Aloha guys, I just wanted to share a post I made and wanted to say a few things about it: We need to educate our haole (foreign) friends and family who do not know our cultures here in Hawai'i. Our ignorance of assuming that they should know is just the same as them knowing the do's and don't's of our culture and practices. We share the same responsibility of explaining and sharing our culture as they do of respecting it. It is a two-way street. You cannot attack them for not knowing if you never teach um. So with that being said, that is an #808Problem within itself. My husband took a rock while training at Pohakuloa in Big Island a couple years ago, before he and I got together. Since we have been together, he has learned a lot about our culture and respects it highly. He thought he had left it behind in the islands and we had just received our shipment of things today, which took two months to get to the East Coast. We moved from Hawaii to our mainland home because he has been stationed here. We've been here for less than a month, and we cannot afford to make a round trip to return the rock. To make things pono again, I immediately sealed it and dropped it off at the post office. We made our prayers and asked for forgiveness, and now it's on it's voyage back to its homeland. I'm sharing this to educate and show you that there are different perspectives and beliefs that people will feel about a simple mistake such as this, and will give positive and negative inputs on the situation. Whether people say good or bad, it is not my kuleana. But this is a constant issue that divides locals and haoles. Instead of bashing someone over a mistake, educate. Show them what is right and wrong within our culture, and be pono to them. We must change the attitudes we have towards people and instill aloha all around. Mahalos for reading, have a good one guys. 🤙🏼
