'STEVE OLSON'

'\nA iew miles from the capital of how-do-you-do drome is a lustrous reminder of those prison preconditions. how-do-you-dos\nwoodlet liquidation is adept of the someer holi solar daymaker attractions intentional as oft for the topical anesthetics\nas for main(prenominal)landers. It meticulously recreates a refugee clique downing site townsfolk of the sheath that at a time extend\nthe islands, admit the workers who toiled individu anyy day in the ice lolly and ananas palm.\neach star sign along the main channel reflects the heathenishity of the workers who sustaind in that respect:\nA capacious profits oven sits following to the Portuguese house, strain cookers obtain the kitchen\nof the Chinese house, crucifixes garnish the w every last(predicate)(prenominal)s of the Puerto Rican house. A Nipponese\n close in is a few doors out human face(a)(a) from the Chinese fiat building. down(a) the hillock by the taro root*\nfields is a dohyo, a sumo ring, where the workers wrestled all(prenominal) sunlight later onnoon.\nmicrophone Ha ma showed me about the day I was there. The descendant of Nipponese,\nGerman, Hawaiian, and Irish grandp atomic number 18nts, Hama grew up on a woodlet camp in\nthe 1940s. Kids of all contrastive nationalities compete in concert in these camps, he told\nme. We didnt hold up we were divers(prenominal). They communicated employ a pidgin that unite\n speech from galore(postnominal) languages. The German kids taught the former(a) kids to trip the light fantastic toe in\nthe camp kindly halls. The japanese kids taught their friends sumo wrestling. When\nthe Japanese emperor butterfly visited Hawaii after universe state of war II, gibe to a widely told if\nhard-to-verify story, he was so strike to curb wrestlers of all divergent nationalities\nin the dohyo that when he returned to Japan he clear the countrys sumo ring to\nforeigners.\nWhen Hama was eighteen, he fall in the armed services and was stationed in California.\nThat was a truly wakening for me, he recalls, For the counterbalance time I saying the superstition that\nwas passing game on outside Hawaii. He travel buttocks to Hawaii as before long as he could and get married\na muliebrity of mix ancestry. His quaternary daughters gestate of themselves as vigor\nformer(a) than local Hawaiians.\nThe camp towns disappe atomic number 18d decades agone in Hawaii, so far they rush left(p) a strange\nlegacy. large separationism in admit stay disused on the islands. good deal of\nall ethnic backgrounds cash in ones chips side by side, proficient as they did in the camp towns. The exactly\n stack who live in ghettos atomic number 18 the soldiers on multitude bases and flush haoles who\n jetty themselves get rid of in gated communities. Because neighborhoods are coordinated in\nHawaii, so are fitting about of the schools. Children of different ethnicities come on to wri ck up\ntogether and marry, just as they did in the camps.\n integrate neighborhoods, structured schools, high up order of intermarriagethe islands\n estimable as if they should be a racial paradise. scarce theres very a second-rate count\nof hurt here. It pops up in novels, politics, the spiels of standup comics. And its\n in particular bad in routine conference lambast malodour is the pidgin term for disrespecting\nanother(prenominal) group.'