up what my life as a kid was. My mom worked at those fakey luaus full time to pay rent. My mom is someone who is absolutely passionate and proud about being a hawaiian, living and teaching the ways our ancestors lived and taught.
See, we Hawaiians, we live by the way of aloha. And not by the way of “hello” “goodbye”, let me educate you. As Pono Shim, CEO and President of Enterprise Honolulu, the Oahu Economic Development Board, states absolutely perfectly “aloha is to be in the presence of life, to share the essence of one’s being with openness, honesty, and humility. It is a way of being, a way of behaving, a way of life. It is a commitment to accepting others and giving dignity to who they are and what they have to offer.” Aloha is more than hello and goodbye. Think of aloha as an abbreviation.
Akahai: meaning kindness
Lokahi: meaning unity
Olu’Olu’: meaning agreeableness
Ha’aha’a: meaning humility
Ahonui: meaning patience
This is something we all need to live by, seriously, we all should
the dropped sub-plot was that lilo hated tourists, which is why she goes around taking pictures of them like they were attractions instead of people; like how they took photos of locals
similarly there was a deleted scene where she scares tourists off of a beach by sounding a false tsunami siren to watch them run screaming
deeper in the lore that kid thats a prick to her, mertyle, is the daughter of the person who runs the megamart and crushed a lot of other local businesses- when they have to do a hula to tell a story mertyle actually uses it to describe the low prices, where lilo does a hula about a traditional creation myth that was important to her mother. you may notice both lilo and nani are on first name basis with both the coffee shop owner and the fruitseller, there is big disparity between the locals and foreign interest businesses relegating them to just be tourist industry
friendly reminder that lilo & stitch is indisputably the best disney film
Hey my recent post about Puerto Rico got a lot of attention, so can you guys help spread this message just as much?
Don’t call Puerto Ricans Americans. We hate America and we hate Americans. Sorry, but yall have left every decent human being around the world to rot and die and we don’t want to be associated with you.
It’s like trying to call the Vietnamese “French” bc they were under French colonial rule. It’s wrong and its insulting. We dont want to be a part of a country that’s set out to kill us.
Please, Puerto Rico has a beautiful culture and all that calling us Americans does is further pull us away from that culture. America has ruined us, and I’m honestly sick of everyone trying to make us a part of them.
We are boricua, we are Puerto Rican, we are criollo. But we are not Americans, I would gladly burn the American flag and put up the new revolutionary Puerto Rican flag. Please, pleaseeee support the struggle for independence.
“Yes, the white man who buys us is bad, but the criollo who sells us is worse.”
A left wing person: Hi, I champion the rights of minorities.
Me: Have you heard that people in their own country, speaking one of that country’s native languages have had to fight for the right to be educated in their own language?
LWP: That’s awful.
Me: Sixty years ago children were beaten in school for speaking it.
LWP: A sign of cultural imperialism if ever I’ve heard it.
Me: And now even slightly token support gets a load of vitriol from the right wing. Railway signs make them foam at the mouth.
LWP: Seeing a minority language causes people anger? That’s so backwards.
Me: Now they have 2.5 million over a period of 15 years to make a historical dictionary which already exists for English, its finally getting something that English speakers have taken for granted.
LWP: That’s great!
Me: Yeah, it’s really good that Scottish Gaelic has at least some support.
LWP: Scottish….Gaelic? Um, no thanks. That’s the preserve of blood and soil nationalists and I’m always suspicious of people who support it.
maybe disaffected white people looking for a cosmic experience should just stick to doing acid in their fucking backyard and maybe go to church once in a while.
But no, instead they travel around the world, disrupt communities and sometimes commit literal murder, and I’m supposed to feel sympathetic because he cried for his mama shortly after killing a medicine person?
Her name was Olivia Arévalo. At 81, she was not only an Elder but the spiritual mother of the Shipibo-Konibo Nation. This wasn’t a one-off occurrence. Indigenous spiritual leaders are being targeted and assassinated throughout Latin America.
Indigenous leaders & spiritual figures are murdered for political reasons, for capitalist reasons, and generally both where land or water disputes arise— particularly where human rights violations come into play, as well. And there’s your “standard,” local anti-Native hate crimes and violence. And then there’s this.
