What Different Relationships to Hawaiian Culture Give Rise to the Conflict between Hawaiians and the Tourism Industry?

Sammanfattning: There is a conflict between native Hawaiians and the local tourism industry where tourism is pointed out as the cause of deterioration of the traditional Hawaiian culture. This definition of the conflict fails to connect fragmentation in today's society with the well-documented signs of disintegration that started already before tourism arrived. The Hawaiian cultural identity suffered under the eras of the sugar, pineapple, and defense industries as well as under tourism. This indicates that the underlying cause of deterioration is not industrial activity per se but should rather be seen as the consequence of the societal fragmentation that is economic, political, as well as social in its nature. Although Hawaiians differ in what ideology they embrace in response to fragmentation and tourism, namely sustainable tourism, isolationism, or disengagement in cultural issues, each distinctive ideology can be explained in the context of the western world system subjugating the Hawaiian regional system, but not from tourism acting as a force in itself.