Early in my working life I spent several years working with a born Hawaiian, his mom with Chinese ancestry, a Polynesian dad, and a Portugese wife. He was much from the oral Hawaiian tradition and talkative, so later when I spoke about Hawaii, people asked me if I had grown up there. No, just a fairly good listener. I have lived on the Hawaiian chain for eight months, but on the far far distant island of Midway, as far from Honolulu as Omaha is from New York City. Welcome aboard. Also, I have a high school friend who retired to Hawaii, Kihei.