The negative response against haoles isn't a personal or racial matter to Hawaiians, but a negative response to Western imperialism and American expansionism in Hawaii and the Pacific instigated by President William McKinley and then Vice President Theodore Roosevelt during 1898.

One will feel the same negative response from the first people in Cuba, Puerto Rico, Philippines, Nicaragua, Honduras, Vietnam, Iran, Guatemala, Chile, Grenada, Panama, Afghanistan and Iraq -- all of which were invaded by the U.S. military between 1893 and 2003.

Tourists and settlers give the same response when confronted with the negative attitude against colonization: We weren't there during 1898, so why blame us? The fact is that the international tourism industry is another form of Western imperialism and American expansionism.