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What was the deal with Turtle?


I mean, he didn't look Hawaiian at all, yet he was talking so much pidgin English it was insane. Sounded really fake coming from him also.

If they were going to have someone speaking pidgin, shouldn't it have been someone who actually knew it? And maybe looked local?

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I don't think he was supposed to look Hawaiian.. he was a white man who had obviously spent a lot of time there and just adopted the local dialect.


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If you've even been to Hawaii there are all races and ethnicities there, they actually let white people live there too.

"Doesn't look Hawaiian."

Does every American look white?

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It all kind of fell in to place but the book is nothing liek the movie.

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