So is it your personal belief that the natives of North America, Hawaii, the Philippines and various other countries begged the US to occupy their lands, take their resources and leave their cultures in shambles? Cause I don't get what your point is.
The elected king of Hawaii literally went on a world tour to encourage foreign investors to build plantations in Hawaii. Hawaii would probably be uninhabited if there was no foreign involvement after Cook.
The term white savior is a critical description of a white person who is depicted as liberating, rescuing or uplifting non-white people; it is critical in the sense that it describes a pattern in which people of color in economically under-developed nations that are majority non-white are denied agency and are seen as passive recipients of white benevolence.
Best guesses are population dropped from 300k pre-contact to 142000 40 years later. Sounds like we did a great job.
The epidemics didn’t stop in 40 years, 100 years later the population was down to around 20 thousand. You are also entirely missing the point, I’m saying the islands would have been depopulated because we have several hundred examples of that happening. Island populations generally do not survive epidemics. Hawaii survived because of introduced labor and foreign investment. Without those there would have been total societal collapse.
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u/Half_Cent Jan 01 '24
So is it your personal belief that the natives of North America, Hawaii, the Philippines and various other countries begged the US to occupy their lands, take their resources and leave their cultures in shambles? Cause I don't get what your point is.
Also, cats aren't native to Hawaii.