think about us, but the true story is that we have a place of abundance and we try to protect it. we try to protect all of these things that we ve been able to protect for the last thirty years, and it s getting harder and harder. every single one of these hawaiians over here get enough evidence that the state of hawaii, the department of land and natural resources, have done a terrible job. we re not even looking for blame. we re actually looking for an agreement that from today. right. we all gonna be pono, we all gonna be righteous, we all gonna be good. our planet is in such bad shape that being environmental, being green, is trending and that s where the hawaiians have always been. so who gets to be hawaiian? this is the question who is hawaiian? hawaiian is a nationality, brah. you can be hawaiian. really? come on, don t [bleep] me now. you have to be born here. they made us a state, they made us hawaiian is our blood. come on, this is a different story. wait
super bowl. and it s the most main street, usa or as much as you will find. town is a neighborhood spot in honolulu s kaimuki district and, as hawaii is the only state the union that allows day boat fisherman to sell directly to restaurants, the pan-roasted mahi-mahi is pretty [bleep] good. it s not a particularly welcoming or friendly part of the world, contrary to sort of the aloha myth. no, that s right. that s right, but no island is. nantucket isn t, the isle of wight, isn t. name an island. they want foreigners in corsica? sicily, they want foreigners there? no way, no way. right. did anyone ever come to an island with a good intention? no, never in the history of the world. no, no. best case scenario bring syphilis. yeah. pretty much. yeah, yeah. i mean, at the very least. and it happened, it happened
found something good in this beautiful world i felt the rain getting colder sha, la, la, la, la sha, la, la, la, la, la sha, la, la, la, la sha, la, la, la, la, la hawaii is america, as american as anything could possibly be. yet, it also never shed what was there before and the layers and layers that have come since. it s a wonderful, tricky, conflicted, mutant [bleep] broth in what, for lack of a better word, you d have to call paradise. nowhere s paradise.
the arts. that was a large population, more than half of what we have in hawaii today, fully sustainable because there was no other choice. so over time, the native hawaiian population goes to 22,000. it s the same story. introduced to disease, inability to deal with it, people die. 1926, the public school system would outlaw language and the practice of culture in public schools. so the road to extinction is being well paved. between captain cook s arrival in 1778 and today, disease wiped out most of the population. missionaries came. a booming sugar and pineapple plantation industry, an influx of immigrants from japan, okinawa, china, and the philippines. there was the overthrow of queen lili uokalani, and the u.s. takeover of the hawaiian government, world war ii, and, finally, statehood.
paradises don t exist. paradise is, kind of, in your head. wait, wait a minute. you look out your window here and you look at those hills, those mountains, all that green, that blue sky, and gin clear sea, it sure looks like paradise to me. this guy knows, he s been everywhere. he s paul theroux, novelist, essayist, and legendary traveler and travel writer. of all the places he s been, all the places he s seen, he chose hawaii to live, and he s lived here for 25 years. does it matter that it s america? no, that s a big thing, that it is america. it has elements of the third world, the nicest elements of the third world. right. which is funky. there s this self-respect, there s pride, there s things that don t work at all, and then it s main street, usa. where we are now, i mean, there s pta meetings here. they get together and watch the