00:00How did you feel when the shaka started going global?
00:10Wherever I go, I would tell people where it came from because nobody knows.
00:15If you're not familiar, you don't know.
00:19They don't know that the shaka-san, because he lost his fingers.
00:23They think that he's bending his finger like this.
00:26Uncle, what's the first time you heard the word shaka?
00:50The shaka sign is a symbol for all people.
00:54But I love the fact that its birth is here in Hawai'i.
00:57Of course, we knew it came from here, but how? How?
01:00Lippie Espenda standing up at the corner going,
01:03Hey, Lippie Espenda!
01:06He go up to the camera and he say,
01:08Shaka, brother. That's the Oshaka.
01:11All over the island, kids played marbles.
01:14We didn't know about the shaka, and we're doing it all the time.
01:17It was slowly moving from town to town, and then it was island-wide, state-wide, and then it traveled.
01:34We became so commercialized.
01:37Shaka, brother!
01:38Now they're putting them all together.
01:40Who wove that lay together and put them into one?
01:44But the wave, there's no question.
01:47He would wave to us like this.
01:50So all us kids do that?
01:51That's how he got catchy.
01:53The woman used to say aloha.
01:55He used to go like this.
01:56Aloha!
01:58How is it that a little speck on Mother Earth has so much influence throughout the world?
02:04Just like these islands were, the Shaka sign was born and bred out of the ocean.
02:09The story is a lot richer and fuller than just the Shaka.
02:14When something amazing happens and you're born and raised in Hawaii, that's the reflex that you do.
02:18The Shaka sign is tremendously important. It's an extension, in my mind, of the aloha spirit.
02:25Hawaii and the Shaka has a lot to share. The world should take notice.
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