WTH is "whitewashed"?

Originally posted by Taualumna
That sounds very different compared to Asian families in Continental US, Canada and the rest of the world.

Being Asian in Hawai`i is VERY different from being Asian elsewhere.

Here, you're not "Asian". You're "local" -- a mixture of cultures and their ideals that has raised kids a certain way dating back to the plantation era in at the beginning of the 20th century.

So, when people ask me what I am, I'm not Asian. I'm local.