Someone I met today asked me an honest question. It was clear he was a tourist, so I took no offense to it. Though, I suppose I could see it being weird if I had a different perspective on the matter.

"Do people really say aloha to each other here?"

My coworker and I exchanged glances. Both of us had affirmative answers for the question, she started.

"Yeah, some people do. It's not common, but it isn't weird."
"Oh, I just thought it was only a tourist thing."

I jumped in.

"I have friends who've extensively studied Hawaiian culture. For them, it's a large part of their lives so the language is just an extension of it."

I walked away at that point. There wasn't much else to say.