However, the number of Hawaiians going on to tertiary education in the Aloha State is still disproportionately low. Yet not enough are going on with their education. There are those who have gone on with a university education and have lit the way for the younger generations to follow in their footsteps. There are the doctors, lawyers and academics among our people who have shown the way and proved that Hawaiians are not the lazy or stupid people that some would suggest. Hawaiian culture has come a long way since the Renaissance - it is actively sought and practiced with open and naked enthusiasm.
Language classes are very popular as is the art of hula and the sport of canoe-racing.
Communities have been disrupted, traditional diets replaced by the junk food chic that is synonymous with America. Most damaging of all is what some call cultural bastardization and others cultural prostitution. It is portrayed with sexual imagery and glamorized in bastardized portrayals of Hawaiian culture. On Being Hawaiian To be Hawaiian is to know what it means to be demeaned, degraded and dehumanized. We have been picked apart and dissected by anthropologists and archaeologists who pick among the bones of our ancestors like grave robbers.