Pidgin: Dialect Of English Spoken On The Hawaiian Islands

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the language spoken at home. The
other people of the islands look at this dialect as a sign of a poor education
and up-bringing. My mother did not want her son associated with such a group of
individuals.
When I started school at Maunawili School and began to pick up Pidgin
and start to speak it at home she took it upon herself to change me. At this
time she was teaching sixth grade at Keolu Elementary. She saw how her kids
could not speak proper English, only Pidgin. Many of them also wrote in Pidgin,
something I had begun to do. My mother saw this behavior and forced me to
change. My parents put me in Punahou School, one of the best private schools in
the nation, to facilitate this change. It may seem that she did not want me to
grow up proud of my Hawaiian heritage, but that is far from the truth. She
taught me to respect the culture for its beautiful aspects, the hula, and the
Hawaiian Language. My father taught me about the ain'a (land). He showed me
how the ...

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