Hawaii IS part of America. No one who is chosen to live in Hawaii by the government comes here to disrespect your culture. We come here because we were told to. And while there are plenty of anti-government threads out there, it bears saying that the US Government, much like every government, will not do a single solitary constructive thing to keep its working bodies out of harm, as long as commanders put on captain, and admirals put on more stars, with regular timing. That includes any sort of meaningful prosecution/punishment for assaulting its service members.

And as far as your culture goes, grats and kudos and all the usual accolades that you have one that you are so proud of. But people who come here from the mainland, like it or not, are not going to go out of their way to pay anything more then passing homage to your culture. You are, like it or not, simply another state of the union. People in North Dakota, or Washington, or Florida, do NOT engage in active racism/attacks of people who dont “respect their culture”. Perhaps us rotten haoles have a bit to learn about being arrogant, but so too do you. People who claim the “pure local” status need to earnestly and seriously -get over yourselves-.

As long as your children are dropping 200,00 mcdonalds wrappers on the ground, while walking around totally unsupervised by their parents, no one is going to see your “culture” as anything worth passing notice, let alone the unspecified and arrogant “respect” you demand.