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My in-laws are Vietnamese-Chinese so I'm painfully aware of how upsetting a perceived loss of face can be.

I would say, though, that there's a big difference between Hawai'i and the Phillipines. The latter is a treaty partner of the US but that's still something less than being territory. (Of course many Hawai'ian people would rather go back to being a sovereign nation but I don't want to veer far off topic.)