That's the biggest warning I used to get, before I moved here, from haole friends who had lived here. There was actually racial prejudice here, against us, the supreme race, the wonderful ones, the sacred whiteskins. I mean it was made to sound as though I might get thrown into jail for breathing. Well, no, actually. What this is, is what it looks like when life gets a little more fair.
Most places there's a one-word curse for everybody but haoles.
Here, we get one too. Nobody gets singled out as specially good or specially bad by the whole of society. Everybody comes in for a little dissing from all the other racial or ethnic groups, and since there's no clear majority, what that means is that it's pretty darn evenly spread around. I'm real willing to carry my share, if it helps keep someone else from having to shoulder it all. Sometimes that's the closest to fair we humans can manage.