Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 14, Number 5, 1 May 1997 — Panel [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Panel

"If you're going to write about Hawai'i with any depth or passion you have to write with your heart," Ariyoshi said. The panelists discussed cultural sensitivity in writing. The problem of a writer's laek of cultural understanding sometimes resulting in misleading or offending readers was discussed. "The writer might make a leap of logic in the wrong plaee," Ariyoshi said. Some issues and news to Hawai'i residents may not be of interest to the rest of the world, Krauss said. He has a hard time syndicating his eolumn to other papers because it's too localized, he said. The issue of exploitation is a eonstant eoneem to writers on the panel.

Krauss has written travel guides about his favorite spots off the beaten track, only to find them abused in the long run. "We eaeh in our own way have to reahze we live in a contradiction," Krauss said. Hartwell, a former writer for the Honolulu Advertiser, has written a book, "Nā Mamo - Hawaiian People Today." He says the book allows him to write in depth on the cultural lifestyles of Hawai'i's people. Newspaper format wasn't long enough to tell the stories he wanted to tell, Hartwell said. Audience questions and comments reflected a desire to see more Hawaiian authors in the daily papers and on the bookstore shelves to represent the Hawaiian perspective.

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(From left to right) Charles Ka'upu and Kalani English (sovereignty panel facilitators), Francis Kamakawiwa'ole, Mililani Trask, Ku'ulei Minehew, Kina'u Kamali'i and Moanalihe Uweko'olani.