If I grew up in Alaska I probably would have considered going to college in Hawaii, too. But I don’t think I would have been surprised or disappointed to discover that Hawaii is filled with Pacific Islanders. Just sayin’.
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See, now that was the reason I found Honolulu such a fascinating city when I first visited there. It truly seemed a crossroads of the Pacific.
For my untraveled eyes it was a very Asian city, and quite different from the ghettoized Chinatowns or Japantowns or Little Saigons of my native California.
Add that to the list of yet another Palin thought process that is totally incomprehensible to me.
Alaskans really do call leaving the State “going Outside”, even if it’s only to go as far as that northern metropolis, Whitehorse, Yukon Territory ,Canada (lovely town, btw). I have an aunt (majorly right-wing despite being a closet lesbian) that has lived in Alaska for almost fifty years and was a major chronicler of the state for at least 25 or those. People have from Alaska actually make the connection between she an I because she was so well known we share such an unusual last name. A lot of the people I met through her hadn’t been “outside” for decades.
What’s especially disturbing to me is the implication that up until then Palin obviously had little contact with Alaska natives – who are distinctly mongoloid in appearance. How else could she have found “Asians and Pacific Islanders” so foreign? I’ve spent a lot of time in Alaska, especially as a child (when Palin would have been in High School) and the native peoples are kinda hard to miss, unless you were really working at it.
Yeah, I lived in Alaska as a child too, and that statement (from SP’s father) just doesn’t make sense. I learned quickly to deal with hearing a language I didn’t understand and accept different cultural practices, even deal with witnessing dire poverty. Can’t see how, after growing up in Alaska, Sarah could have found Hawaiians that exotic. But then, nothing about her makes much sense.
Especially after the Alaska pipe-line boom, all sorts of “exotic” types moved up there for a decent manual-labor wage on the project. My aunt, of course, was dismissive of all the “outside” riff-raff coming in (especially the non-white ones) to work on the project. As if bringing in a lot of single men (or married men who left their wives and kids in the lower 48) who would work extremely remotely for six week periods, and then arrive in town all cashed up, was not going have its inherent problems – primarily alcohol abuse and prostitution.
So unlike what the Navy had to offer the state.
But i bet if you grew up in Alaska, you might have read a few newspapers or books, unlike this crazy woman. Those books and magazines and newspapers are so darn informin’ ya know?
“they were a minority type thing and it wasn’t glamorous..”
Unlike Sarah, in her acid washed jeans and moussed hair, smelling all patriotic like the flags back in Wasilla, blowing in the Godly Alaskan wind, and, also, too, the specter of Todd and his manly chest and fertile smile beckoning her back to the homeland.
is that snark or did she actually write that in her book?
I was going for a parody, but I can’t do her unique sentence structure justice. )
lol. I liked “moussed hair”. Also.
I worked on Kauai for a couple of years after the ’92 hurricane Iniki. What becomes apparent quickly is that if you are white you are likely in a minority! And you quickly realize it’s not as simple as seeing a few native Hawaiians and a few Japanese. Hawaii is home to a huge diversity of peoples which to the uninitiated white Alaskan girl could have seemed pretty daunting.
In the winter months Hawaii is always home to many from the big North, Canadians flock to the islands as well as Alaskans. Those that fished all summer in the upper Pacific climes and made some cash often come to surf and warm up during the off months.
If poor little Sarah thought she would come to a land of sunshine and surf and live off her looks she was likely told to stand in line as there are some of the most beautiful & sophisticated women in the world that call Hawaii home. Likely as not, she also ran into the structure that Hawaiians are accustomed to people coming to their land with no intention of staying and so they often are not as open armed embracing of strangers beyond light friendships.
Of course it’s a complex place and complexity has never been something she’s taken the time to understand so who knows what she experienced.
it was just such a scary native Hawaiian that kept her out of the White House
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Clearly a self-professed disciple of Jesus, explains all …
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