In the article “Want to be less racist? Move to Hawaii” by Moises Velasquez-Manoff, the author shares the interesting perspective on race of the Hawaiian residents. He describes how many of the people of Hawaii have mixed backgrounds from multiple races and cultures and how it’s become completely normal there. The people don’t typically use race and appearances to make assumptions about others, helping to prove that racism and stereotyping is a learnt behavior, rather than instinctual. A lot of this comes from the large population of people of mixed races in Hawaii, many of which have several different racial backgrounds. This results in a difficulty of categorizing people based off race, which Velasquez-Manoff realized during his time in Hawaii. He recalls a time when he tried this categorization but, as he states, “quickly realized the assumption underlying my fieldwork was fatally flawed. Here I was trying to discern ancestry, but how was I to know anyone’s background just by looking, particularly in a place where people were so mixed? (Velasquez Manoff). He eventually came to the realization of how different Hawaii views race than the states of the Lower 48 and while they “see” race, they don’t use it as a defining factor of a person to make assumptions or categorize them. This article showed many great examples of behaviors of stereotyping and racism and how they aren’t ingrained in our minds, but in our society.