Social Cohesion and Conflict
Hawai‘i has been called a “laboratory of race relations” based on its carefully cultivated image as a place where people of different cultures have historically lived together and “fused.”[1] This image has a certain amount of validity when Hawaii’s racial “fusion” is contrasted to that found in most of the continental United States. For Native Hawaiians,[2] the fusion has been forced at times and cultural domination is a reality etched in daily existence. In 1933, one scholar observed:
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