Healani really gets to the substantive material and political connections between the abusive nature of cultural exploitation and American entertainment. Mostly, though, as a Hawaiian who is concerned with how we as a people are (mis)represented in mass media and at the same time influenced by it, she articulates something profound about the dangers of us and our world view being narrated by haole people who are only here to profit off of us: "On the big screen, indigenous Hawaiian children will get to see a brown-skinned Maui and laugh at his antics in a dumbed-down comedic style that is distinctly American in the way it subliminally consigns young Hawaiian men to buffoonery." Movie events, especially 3-D cartoons, are seductive, particularly to children. Hopefully Hawaiians will understand that they and their Pacific cousins are being used by Disney the same way our land is exploited by the tourism industry (Aulani Resort) for others to get rich and be entertained... at our expense.