Fanta-Sizing Culture: Italian Soda Pop, Neocolonial Hawai'i and the Global Facialization Machine

Just as none of us is outside or beyond geography, none of us is completely free from the struggle over geography. That struggle is complex and interesting because it is not only about soldiers and cannons but also about ideas, about forms, about images and imaginings. (Said 1994, p. 7) What does the word 'Aloha' evoke for you? What does the scene of women in straw-skirts dancing in a circle suggest to you? What does the sound of a word like 'Humuhumunukunukuapua'a' call to mind?