Family ties are very important to Hawaiians, but starting a family on the islands is not so easy. The permanent population is relatively small, and tourists are constantly replacing each other.
Making new acquaintances, and even more so starting a relationship with someone, is difficult in such conditions.
The situation is aggravated by the huge number of relatives, whom many have never even seen before meeting. You meet a nice girl, and it turns out that she is your second cousin. Mixed marriages, which are not uncommon on the islands, save the day.
They joke here that everyone is just waiting for someone to break up so they can quickly start a relationship with the freed candidate. And it is easy for a couple to quarrel because of the 24-hour “coconut radio”: say something to even one living soul, and all of Hawaii will know about it.