Pidgin: The Voice of Hawai'i

Oct 18, 2009

0h 57m

★ 6.0

Overview

What if you are made to feel ashamed when you speak your "mother tongue" or ridiculed because of your accent? "Pidgin: The Voice of Hawai'i" addresses these questions through its lively examination of Pidgin - the language spoken by over half of Hawai'i's people.

Genres

Documentary

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Cast

Kanalu Young

Lee Tonouchi

Teresa Lau

Narrator

Keith Kashiwada

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