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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] I have a family member who works at a place like the white lotus. It’s a pretty good job compared to others at his education level snd especially in the location. It’s interesting that dcumers are largely viewing the hotel jobs as akin to toiling in the salt mines or inherently very demeaning. My family member would like to make more of course but it’s genuinely a pretty good job he enjoys and is glad to have. [/quote]

What’s the background of your family member? For Kai’s character the job is demeaning. The government stole his family’s ancestral land and he’s working a crappy job on his own land.[/quote]

It's not really demeaning though. He might feel some internal conflict - as he expresses to Paula - but he seems to feel like it's a pretty good job, worth holding onto. Then she whispers in his ear...[/quote]

Yes it is, did you purposely ignore the part about his family’s land being stolen? He’s working this job bc his family doesn’t have a lot of money and he has to support himself somehow, anyone would feel demeaned and maybe even traumatized by working a low wage service job on land they rightfully own. This, by the way, is similar to the real stories of many native Hawaiians, similar to Native Americans here. Are you really this clueless?[/quote]

Dude. First of all, I used to live in Micronesia - so I am pretty well aware of the situation in the islands and colonialism. Second of all, his family's land was taken well before he was born - he was not forced out of his home. That's a story he tells because it's part of his family lore and history. He is not going to sue to get it back, even with those bracelets. "He" never owned that land - and we saw no evidence that he was "traumatized" working at the hotel, up until Paula convinced him to rob one of the guests. Third of all - wow, you think by definition working in the service industry is demeaning and traumatic?! [/quote]

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