Originally Posted by
AlohaFlyer
Not at all.. I am talking about how Hawaiian hires. I am a haole and my wife is polynesian... I can tell you in my experience in the last 20 years of living in the islands that haole is not a name that is normally considered offensive by anyone. We use it all the time at home. I would even say that it is even more of a term of endearment in my experience.
Thanks for clearing that up... No worries either. My wife uses endearing terms like that for me all the time too -- just yesterday she called me Einstein AND genius in the same sentence!!