Is Hawaii America
Hawaii is AmericaI' ve been changing in Hawaii.
Hawaii's long tradition attracts little interest on the United States. Persons Cook had known on the island had occupied'?ina (land) for almost 1500 years. In the nineteenth and eighteenth centuries, Europe and America discovered, tradesmen and navy officials landed routine on the coast of Hawaii.
Hawaiians greeted them. Hawaiians considered the Pacific Ocean (ka moana) part of their homeland, and the Haolians who came there were visitors. 1820 14 US Missionary - seven pairs - arrive. These were New England Protestants who hoped to affect the enigmatic heathens. All their belongings had been taken over by the evangelists and they wanted to remain for a lifetime.
Others followed, and their offspring bred on the isles. In the 1850s, the numbers of US missionsaries' kids were over 250. Free roaming the island were the whites who called themselves "Anglo Hawaiians". These people regarded themselves as faithful servants of the tribal Hwaiian empire, whose supremacy and autonomy were silently defended by the United States, Great Britain and France.
However, the missionaries feared that their island kids would not get the advantages of US nationality - such as schooling, training, agricultural and work. Pastoral missionaries have never regarded their kids as anything other than US nationality, race and people. For example, a purely whitewashed residential home was built in Honolulu-Punahou to help students get ready for college in the United States.
Maybe it's not surprising that mission kids felt different from their mothers. Americans, it seemed, did not regard the mission kids as completely known. Dark browned, poorly clad and with pagan tongues (besides English, Greek and Latin), the Mission kids were borne in a tropic environment which, as the Americans thought, created inertia and retarded advancement in industry.
Mission kids found that in the United States they were seen as little better than the local Hawaiians. The Hawaiian whites were seen by many Americans as the Hawaiian missibians as the island's tribal missionaries: suspicious of morality and racist subordination. Nearly without exceptions, the evangelists hate life in the United States.
You didn't really belonged to America. Bawaiian gal with Lei. Instead, on mission, ministers came back to the Isles to rebuild their futures on the high level of support their families received as religious and policy advisers to the government of Hawaii. As they taught the Anglo-Saxon languages and the laws of the world, US ministers also discussed Hwaiian sovereigns over landmarks, farm produce and personal possessions, who saw both the Hwaiian emperor and the legislative (itself a missionary-inspired creation) as ways to be commercially viable and live up to the European and US imperialism.
That overestimates the riches gained by them and underestimates the missionaries' aim of profiting from their parents' reputation. Whilst the misionaries used their powers to give their kids the opportunity to buy cheap lands, the misionaries went back to the island as university grads to acquire riches and new jobs, governmental positions and new jobs, which included justice, survey, engineering and of course cane-growing.
These kids' powers would increase. Just as Hawaii' culture tradition - such as community taroplantation - is dying out, so are Hawaii's indigenous people ravaged by alien disease such as pox, measles, synphilis and TB. From 1832 to 1853 the indigenous people of Hawaii fell from 130,000 to 70,000. Candy growers engaged workers (slightly more than slaves) from Japan, China, South America and Portugal to complement the dwindling indigenous people.
The Hawaiians knew nothing of their retreat. The Hawaiians petitioned the Emperor and in Hawaii' s papers asking their governments not to trade any of their lands to other people. At first, the Mission' ministers were outside this discussion. The Hawaiians were Hawaiians by virtue of their origin on the Isles, not Hazole (foreigners), a term used to describe the whites of the United States and Europe.
Hawaiians finally found another nickname for the mission kids who helped the island's dramatic change. You just named the kids "missionary". It was clearly intended for those who had not decided to join their families in the service, but still stayed on the island to profit from their parents' achievements when US missionaries went back to the United States in old age, retirement, and even dying.
A lot of Americans considered the Spanish language professors from Hawaii as the island's Indian missionaries: suspicious and racist. Even in the 1860', 1870' and 1880' the consecutive King of Hawaii did not try to rein in the "missionary" clout. During the 1890s, mature proselytised ministers determined that American nationality was the only way to safeguard their island states.
You also wanted to consolidate Hawaii's strong trading relationship with the United States. In an attempt to lift the country's own constitutional charter to reinforce their own powers and the Hawaiian Indians' right to politics, the mission kids responded with violence. 1893 a group under the leadership of Sanford Ballard Dole, the Hawaii-born sons of US missionsaries, fell the monarch.
By 1898, the US Congress fulfilled the group' requests and annihilated the group. The annexation conferred the Hawaiians US nationality under the protection of the 14. The Hawaiians didn't want it. The Hawaiians as well as the Mission kids have won and won. These mission kids received the financial advantages of US nationality - but they no longer belonged to the social classes of the Hawaiians.
Hawaiians were given an US nationality and a US ID - but they were losing their country, their tongue, their administration and their minds. So who doesn't want to become an inhabitant? We Americans are free and prosperous because we are Americans. But the Hawaiians suffered much loss when they became part of our country. Several Hawaiians are now in favour of the restoration of sovereignity.
The last sugary farm was shut down in 2016 and young Hawaiians are now trying to revitalise the old, community taroplantation on their wastelands. Hawaii's leaders are taking an action to increase the amount of crops grown and decrease the state's dependence on expensive imported goods. Hispanics and their disciples have revived the Malawian-speaking world.
Whilst such endeavours are vitally important in historical and economic terms, Hawaiians of all races are also proud of another history: Hawaii is the first US state in which there is no ethnical minority. Twenty-five years ago, when I first came to the island, I went among Asians - now the biggest ethnical group to live on the island - and Hawaiians, whites and people from all over the globe.
And just like in the nineteenth centuary, the inhabitants of Hawaii, the maka'?inana ("people who work the land") greeted me. There are some who say that Hawaii's tourism sector promotes a mistaken island story, but I do not see it that way. Welcoming others home, treating someone well, regardless of riches, ethnic origin, color or the cost of such a welcome - that's really Hwaiian.
Hawaiians still show great kindness and generousness towards their roommates and those who constantly come to their coasts, despite the disastrous loss to their people and people. You' re a vivid example of how to be an American.