Det är ganska vanligt att man tycker andra kulturer har konstiga saker för sig…speciella egenheter som kan skapa frustration eller frågetecken hos andra. Det gäller även här i Hawaii, dock kanske inte på samma grad som vissa andra kulturer. Här kommer en ett utdrag av Hawaiianska egenheter, skrivet av Keith Johnston på Kaneohe Magazine (en hyper-lokal ortstidning). Jag har lagt till några anmärkningar i paranteserna:
We don’t show up without bringing something,
and can’t go home without taking leftovers.
In Hawaii, you must leave a party early or be prepared to go home
in someone else’s black rubber slippers (flip flops) from the front porch.
Any acquaintance generationally older than yourself is aunty or uncle.
Aloha shirts are business formal.
Folks complain of the cold when it gets below 75 (24 grader celsius).
Kona winds are the absence of winds.
We have no smog but vog (rök från vulkanen) gives everyone headaches and a cough.
Hawaiian snow is ash from cane fires.
A B52 is a flying cockroach, remember to duck.
By late afternoon we know if it wil be termite night.
We want lizards to take up residence in the house.
”Up there” refers ot a destination on any point of the compass.
The points of the compass have been replaced with Mauka and Makai, Windward and Leeward. Eva and Diamond Head in Honolulu.
Most drivers stop at stop signs, but folks will stop in an intersection to wave a stranger or a friend and family through.
We don’t honk in traffic unless someone is on the sidewalk sign-waving
for our candidate or for your winning school football team.
We wave ot the other candidate’s sign wavers…because of aunty
and uncle.
The Department of Transportation closes four out of five lanes at rush hour, sometimes seemingly, to talk story.
A forty minute drive is a day trip.
The Toyota pickup is the state car.
We eat sushi from gas stations.
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