{"id":6234,"date":"2017-02-02T09:25:31","date_gmt":"2017-02-02T17:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/larryeifert.com\/?p=6234"},"modified":"2023-11-23T12:30:48","modified_gmt":"2023-11-23T20:30:48","slug":"kauai-asian-cemetery-a-cautionary-tale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/2017\/02\/kauai-asian-cemetery-a-cautionary-tale\/","title":{"rendered":"Kauai Asian Cemetery \u2013 A Cautionary Tale"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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We just returned from a little winter field trip to warm up on Kauai. I really cannot remember when I posted anything other than my art on this blog, years probably, but these photos were taken while we watched astonishing events unfolding on the Mainland, and finding this little abandoned cemetery seems to tie it together \u2013 and not in a good way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is a beautiful place, but we quickly realized the stones told a tragic story. No stones in the \u2018old\u2019 cemetery section dated past 1942, the date when we, America, sent 120,000 Japanese to prison for just being Japanese, and few returned to their original homes after that madness was over. These are abandoned graves, meaning people are still here but the families don\u2019t come to remember grand-dad\u2019s fishing stories, or grand-mother\u2019s wonderful meals. No one comes to spruce up the ground, bring flowers occasionally \u2013 it\u2019s just abandoned. I\u2019ve never thought that our actions against people might, in fact, reverberate to past generations.<\/p>\n\n\n

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And now, today, what are we doing? The same thing? It seems our tolerance for other cultures, different people, different ways has vanished. This big bronze sculpture is in Kaloa Town, a few miles to the east. This giant piece of art commemorates the truly joyful multiculturalism that was spawned as Hawaii developed. To meet labor demands, the cane companies went to Asia and brought in thousands of workers, the basis of Hawaii\u2019s diverse and harmonious culture today. These people had to get along. And they get along now, and that\u2019s the point. If we don\u2019t learn to get along,  we are doomed to the vastly bigger threat of Climate Change that will probably finish us off as a civilization.<\/p>\n\n\n

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My thought: Don\u2019t give up on Facebook, or that \u2018other-race\u2019 family down the street. Walk down, bang on the door and ask them how they are. Make a point of talking to people that aren\u2019t like you in the grocery store. You might learn things aren\u2019t as bad as we\u2019re told they are!<\/p>\n\n\n

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Thanks for reading this week.
Larry Eifert<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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