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Hawaiian Culture Research Paper

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Behind The Scenes of Hawaiian Culture What makes you who you are? Is it the way you walk, or the way you greet others, or the way you identify yourself? The way we all perceive ourselves to be is unique. We are all uniquely different, and the way we are able to surrounded by a diverse environment, or the way we are all diverse and are able to find the beauty in one another's culture, is what makes it so important. My family are like branches on a tree, we all grow in different directions, at different paces but our roots will always run deep. Family will always come first to me, above all else; coming from a home with no father, the only father figure i had was my grandfather, to me family is so important because it is who we come from. Family …show more content…

Some of the most common Hawaiian delicacies are kalua pig, laulau, lomi salmon, squid luau, chicken long rice, manapua and oen most common dessert that myself and many other people like to eat are malasadas. Hawaiian cuisine is important to me because as a child i grew up eating and cooking these foods in my kitchen with my family, and still to this day continue to do so. Gradually, as i got older and was able to start cooking for myself, i began to start bonding with my family even more as we cooked in the kitchen together. When i attended field trips in middle school or elementary, my mom and i would always make musubis with shoyu sugar spam and chicken katsu; cooking with my mom taught me that if you are able to make homemade meals with your family, don't miss out on the opportunity to go and buy ready made food from the store that isn't made with the same as when you cook with your family, i mean what's the fun in that? In the kitchen before my grandfather passed away, my mother, and i and my grandfather created our spin on banana bread, but instead of making it with banana, we made it with mango. Mango bread. My house is surrounded by mango trees and every once in awhile our family members from all around would stop by to pick mangos and pink plumeria flowers to create leis. We decided to create our own mango bread as we were inspired by the amount mangos that were left after my family raided our trees. We …show more content…

“You’re so niele!” or “Open your pepeau!” meaning you're so nosy and you need to open your ears and listen up. Hawaiian language is very important to me because it is the language of our ancestors and those who walked the land long before we did. When i was about nine years old, my mom gave me a book full of Hawaiian words and phrases and pronunciations and the definiton of them. I started to read the book full of the phrases or sentences and i made note cards and wrote the phrases that were labeled as level one to learning hawaiian, i practiced everyday and i tried my best to keep up with it. I desperately wanted to learn Hawaiian that i had asked my mom if i could move to Ke Kula O Ehunuikaimalino which is a hawaiian emerge school just below the high school, my mom had tried to transfer me but i was put onto a waiting list. I felt strongly about my hawaiian language and it's so important to me because when we go to family parties, we would always bless our food with a pule; a prayer. Or when our middle school went onto field trips we sang our oli, to show who we are and how strongly we feel about it. My language is so important because without it, who would we be? What story would we tell from our ancestors without our

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