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Our story can be like some, but not like many. Hubby’s the haole, I’m the Chinese/Hawaiian wife. He’s lived in O’ahu for almost twenty years, while I’ve lived for only 5. He uses chopsticks, I can’t. He can make spam musubi – I can’t. I can speak Spanish, and he can speak [...] Dear Haole Club, I am writing to you from my home in northern Japan, where it is cold and everything is white with snow. As we know, in a traditional anglo-saxon family, Christmas is the biggest day of the year and it is a time for being generous to each other. Hopefully that generosity lives on throughout [...] My Haole husband is actually part Hawaiian and grew up in Hawaii just like I did. BUT while he loves rice and expects it every meal except when we eat spaghetti, he butters his rice! Yuck! Unfortunately, as hard as I tried to teach our Hapa kids the “right” way to eat rice, they too [...] White husband and chinese Wife, My wife and I went out to go do some shopping. We never thought about what we looked like when we went out with each, we just to do what we needed to do for that day. We came up on two eldly woman , as we aproached they both [...] I’m a native of Britain who has lived in numerous countries, (Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and the U.S.) and I’m also married to a Filipino man. I won’t lie. It has been difficult being married to one another because we come from different cultures, but we’re making it work for us and [...] My Chinese parents speak to their dog, Mimi, in Chinese. After a month of marriage, my Italian husband was asked by a co-worker if he’s learned any of the Chinese language from spending time with his in-laws. He thought for a minute and said, “Mimi…lai!” Katherine Chhor Cocchiaro After being single and “playing the field” for several years, I informed my mother I was marrying a Japanese girl, who is/was an exchange student at the local University. Mom said “Japanese girls are pretty when they are young, but when they age, they really fall apart. Are you sure?” We’re going on 15 years [...] My funny thing was forcing hubby to sit on the floor and eat pupu style!! Today, we make our other haole friends do the same (mostly east coasters since he’s from Jersey and they are mostly from Boston). Consdiering how tall these haoles are, was funny seeing them trying to get comfy. Not only [...] After 19 years of marriage, most of them in living in Hawaii and 5 of them in Japan, my haole hubby was told by one of my local Japanese friends, “After all these years, you not haole anymore, brah. Now you portagee!” Allyn Tabata |
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