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Olympic surfing exposes whitewashed Native Hawaiian roots

SANTA CRUZ, Calif. (AP) — For some Native Hawaiians, surfing’s Olympic debut is both a celebration of a cultural touchstone invented by their ancestors, and an extension of the racial indignities seared into the history of the game and their homeland.

The Tokyo Summer Games, which open July 23, serve as a proxy for that unresolved tension and resentment, according to the ethnic Hawaiians who lament that surfing and their identity have been culturally appropriated by white outsiders who now stand to benefit the most from the $10 billion industry.

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    1. I think you have summed it up best.

      This cultural appropriation and hate whitey … is the shit we are all sick and tired of. It no longer has legs .. Give it up … More cultures appropriate western culture than the other way around.

      Do Hawaiians drive cars, eat in restaurants, have running shoes, etc.? All appropriated from us. Do we care? Why should we …. we simply sell it to them. And they pay up. Hell … are even selling them ukuleles.

      1. To be fair, the surfing thing is a bit of a red herring. There is, however a level of resentment towards the US govt. over the way the Islands came to be in the US’s possession. There is a fairly active independence movement and definitely resentment of haole’s and tourists in general. Having said that, when I compare native Hawaiians to native Americans stuck in reserves – there is a marked difference in living standards. Even with the high living expenses in comparison to the mainland, the polynesian population appears to be better adapted to modern society and have managed to hold on to elements of their culture.

    2. OK … I’ll say it. If the Pacific Islanders invented surfing, then the white man PERFECTED it. No more random planks of wood and bark, but foam, fiberglass, and carbon fiber works of science and art shaped for specific types of waves and riding. And then white surfers pushed the boundaries of the sport … even the ridiculous BIG WAVE riding.

      It’s really like Blues music … the black man invented it … but Led Zeppelin PERFECTED it … gave it even MORE soul than the original. Yeah, yeah … I’m supposed to worship the original form more than the white man’s PERFECTIONS … but that’s nonsense. I LOVE Brit Blues of the 60’s and 70’s.

      And I’ll give another example that’s hard to argue. The Communist Chinese have reverse-engineered and stolen/copied millions of the white man’s inventions … built them cheaper, and sold them cheaper than the originals. As an audiophile who worships the warmth of tubes and is a collector of pricey American-made McIntosh audio equipment … (my pride and joy are my monoblocked MC-275’s) … I also own some Jolida equipment. Yep. Made in Shanghai … by stealing some of the best of the white man’s circuitry and transformer design. And the cost is only a small fraction of my MAC equipment. So why aren’t the leftists carping about the ChiCom’s … appropriating … the white man’s inventions? Ohhhhh … I get it … the white man would never have invented those things without the slave labor of the black man … gawwwwd … Niggahhhh Puhhhleeeeze … give it a rest.

  2. I guess this means only Europeans can take part in cycling. The hockey tournament would be pretty boring with only Canadians playing. Best to just call the whole thing off.

  3. Oh, dear. All those Beach Boys surfing songs will now be considered racist.

    1. Wrong – the surf culture is most definitely Californian. While the wheel may have been invented in the middle east, Henry Ford put it to use. Another class of pathetic whiners. Just what the world needs. Good luck on independence with only 10% of the population being Pacific Islander.

      1. Well The Beach Boys DID steal from The Ventures …
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owq7hgzna3E
        Imagine that … humankind has been “appropriating” from each other throughout all of human history. Meh.

        BTW … the US Patent Office DOES issue NEW Patents for simple “improvements” to an existing patent.

  6. It echoes back to days when England felt they “owned” Football and that they should set all of the rules for the rest of world. How did that work out for them?

    Poor Hawaii, millions of dollars made off of the surfing fans that go to there for the experience, the amateur and professional events, and the local industries making money off of the sport throughout the islands. No one is stopping any Hawaiian from qualifying for these events. Maybe they should be better at the sport?

    1. Well, the game as we know it was invented, and organized in England, spread around the world by the British navy.
      Rules, football pyramid, tactics, all invented by England, which everyone bases their national structures on.

      So yeah, we do “own” it. As much as someone can own a game concept. The rest of the world has added their own styles, culture, tactics to make the beautiful game what it is today.

  7. How about they go back to the grass skirt and a plank and leave off all the items they have expropriated from other cultures

  8. Alas, it’s all about the money. $10B isn’t exactly chump change and they want a cut.
    Heads up all you dastardly cultural appropriating skateboarders…you’re surfing with wheels.

    Too much silliness for me, especially when it involves sports. In a case of reverse cultural appropriation the British Empire exported the game of Cricket to faraway locales like India, Zimbabwe, Afghanistan and Pakistan and who btw are absolutely bonkers for Cricket, in fact some of the best players have come from those regions.
    You don’t see Nigel from Manchester crying in his afternoon tea.

    1. They’re eating their own.

      Maher makes some good points sometimes and this just cannot be allowed by the insane left. If he gets strung up on a lamppost by them, then maybe some more will wake up.

  12. They really hate white people, and now they’re monetizing their hatred.
    My word, but how I detest them. They make Adolph look like a piker.

  13. “Locals Only”…
    A gentleman I worked with in the ’90s was an old Southern California surfer. He related stories about the surfer “gangs” on the coast that were so cultist about their particular “turf”, that if an outsider ended up there, they’d set his car or truck on fire.

    Sometimes I think that the story about the “Tower of Babel” might be what is going on right now…

  14. There will always be a communist fringe made up of idiots. Most Hawaiians though have no problem with others appropriating surfing just as they have no problem with themselves using indoor plumbing, toilets, etc.

    There are probably those that could still be convinced to throw virgins into a volcano.

    1. Judging by Hawaii’s (and California’s, and Canada’s) electoral habits, I’d say that it ain’t a fringe of idiots, its a majority of them.

  16. Hawaiians they’re like Indians without parries or long houses but with surf boards.

  18. Funny.
    “Everything we do has a connection to Hawaii. I think it’s impossible to detach Hawaiianness from surfing,” Aguerre said. “The ocean doesn’t really care about hate, war or governments. Surfing is that way, too.”

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