Tourism to consume and use pieces of a culture to ~decorate / enrich~ paying visitors, particularly “visitors” with colonial intent or privilege, often walks hand in hand with racialized violence & exploitation, whether it’s sexual in nature (“sex tourism” or out and out sexual assaults & abuses) or non-sexual violence— like these kind of targeted murders, tantamount to & continuing legacies of both physical and cultural genocides, fulfilling tourists’ fantasies of conquest or supremacy; or just reinforcing the disposability of “visited” peoples whose reliance on tourism makes them easy targets for abuse by people who will never face the consequences of their actions.
When indigenous peoples must turn their culture into a sideshow & open themselves up to vulnerability to the highest bidder just in order to subsist, that is a kind of occupation.
It is an inherently neocolonial capitalist racial violence, with a very real body count.
I hope Olivia Arévalo’s surviving family finds peace in the wake of the injustice & violence they endured and avenged. I hope Olivia’s spirit finds a kinder fate in her next life than this.
Also it mentions in the article that the community tried to report the tourist to the police on several occasions for other bad behavior but the police didn’t do anything. The MP to the region called the community “savages” as well. I understand why the community wanted to take matters into their own hands considering how little institutional support they get because they’re indigenous.
A new rule championed by Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai would limit internet and phone access for millions of low-income and elderly Americans.
Pai’s proposed changes to the Lifeline program, which currently serves 12 million Americans by providing subsidized phone and internet service, would cut service to about 70 percent, or 8 million, of them. Many of these recipients live in Puerto Rico and rely on Lifeline for assistance as they recover from Hurricane Irma.
Last week, a group of Democratic Senators including Kamala Harris, Bernie Sanders, Kirsten Gillibrand, Jeff Merkley, Edward J. Markey, Ron Wyden, Richard Blumenthal, Elizabeth Warren, Dick Durbin and Cory Booker wrote a letter to the FCC chairman questioning his motives.
“The Lifeline program is essential for millions of Americans who rely on subsidized internet access to find jobs, schedule doctor’s appointments, complete their school assignments, interface with the government, and remain connected in a digital economy,” they wrote. “The program helps Americans—including disproportionate numbers of families with children, veterans and people of color—survive.”
The letter also questioned the economic reasoning for the program change. “It is unclear why the FCC would spend billions of dollars to expand access to broadband while at the same time make Lifeline less accessible to those who need it most,” it read.
The Lifeline program is a 33-year-old bipartisan program started under President Ronald Reagan and bolstered by Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama. Low-income Americans are granted a monthly household subsidy of $9.25 to help pay for internet and phone service. Changes proposed by Pai would prevent telecom companies that don’t provide their own infrastructure, like AT&T or Sprint, from offering the subsidized plans. About 70 percent of users are on a plan that doesn’t use its own infrastructure. The Lifeline service is paid for through special service fees on phone bills.
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In Puerto Rico, where 550,000 people, or about 17 percent of the total population, use the Lifeline program, communities are much more isolated and poverty is much more extreme than it is in the continental United States, according to the Census Bureau. “These are rural communities two hours away from any real health care,” he said. “We’re not talking about giving these people unlimited texting. This isn’t a luxury. This is something people use to take care of their basic needs.”
y’all ever notice the passive language used when talking about post-colonial states? i guess ‘the british withdrew from south yemen in 1967’ sounds more palatable than ‘yemeni communists and leftists fought the british until they retreated and then they took back control of their country’
Gaelic hasnt been lost. It’s never died or been brought back. There’s an unbroken line of native speakers going back to the beginning of the language. That doesn’t seem like a ‘lost’ language to me. Furthermore I’m not sure what ‘artificial life-support’ means in this context. Gaelic is given funding for schools because there’s still native speakers of the language. It’s no more artificial than money being given to schools for English language lessons.
If anything is ‘artificial’ its the imposition of a foreign language
(English) into a Gaelic majority zone and native speakers having to
fight for decades to be able to be taught in their own language. Native speakers being forced to learn English to exist within their own regions because a central government would not allow services to be given in a people’s own language.
But then the clock only goes back so far with people who wish that minority languages would just die. There’s nothing artificial about shooting someone but suddenly it becomes an ‘artificial’ act to maybe phone an ambulance?
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