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Forgot about that. I always think of body shampoo when Keeaumoku is mentioned. /lol
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First of all, you must throw out your mainland definitions in regards to "ethnic town"..... On Oahu, your neighbor could be from 10 different countries or nationalities or mixed with this that and the other to the point that it's no big deal to us locals. That's what I like about this place. Oahu's China town is more of a historical location than the spot where Chinese live in general. Same goes with most other ethnic groups that have been here for a while and have established themselves. Fairly newcomers like Micronesians will have a different story as they seem to be struggling to move up. There is no "side of the tracks" neighborhoods like on the mainland. If you can afford the $760,000 cost of an "average" house, that's what matters here...... $$$ rules, not race.
Thank you all for your helpful answers.
Yes, I understand that is all pretty mixed, but I also know that people tend to gather around others of similar interests/tastes.
Everything that you know about the rest of the world means NOTHING in Hawai'i.
There is friction between racial groups, yet the individual members of those groups tend to forget that the next door neighbor is in a group that the individual doesn't get along with. "Normal" people (as opposed to wealthy immigrants) are often packed so closely together that you're hearing a conversation in Yokohama Japanese with your left ear and in Ilonggo with your right ear, while the store you're walking past has a big So Nyuh Shi Dae poster in the window.
Yes, there are areas where one culture is somewhat dominant, but even these are not like Little Tokyo in LA or Chinatown in SF. No cohesion. On one block, you might see more Chinese stores than any other kind, but between them there's a pizza place, and someone walking down the way has a bag from the European bakery a block makai.
Everything that you know about the rest of the world means NOTHING in Hawai'i.
There is friction between racial groups, yet the individual members of those groups tend to forget that the next door neighbor is in a group that the individual doesn't get along with. "Normal" people (as opposed to wealthy immigrants) are often packed so closely together that you're hearing a conversation in Yokohama Japanese with your left ear and in Ilonggo with your right ear, while the store you're walking past has a big So Nyuh Shi Dae poster in the window.
Yes, there are areas where one culture is somewhat dominant, but even these are not like Little Tokyo in LA or Chinatown in SF. No cohesion. On one block, you might see more Chinese stores than any other kind, but between them there's a pizza place, and someone walking down the way has a bag from the European bakery a block makai.
Most Japanese immigrants in Hawaii came from Kyushu and Okinawa (the latter likes to distinguish themselves apart from Japanese, i.e. organize their own annual cultural festival). They were mostly rural farmers who were very impoverished back home. Many of the third or fourth generation Japanese living on the islands are frugal. I guess that is the teaching from their grandparents.
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Ethnic Communities in Honolulu
