In Velasquez-Manoff’s “Is Hawaii’s Racial Harmony A Myth?”, he claim’s that his essay does not offer a coherent whole because he wanted to explore the things that make Hawaii unique without the myths so he could talk about the contradictions. What Manoff wanted to achieve in his essay was that there are many claims and opinions on whether Hawaii is a racist place or not. The essay has contradicted opinions from people saying it’s a happy place to be and people saying that it’s just like the mainland of the United States; meaning that people of racial groups stick together. In this essay, Manoff responds to people comments from his article “Want To Be Less Racist? Move to Hawaii” where there were people commenting their own personal experiences about if they felt Hawaii fit the “aloha spirit”. Some claimed that it was a “happy place to live” because they felt included and some claimed that it was just like any other place to live.