A native Hawaiian man can sit on a spot at the beach and feel the ocean and the wind and sky and sense their ancestors there in that place with them, and know that they must care for the place so that their descendants can also experience these things.
A Western man will sit in the exact same place and say: “How can I make this work for me?”
(my paraphrase)
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Love it. Very telling. Yet, I am of Irish descent, and I sit in the same spot and think, "How can I fit in here" "How can I support the aina".
Maybe the more accurate way to put it would be: the western side of us...which we need to get under control.
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