The French government wanted to speed things up with gender work force equality by artificially requiring more women hiring a few years back. Hey, we could do the same for the Hawaiian language and culture. We could make some extreme requirements for the Hawaiian language and culture for the next few years to make up for the “mistake” we made in the last century. Very clever.
We need Reinstatement of the Hawaiian Monarchy, not as a governing body but as a ceremonial body similar to the monarchy of England, Japan, Denmark. They don’t necessary needs to have any political power, but will have greater spiritual and cultural influence over the people. They become the symbol of the Hawaiian Kingdom.
We need to increase the Hawaiian language with artificial mean. First we must recognize the state as a bilingual state – English and Hawaiian. All state and county government employees must receive 4 semester of college level Hawaiian Language Study. All state documents must accompany by Hawaiian translation or English translation. For all “made in Hawaii” participants, all packaging must be bilingual. Public school must teach 10% of curriculum in Hawaiian. Year 2020 will be the first class to graduate under the bilingual requirement where students graduated would be able to have an intellectual communicate in both Hawaiian and English. Creating this initial artificial need of the Hawaiian Language is to offset the decrease Hawaiian Language speakers in the past one hundred year. This bilingual system can be easily learned from other countries such as Tahiti (French/English), American Samoan (Samoan/English), Canada (English/French), Macau (Cantonese/Portuguese), and Hong Kong (Cantonese/English). Artificial requirement need to be adjusted and review every three years and eventually lifted when it’s purpose is served.
We need to increase the need for native plants by artificial mean. All new construction projects must provide 50% of native plant specie in their plant pallete. All public street trees must be native species such as koa, ohia, koa, kou, akia and nau etc. . Home depot, Star Garden and other nursery are required to have 10% of their plant inventory to be native. The more people are in touch with the native plants, the more we learn to appreciate them. Creating this initial artificial need of the Hawaiian native plants is to offset the decrease in Hawaiian Native plants in the past one hundred year. Artificial requirement need to be adjusted and review every three years and eventually lifted when it’s purpose is served.
We need Hawaiian mythical drama or war epic on TV. Hawaiian mythology would draw similar audience like those historical drama produced in India, Hong Kong, Korea and Japan.
