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"Barack Obama: World's Most Ambitious Hawaiian?"

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Anonymous soc said...

Dick Parsons, Chairman of Time Warner, although not raised in Hawaii, went to college there for four years. His Mom is Chinese, maybe that was why he went there from Bed-Sty?

2/3/07, 2:27 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Could the presence of a massive tourism industry and its abundant jobs be a factor? There might be less on an incentive to take risks with new ventures.

Peter

2/3/07, 11:43 AM

Blogger Steve Sailer said...

Peter, right, that makes sense. I imagine hyper-ambitious locals in Hawaii tend to go into real estate development.

2/3/07, 3:16 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

The cost of living/business and taxes in hawaii make it a lousy place to begin a startup.

Hawaii did have one interesting tech venture of note - Honolulu was where much of computer animation for the Final Fantasy movie was programmed. The programming team was half Japanese , half American, so Hawaii was a good compromise culturally and timezonewise.

For the most part though, amibitious go-getters tend to leave Hawaii for the mainland (LA, Vegas) - unless of course they come from old-money families of the sort that send their kids to Punahou.

2/3/07, 6:59 PM

Anonymous Lao Ren Cha said...

"Hawaiian" is used only to refer to people of Hawaiian ancestry, which Barack most definitely is not.

Non-Hawaiians who are born and/or raised in Hawaii, or who relocate to Hawaii, are never referred to as "Hawaiian," but only as "Hawaii residents" or people "from Hawaii," etc. If they're of mixed ancestry (as many people in Hawaii are) and don't look haole (Caucasian), the catch-all term is "local."

But when someone is called "Hawaiian" it's because they are, genetically.

2/3/07, 9:33 PM

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