Thus the word haole has very negative connotations. From Wordnik.com. [WeLove-music] Reference
Nowadays the haole is the number one ethnic group in terms of population. From Wordnik.com. [WeLove-music] Reference
Oh, yes, and I was always told "haole" was not a pejorative term unless there was an adjective in front of the word. From Wordnik.com. [Maxine Hong Kingston: Obama on O'ahu] Reference
His struggles produced a very different kind of haole than the businessmen who ran the Islands, Tomimbang said. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Yet it is a label with plenty of room for maneuver, in which individual actors can shape what kind of haole they perform. From Wordnik.com. [Bad Subjects - 76: Race and Culture] Reference
"Great is your haole wisdom," he conceded at last. From Wordnik.com. [THE BONES OF KAHEKILI] Reference
"But they didn't throw the haole shipments overboard!". From Wordnik.com. [Hawaii]
"She has fallen in love with a haole," Nyuk Tsin replied. From Wordnik.com. [Hawaii]
Our son is hapa haole hapa Paké, half white half Chinese. From Wordnik.com. [Maxine Hong Kingston: Obama on O'ahu] Reference
Very haole was Bella Castner, fair-skinned, fine-textured. From Wordnik.com. [ON THE MAKALOA MAT] Reference
The drunken haole, Howard, can prove the missionaries wrong. From Wordnik.com. [SHIN-BONES] Reference
"Stephen Knight is a hapa-haole and you know what that means.". From Wordnik.com. [ALOHA OE] Reference
It is ever so where the haole conflicts with the easier races. From Wordnik.com. [ON THE MAKALOA MAT] Reference
A haole bystander idled up and asked, "What you want, General?". From Wordnik.com. [Hawaii]
Steve was not a hapa-haole -- she knew that; but she did not know that. From Wordnik.com. [ALOHA OE] Reference
'I can see nothing,' he said finally, then turned on the hapa - haole. From Wordnik.com. [The Sheriff of Kona] Reference
He had not imaged island empire in terms of gunpowder and haole gunners. From Wordnik.com. [SHIN-BONES] Reference
There he was, like any haole, driving straight toward the end determined. From Wordnik.com. [Koolau the Leper] Reference
You could say that Obama is hapa haole hapa popolo, half white half black. From Wordnik.com. [Maxine Hong Kingston: Obama on O'ahu] Reference
Other women, hapa-haole and full native, watched her anxiously as she fled. From Wordnik.com. [THE BONES OF KAHEKILI] Reference
I started out as a haole and attained the rank of kamaaina from my neighbors. From Wordnik.com. [Is Barack Obama's first memoir "a blueprint for negative attacks"?] Reference
I learned then and for ever what quantities of drink haole sailormen can stand. From Wordnik.com. [THE BONES OF KAHEKILI] Reference
But his schoolmates wouldn't've seen the haole part, and simply called him popolo. From Wordnik.com. [Maxine Hong Kingston: Obama on O'ahu] Reference
Even the haole sailormen made pause of silence, and with open mouths stared upon her. From Wordnik.com. [THE BONES OF KAHEKILI] Reference
Obama cannot be easily considered hapa haole or hapa popolo, half white or half black. From Wordnik.com. [Maxine Hong Kingston: Obama on O'ahu] Reference
Yet is the awa but a common man's drink, while the haole liquor is a drink for chiefs. From Wordnik.com. [THE BONES OF KAHEKILI] Reference
And there is continuous linguistic argument whether haole is a good word or a bad word. From Wordnik.com. [Maxine Hong Kingston: Obama on O'ahu] Reference
No haole could appreciate the fervor with which Japanese combated the use of this word. From Wordnik.com. [Hawaii]
Joe felt, as much as a haole can, that it was his island, that he had a right to be there. From Wordnik.com. [Joe Burke's Last Stand] Reference
Do the haole women who brought in this bill need fireworks for their religious ceremonies?. From Wordnik.com. [Hawaii]
She wears skirts like the degraded haole women -- also corsets, as I have seen for myself. From Wordnik.com. [THE TEARS OF AH KIM] Reference
But he did not know it, nor did anybody else guess it except that cursed hapa-haole, Stephen. From Wordnik.com. [The Sheriff of Kona] Reference
I will go only hand in hand with my man, side by side, fifty-fifty as is the haole slang just now. From Wordnik.com. [THE TEARS OF AH KIM] Reference
Then they bore Kahekili from his house to the canoe in a haole coffin, oiled and varnished and new. From Wordnik.com. [THE BONES OF KAHEKILI] Reference
All of our women and girls must work as servants with haole families, for that will feed the women and also give us money. From Wordnik.com. [Hawaii]
He spoke of how his haole grandparents saw the islands as "the New Frontier", a place where they could still reach the American dream. From Wordnik.com. [Jeff Chang: Obama Comes Home] Reference
Europe and America must start to visit every haole store tomorrow, begging for supplies on easy credit so that they can open new stores. From Wordnik.com. [Hawaii]
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