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Originally Posted by newboldphilly
speaking of which - i thought Perth held title to "most isolated big city" in el mundo ?? anyone?
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Hi
Did some quick googling... according to
west-oz.com
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Perth is situated on the west coast of the Australian continent in south-west Western Australia and faces west to the Indian Ocean. Adelaide, in South Australia is roughly 2500km away, making Perth the second most isolated capital city in the world after Honolulu, Hawaii
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I guess it's safe to call Perth the most isolated city of over a 1 million people in the world
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Originally Posted by citizensf
It's definitely a different type of diversity from the mainland. Having been born and raised on Oahu, it was culture shock when I went to L.A. for school. Latinos, African Americans and hell, even South Asians were all pretty foreign to me having grown up in the islands where diversity is a lot of east asians, southeast asians and polynesians mixed with caucasians.
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Totally agree with you. I think for me (being non-caucasian) what struck me most about O'ahu is how little the caucasian population is here -- only about 1 in 5 (not counting the tourists, of course.)
It's an interesting and unique mix of people, and though the racial diversity of the population isn't as much as the mainland, I think that a far greater mix of cultures is more readily available, accessible, and understood here in Hawaii. There is far greater racial mixing in Hawaii which I think goes to show how more progressive race relations are here.
On a personal note, it's a refreshing feeling not being immediately labeled either Mexican, Puerto Rican or "misc. brown guy" for once. Most people think I'm a curious bi-racial combination (technically true I guess) -- or as my friends call me "da kinedian." Though my trying to explain that I'm of Indian ethnicity invariably runs the conversation into a tree ("like Apache brah?") Especially so when I try to explain that I'm American of Caribbean East Indian (Trinidadian) descent (i.e. an East-Indian-West-Indian Indian-American)
In bars now I just say "Hindu Jamaican," and that seems to work well enough.
While some of my "haole" friends whine about how they're too chicken to go to places like Waianae at night, I've never had any problems or anything with native Hawaiians -- (in one amusing (to me anyway) incident, a bunch of Samoans unloaded 40 lbs of garbage in a drive-by-dumping on H-2 into my friends new convertible
) In all seriousness, it's my experience that they're are bar none the nicest people on earth. I tell my friends now you know how I feel if I have to drive rural America at night.
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This last trip the big deal was that new supermarket in Kapahulu that everyone was raving about. My mom was so happy that there was a supermarket "just like the ones on the mainland" :-P
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Honolulu and Waikiki are exploding. I was looking at pics from a few years ago, and it looks nothing like it does now
edit- here's a pic I took today, for your nostalga's sake
Cheers,
Jai