"Model citizen - Mayhem at the beach"

Behold the deleted scene from Lilo and Stitch, where Lilo has tourist and military men perform microaggressions upon her which result in what is most likely not her first "tsunami warning" scare upon hapless people.



You'd think that some of the interactions seem innocuous, just a couple people asking directions, but think about how they talk to her. The two people who ask her where the beach is, the first one is a tourist lady who, after receiving an answer, spoke mangled hawai'ian back to her in what I assume is thanks. It's tourists trying to be local, and in some ways it's not most obnoxious thing for tourists to do. It's what the second person after which makes the overall scene have multiple layers. The second person, a military guy, asked her first "Do you speak-a any English?" in pidgin, and then asked "do you know where the beach is?"



And it's then we notice that Lilo gave a different direction for that guy, showing that rather being someone passive in the exchange, she lets the viewer know that she probably doesn't like all these tourists who ask her the same question and put her on the spot by pointing out that she's native Hawaiian through indirect means.



The final nail on the coffin was when one of the tourists at the beach took a picture of her after saying "oh look! A real native!" If you've seen "candid" pictures from tourists who took photos of "local people" when in other countries, this is what's happening to Lilo. She's suddenly a subject, a person who represents the exoticness of Hawaii, even though it's been a part of the United States as a territory for a long time, and it's been half a century since it's been a state, but tourist treat it as some sort of close-to-home island paradise where they can observe "natives" or sample local culture in ways where they know they're visitors, but in trying to observe "authentic" exotic people and culture it's like they're going through a zoo or a safari.



It should also be noted that this scene helped to understand why Lilo takes pictures of (for some reason, mostly large) white tourists in the final cut of the film. She takes pictures of them as though they are observable specimens in their subjectivity, just like how in this deleted scene, some tourist points her out very loudly as "Oh look! A native!" and snaps a picture at her without her consent or even without a warning.



In a lot of ways, Lilo has become an alien in her own home just as Stitch is this fish-out-of-water alien trying to blend into Earth as a dog. The other two aliens trying to track Stitch down are like the human tourists: they don't know what's happening, but they assume it's an accepted form of local custom, and so they run with the tourists from Lilo's fake tsunami warning.