I am a Filipino guy who grew up in Hawaii. I attended a Asian Leadership course in the Midwest and just found out that Mainland Asians have a totally different experience from us Asians who grew up from Hawaii. For example, it just seem that alot of Asians in the mainland feel more secluded and more a minority here in their own country of the US. It's just totally different in Hawaii, where after moving here, I pretty much grew up here welcome and now consider it my second home.

A country beside your homeland will always be a foreign and strange country, especially when most of the people around you don't look like you and have a culture that is different from your own.

Australia is my country, yes, but my homeland, no.

I dunnoz, I pretty much feel like a fish out of water in both the country I was born in i.e Phils and the country where I live in now i.e Oz . I guess it's coz I grew up half my childhood in the Middle East.

This is simple. Its because Hawaii has so MANY asians in it where white people are the actual minority. Asians in the continental U.S. may feel alienated but that is because they are a rather small minority and tend to congregate in small social networks.

In Hawaii, the situation is the opposite where a sizeable portion of the population is descended from Japanese, Chinese, Phillipino, Korean, etc immigrants. In fact 58% of the population of Hawaii are of asian descent.

that's right but it's not just because there asians in here, there's no minority in hawaii, all major asian groups, ie j@p, phil, etc., hawaiian, and white, all have about the same percentage in population. you have to see it for yourself, it's just much more welcome here more warmer, i attend school in the mainland and i feel like damn it's cold, people are cold like they see you as just another person, like here in hawaii people tend to be more warme and hospitable. I'm not trying to generalized in teh whole of the mainland us but it's just what it seems you know, talk to hawaii residents and they'll tell you about it.

Aloha Kakahiaka I recomend watching Kumu hula and The Hawaiian Rainbow both great cultural movies on dvd. Caucasians may be the minority overall but they control everything they turned the Island of Hawaii to California the rest of the islands are more traditional looking but Hawaii is messed up (the majority of it anyway) just like what they did over here to the Natives they went to Hawaii and did the same thing for example I think if your not atleast half Native Hawaiian you loose you racial Identification and Governmental help, It's always about money with governments.

Lol... spare me

what ya mean
oz

you know, australia. Aussies call it Oz for short, I have no idea why

oh okay, so you like...no offense but did you accumulate a "'ello mayte" accent or what. us here in HI we use pidgin, so we kinda have a lil pidgin accent. not me so much because i had lived the whole last year in the mainland and my dad did not let us talk but straight english or filipino

Kinda but not that really strong Aussie accent. I don't really pronounce my 'R's and yeah, I say all those usual Aussie slang. But I can still speak Filipino, but not as well as b4.

i think that british, which is kinda similar to australian admit it, accent is cute. there's this one pretty hot milf she was a black chic from london in training, she sound really classy. but i think chics with the local hawaiian accent or the southern us accent is even sexier, especially the one like around tennessee. but of course flip chic accent is sexy too.