I wanted to go deeper into this article than just picking out a picture. I looked at so many videos of the real Hawaii and it was shocking to see how my perception is completely wrong. The video above shows the effects on the Hawaiin's from America. I connected it to the article because it is a pure example of the truth, and NOT fantasy. I related the article to this image because this is one of many postcards from the 1930's that developed the American perception of Hawaii. The typical Hula girl with lays, grass skirt, banjo, and Aloha, is showing the sterotyped image of the Hawaiin girl. Vercoe talks about how the media has mistakenly made our veiw of Hawaii. There is another part we don't know. The example of Post-Colonism really plays in to this article. After the Europeans took over, it lead to poverty and death. However Americans do not see that, they see the TOURIST part. It makes me think about how unapprecative and masked this country really is. The article goes a lot deeper than just soldiers being in the pacific in WWII,and the falseness of a image of the Hula girl, it tells the story of how "what you see, may not always be what you get."
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