Sublime

As ambassadors of aloha, Hawaiian women have been susceptible to the eroticization of their bodies and the insistent commodification of their aloha.

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Hawaiians' authenticity as an autochthonous people was and is often tied to their relationship to land and ocean.

Illegibility was a political act.

Because of her nation’s colonial history, Cha treats language as both the wound and the instrument that wounds; hers is a language that conceals rather than reveals identity.

Language replacement always is accompanied by revised self–perceptions, a restructuring of the cultural classifications within which the self is defined and reproduced. Negative evaluations associated with the dying language lead to a descending series of reclassifications by succeeding generations, until no one wants to speak like Grandpa any more

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providing a forum for public discourse.

The primacy of language as a cue helps us understand why language policies can change behavior.