text: With specific commentary to the Native Hawaiian caucus, her actions and subsequent obfuscation and half-hearted tepid apology, reflect an antithesis to the values of most any native culture--that is to say-- humility.
  
  For Native Hawaiians, this is embodied by ha'a ha'a. Ha‘aha‘a is the value of humility.
  
  Ha‘aha‘a teaches us to groom our character with a humility stemming from the utmost of respect for others.Summarilly, it promotes the self, but only with modestly and great measurement, while humbly being open to growth learned from others.
  
  Ha‘aha‘a helps us understand that no individual is bigger than the whole. Moreover, it gives great reflection and deference to all the people and actions  who have walked before you and the attendant sacrifices they have made. 
  
  E kala mai, but her actions are all about her and border on the exercise of sulfurous hubris that comes when the self it at the primacy of the value system. From a cultural system, not very Hawaiian at all...