![]() From there, local children mimicked and spread the gesture.Īccidents like Kalili’s certainly happened on Hawaiian plantations, perhaps even fairly often. The company, the Kahuku Sugar Mill, gave him a new job as a security guard every time he waved, he’d make what’s now known as the shaka hand. One day, Kalili’s hand got caught in the rollers and he ended up losing his three middle fingers. His job was to feed sugar cane stalks into the rollers of a machine that would squeeze out the cane’s sweet juice. However, according to the Honolulu Star-Bulletin, the prevailing origin story goes back about a century to Hawaiian plantation worker Hamana Kalili. Hamana Kalili statue at the Polynesian Cultural Center Courtesy Polynesian Cultural Center Another claims it came from mid-19th-century Chinese immigrants using the gesture to signify the number six. One of several versions of the story suggests the gesture originated with early Spanish explorers asking for a drink. As Tamba puts it, “surfing spread it more than anything else.”īut the origins of where the shaka hand came from are far murkier than its global rise to emoji-keyboard stardom. While Fasi and Espinda helped make the shaka hand more recognizable in Hawai‘i, surfing’s surge in popularity in the 1950s and 1960s helped export the gesture abroad. As a sign-off for his 1960s television ads, Espinda would throw a shaka and then say his catchphrase: “shaka, brah!” In the 1970s and 1980s, the gesture also featured prominently in reelection campaign ads for Frank Fasi, Honolulu’s longest-serving mayor. The shaka hand grew in popularity across Hawai‘i in the mid-20th century thanks in part to used car salesman David “Lippy” Espinda, who was the first to link the gesture to the word-which is not actually Hawaiian in origin, but more likely Japanese. There’s the casual, one-handed shaka and there’s the “strong,” double-handed shaka for flagging someone down at a crowded concert, or saying hello to a friend you haven’t seen in a while. Tamba throws different shakas for different reasons. So they’re kind of like catching the shaka,” he says. “You’re kind of like throwing it out there, you know, to your friend or someone away in the distance. Tamba is quick to clarify that the shaka isn’t a wave. “It’s just, from my perspective, a way of saying hi, a way of saying goodbye, and spreading some good spirit, you know, the eternal spirit of aloha,” he says. Have you been Ten printed for Child? The answer is ‘No’ if the child as the child’s fingerprints are not usually taken at the US embassy if the age is less than 14 years.Saa Tamba, owner of Tamba Surf Company on Kaua‘i, has been throwing shakas his whole life. If you are outside the USA and have applied for a US visa for the first time, you will be 10 printed (or your 10 fingerprints) will be taken at the OFC center before your Visa interview at the US embassy (in your country). 10 printing – fingerprinting is done at OFC center If you do NOT remember that fingerprints were even taken, you can safely answer this as ‘ NO‘.ĭon’t worry, the US embassy will take your fingerprints again and mark your profile as ten-printed. If you have given any US visa interview earlier in any US embassy, you should answer ‘ YES‘. ![]() How do I know if I was ten printed is a common question while filling DS-160 form Q1 for H1B, B1/B2, H4, etc (or any other visa type) visa stamp.Īnswer ‘ NO‘ to this question on Form DS-160 if this is your first-time application for any US visa. ![]() ![]() Have you been ten-printed on DS-160 form? Those fingerprints are referred to as ‘ Ten Printing‘. Remember, when you visit the US embassy for a visa interview, your fingerprints are taken a day ahead in some countries like India. If you have applied for a USA visa any time after 2007, your fingerprints would already have been taken by them at some or another point of the US visa application process.
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