EvacuateSoul comments on Congressional candidate Kirill Basin is knocked out by beachgoer after issuing threats to others.

[–] EvacuateSoul@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Hawaiian native I guess. He says watch your mouth Haole boy.

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[–] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 months ago

Sounds like he was speaking Pidgin. I'm guessing you know this, but for the others: Haole are people not from the island, but doesn't always apply to tourists from what I have read.

Hawaiian identity is somewhat complicated.

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[–] Pat_Riot@lemmy.today 2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

He don't look like he has any business throwing haole around.

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[–] TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today 10 points 3 months ago

It's complicated...... Hawaiian pidgin developed in the late 1800s from multi ethnic plantations. It's a blended version of English with Hawaiian, Portuguese, Japanese, Cantonese, and Filipino languages. It's not really distinct to a single ethnicity on the islands, it's spoken by around half of the population of Hawaii. So it's more of a distinction that you are a local rather than being a native Hawaiian.

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