"Ayeyeyeye Yai Yai...No Dineroooooo...Soy Pobreeeeee" - Peter Dagampat Ph.D.
You'll often hear me saying the above words in public (as I walk down the street or stroll through the aisles at the grocery store or roam about the library, etc.). I think these Spanish words that I often speak led a 55+-year-old, female, Chinese librarian named Julie* to spontaneously say "NOT AT ALL...YOU HAVE NO MONEY" as I was speaking to her in the room (Social Science & Philosophy) at the top right-hand corner of the above photo today (04/22/26) around noon. I don't think the Chink believes that my father was relatively wealthy and of high status and that I benefited from his relative wealth and status by living a relatively privileged life for the first 30+ years of my life. Nor do I believe that she believes that all of my older siblings make 6 figures.
In fact, I think this tweet has led her to believe that my sister Tina (the mother of Jordan) was a FAT, average, stay-at-home, soccer mom and not the executive that I've described her as. Or maybe the Chink doesn't want to admit that I come from a genetically superior, well-to-do family. What a shame.
*I'll attempt to take a picture of the Chink later this week!
**This link has led both males and females that I interact with to say, "you're gay?" and "you're bi [bisexual]?". For instance, I placed a call to this business https://www.instagram.com/kaimukidentalgroup/ yesterday (04/22/26) at about 9:30 AM (to ensure that it wasn't black owned) and the 50-60-year-old female, Japanese receptionist that answered said under her breath, "you're black?...you're bisexual?" My older brothers, like my father, don't like FAGGOTS. I tolerate them (as long as they don't push their HOMOSEXUALITY agenda on me) because I have a scientific understanding of their sexual orientation.
Shortly, I'll tell you all about a Pinole that I played against at this gym last night (not the guy* picture above, rather another Pinole; the one pictured above is a stand-in for him). The Pinole I speak of is a lanky, 6'-6'1, and like most Pinoles, has above average athleticism (has good quickness, has good leaping ability, has good eye-hand coordination). I've previously played with and against this Pinole (I've forgotten his name), so he's seen me play (I typically don't play to the best of my ability against inferior players), but I think this gave him the WRONG IDEA because as we were playing last night (04/23/26 at about 7:30 PM) the Pinole said, "you read my mind...you weren't that G00D**...you're White [your father, mother, and siblings are White]?...
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The guy pictured above is named Jeremy. Jeremy is an above average basketball player. Jeremy handles the ball at an above average level, Jeremy passes the ball at an above average level, Jeremy shoots the ball at an above average level, etc. In fact, Jeremy outplayed me last time we went head-to-head, which was in early 2024!
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I don't believe that the Pinole believes that I've held my own/outplayed the list of former PBA players below in pickup games.
Nor does he believe that I've held my own/outplayed other lower-level professionals from the Philippines (Bleachers Brew: Kevin White Tries His Luck in the PBL) and collegiate players from the Philippines in tournaments and leagues. The way I played last night (04/23/26 at about 7:30 PM-8:30 PM) didn't help in disabusing him of his misbelief (I couldn't throw a pea in the ocean).
I also think he may be thinking that my brother Gery wasn't as G00D at basketball as I've described him. Gery was a Madman when it came to basketball. He'd psychologically and physically dominate his opponents and he wouldn't leave the court until he was satisfied that all of his opponents knew that he could psychologically and physically dominate them.
NOW, LET'S READ ABOUT A TONGAN MALE IN HIS EARLY 60s FROM TONGA NAMED 'JOHN' ('JOHN' LIKELY ISN'T HIS ACTUAL NAME) IN THE BELOW WRITING.
