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  • Haole is a Hawaiian word, which originally meant stranger, visitor, now used almost exclusively for white, "Caucasian" (isn't that weird, that white skins are supposed to come from the Black Sea?)

    A Modest Proposal 2008

  • I truly think that there are some people that are too sensitive to anything that suggests personal being, such as Haole, Spick, Jap, Jew, Ayatollah, etc.

    Hawaii Reporter 2009

  • Ever since “Kill Haole Day” activities were designated as a possible “hate crime,” Hawaiians have become a bit more sensitive to the idea of being charged as being racially biased or discriminatory.

    Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Wow, I Have Never Been Able To Play the “Oppressed Minority” Card Before 2009

  • Classmates called me “Haole” and “stupid round eye.”

    Chicken Soup for the Soul: Thanks Dad Jack Canfield 2011

  • Classmates called me “Haole” and “stupid round eye.”

    Chicken Soup for the Soul: Thanks Dad Jack Canfield 2011

  • So they're stuck in this van driving down the coast along the island under the stars with the lights out in case there's Haole out surfing at night, with the windows down, real slow.

    i've been down harder Nicolle Elizabeth 2009

  • Kailua itself has a large white population, and is known among locals as Haole Town; haole means either "foreign born" or "white ghost" or "soul less," depending on whom you consult for a definition.

    Time for Ono Kine Grindz...& The Difference Between Haole and Kama'aina Eddie Gehman Kohan 2008

  • Kailua itself has a large white population, and is known among locals as Haole Town; haole means either "foreign born" or "white ghost" or "soul less," depending on whom you consult for a definition.

    Archive 2008-12-20 Eddie Gehman Kohan 2008

  • The long name of Sandwich Islanders is dropped, and they are called by the whites, all over the Pacific ocean, “Kanakas, ” from a word in their own language which they apply to themselves, and to all South Sea Islanders, in distinction from whites, whom they call “Haole.

    Chapter XIX. The Sandwich Islanders-Hide-Curing-Wood-Cutting-Rattle-Snakes-New-Comers 1909

  • At the word, the young Haole of Beritania Street reeled against the wall.

    Island Nights' Entertainments Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

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