Am I Hawaiian enough?
Mac Marshall’s, “Openings” from Namoluk Beyond the Reef really hit a core inside of me. His discussion of how places can trigger self-reflection and cause people to identify with them and others, and how this has led to an ongoing argument in anthropology over this idea of “globalization,” reminded me of a conversation I had a few years back with a good friend. Our discussion, which was about how we stood on the issue of the Thirty-Meter-Telescope on the top of Maunakea, had become one of a passionate but friendly discourse. I was currently taking astronomy classes in college, and she was a Pacific Island Studies major. My argument was that I tried to remind her that we were once a people that often looked to the stars, we were all natural explorers. I tried to make her imagine how proud we would be as a people to know that the largest telescope would be available to our own people, built on our lands, and how this would not only help us as Hawaiians, but how it would help the w
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