For better or worse Local Japanese rule the DOE and tend to hire their peers, consciously or not. To be fair as a group, I think they do a pretty good job. There is an underclass of white males that are placed in hard to fill positions...or are just not hired despite ability. Haoles are considered the outsiders and students here strongly avoid identifying themselves as haole, even when so many are at least part haole or 100% Portuguese. Every single major group in Hawaii has a portion or haole blood except the Japanese and a few Chinese, but identifying that way is not the way to get ahead. Japan itself is a great country that has avoided foreign contact and immigrants for centuries to present. Japan is a great country but at the same time they are clearly very racist by our definition of the word. Can "reverse racism" happen? Yes, equality is a hard principle to uphold. It does not happen naturally and the DOE is a great example of that. Equal opportunity employer? nah. I know wah wah