"Boy [you're not a man and I therefore won't acknowledge you when I see you]...Nerd...missing a tooth.." - A Tongan male in his 60s named 'John' ('John' likely isn't his actual name). I first met and spoke to 'John' in the sauna at this 24 Hour Fitness (Bishop Street) around mid-summer of last year (2025). 'John' is a taller (6'2-6'3), leaner, Tongan, and like most Tongans (and full-blooded Polynesians in general) has a penchant for fibbing (these people tend to lie through their teeth). During our initial conversation, 'John' seemed to have been receptive to what I was saying (we discussed diet, exercise, and Polynesian body type and physiology), but since then he's stopped recognizing me and speaking to me when I encounter him. Why has he had this change of heart? Because he's reading this blog, specifically what I've written about Hawaii (Tongans and Samoans in Hawaii), Hawaiians (modern Hawaiian culture and modern Hawaiian DNA), and Tela Girl and come away thinking "you're immature, you're not a man, you're a little boy with little boy ideas!" Plus, he's read the emails I've sent to the Finau brothers, Uiagalelei brothers, and Mac Schwenke and noticed that none of them have responded to me, so he thinks to himself, "you're a low status, loner that no one knows or respects." Or maybe he's related to the Finaus and is friends with Mac Schwenke and is therefore partial towards them. I don't know, but I think he may be waiting for me to disrespect him so that he can either fight me or have one of his male relatives (maybe a son) fight me.
When I walked past he and Chad as they worked out on a machine this past Thursday (01/16/26) (Chad is a 6'4-6'5. well-built, good looking, nice, white male in his mid-late 50s from Kentucky that's an engineer working on the Skyline Transit System in Hawaii), 'John' bent at the hips, lowered his head and began making a breast stroke motion with his arms, which ostensibly indicated that he was stretching his upper back, but from my perspective, hinted at the fact that he'd like to see me jump in a lake. Like, "jump in a lake, loser!"
Or maybe 'John' was wishing that my Tongan acquaintances would have thrown me into the pool! so that I'd have to swim like Greg Louganis. Maybe 'John' was implying that he considered me a homosexual like Greg Louganis (See Tonga's laws against homosexuality https://antigaylaws.org/regional/pacificoceania/).
UPDATE: I ENCOUNTERED 'JOHN' IN THE MEN'S LOCKERROOM THIS PAST MONDAY (04/20/26) AT ABOUT 8:30 PM. HE WAS SITTING ON A BENCH ACROSS FROM WHITE CHAD FROM KENTUCKY WHO WAS ALSO SITTING ON A BENCH! I SAID HELLO TO THE TWO OF THEM AND THEN ATTEMPTED SMALL TALK. CHAD RESPONDED, BUT 'JOHN' BRUSHED ME OFF AND WAVED ME OFF (DISMISSED ME WITH A FLIPPING, BACK HAND GESTURE). CULTURALLY, 'JOHN' IS VERY MUCH LIKE THE PEOPLE FROM HIS HOME COUNTRY - VERY STATUS CONSCIOUS AND VERY DISMISSIVE TO PEOPLE HE DEEMS BENEATH HIM. READ THE BELOW TWEET.
"The United States is often referred to as a nation of immigrants. But this is not the whole truth...there's a difference between settlers, who bring their own culture with them, and immigrants, who generally adopt their host's culture." a.co/d/6y2gVqQ
Like most Tongans in the U.S., I would consider 'John' is a settler. Culturally, he's very much Tongan.
Have you see the 24-26-year-old, white/Vietnamese girl from New York named Sam that exercises at the 24 Hour Fitness on Bishop St. and King St.? I hadn't seen her at the gym for several months until I saw her yesterday (12/19/25) at about 5:30 PM and guess what? She was showing*. She looked about 6 months pregnant. She's just one of the millions of girls that I could have impregnated but chose not to. (I think she was exercising in preparation for her next baby daddy. Read the below tweet.)
*And Sam made sure that I saw her showing! And by showing her showing to me, Sam was saying, "I'm having a Hawaiian baby with an educated, established Hawaiian (Keoni Souza - Personal Family Lawyer®)", not a Mexican loser like you!"
People tend to feign health motives when they engage in diet or exercise, even though they are really concerned with looking better and improving their chances on the mating market.
In many societies, attaining cultural ideals of physical attractiveness is desirable (e.g., being beautiful), but pursuing physical attractiveness is not (e.g., being vain). How do people address these paradoxical standards?
We argue that people meet the standards to both appear slim and appear to have good values by disguising their true motives for ambiguous actions (i.e., diet, exercise): they project more virtuous health motives to others despite being actually driven by physical appearance motives.
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These results support the notion that people hide their appearance-related health pursuits because they believe it reflects poor values. In masking their effort to look good as an effort to feel good, they may contribute to the staying power of societal expectations of ideal bodies.
