How we form Empire-Aloha

           Emma Stone in the move, Aloha was greatly scrutinized for her role as an Asian/Hawaiian american due to her clear lack of any of the actual descent. The entire cast was very poorly represented in Hawaiian descent.  It became this idea that the actress herself, along with the entire cast, "whitewashed" the movie. People and natives of Hawaii lashed out at the film for the fact that Caucasians only make up 30% of Hawaii but yet in this movie viewers would have thought it was nearly 99%.  Not only has this "whitewash" casting been an issue in this film but it has come from a long line of others; The Descandants, 50 First Dates, and even Pearl Harbour. This movie has created a false sense of "empire" within Hawaii which directly changes the views of Americans who majorly support cinema such as this. Aloha has misrepresented the culture of Hawaii and simplifies a word that's rich with meaning.
         That being said, this controversy over not only Emma Stone's badly cast role but the movie's entirety directly correlates to a lot of what Kaplan emphasizes in Chapter 4. For example, she best explains the idea of "whitewashing" (an updated term for movies) or whiteness dominating the empire on page 138. Kaplan writes, "It would be historically inaccurate and theoretically simplistic to collapse the relations of the imperial United States to Filipinos, Cubans, Puerto Ricans, Hawaiians, and African Americans into a monolithic model of colonized and colonizer. Such a model not only assumes a false coherence in the identity of the colonizer, but also ignores the historical and global differences among colonized subjects and their relation to empire. " By misdirecting the true identity of the people and where they have come from it changes the connection and takes it further from the understanding of an empire. Just as Kaplan has stressed this in her stories, and just as we can see white-male dominance in war and the "double standard" for black men. We can also see it in Hollywood cinema just like Aloha that has wrongly interpreted the culture of Native Hawaiians.