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Scholars have emphasized Hawaiʻi’s role as a model of inter-cultural and inter-racial relations that should be emulated. You can see this in the example of the assigned reading by Andrew
Lind (Chapter 1 of Hawaii’s People, 1955). These qualities of Hawaiʻi have been celebrated.
Jonathan Okamura, however, has been a leading critic this view of Hawaiʻi as a “Multicultural
Model” (or a model of multiculturalism). Please carefully review the critique he presents in his chapter “the Illusion of Paradise” (1998).
Draw upon at least four different assigned readings (in addition to the Okamura chapter) related to at least two different “ethnic/racialized” groups to assess Okamura’s arguments. Do the experiences of those groups support Okamura’s arguments? How? Give specific examples. Or do the experiences of those groups stand at odds with his arguments? How? Give specific examples.