Barack Obama

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Obama, Hawaiian style

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"Obama said as much during his campaign. “I do think that the multicultural nature of Hawaii helped teach me how to appreciate different cultures and navigate different cultures, out of necessity,” he told U.S. News and World Report, adding that the place also has “a cultural bias toward courtesy and trying to work through problems in a way that makes everybody feel like they’re being listened to. And I think that reflects itself in my personality as well as my political style.”

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"Writing in The New Republic, veteran Washington journalist E.J. Dionne, Jr. cited that stance as evidence, as a senior Obama advisor told him, that Obama is a “devout non-ideologue.” That’s one way of putting it, surely. But Sally-Jo Bowman, the Hawaiian-born author of The Heart of Being Hawaiian, believes it reflects something else: ho`oponopono, a traditional Hawaiian family counseling technique whereupon participants seek to solve problems not by apportioning blame, but by “making right” relations that have gone awry. For Bowman, it’s one of many examples of how the culture of the Hawaiian Islands informs Obama’s approach to politics. “Hawaiians are affiliative; we really want to bond with people,” says Bowman. “Every time I see Obama, he’s touching people, connecting. That’s island all the way.”

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