We talk about wanting the U.S.A. to de-occupy our country and we want back which is ours. Preparation is part of the process; how we re-change our attitude; use our empowerment for the benefit of all; and to be economically viable and independent. People generally are afraid of the unknown and question their confidence, obligation, responsibility, and what it takes to maintain it.The indoctrination, assimilation, and compliance affect us greatly in which instilling self-doubt and confidence has been the goal of subjugating the masses. When this overshadows your resolve, I want you to think of the time before the U.S. invasion and criminal occupation. What did we have and what did we accomplish before the Western intrusion of our society? How did we evolve and why did we choose to go in that direction? From what point did we contribute to make the world a better place? What did we choose to do under our own volition? What made us a great nation?We must recognize these things as we go forward. We must change the rules and counter the attacks levied against us. We must resist in falling prey to their underminding us and repel a defeatist attitude they tried to instill in us. We need to show them the true mettle of what we are made of; and we need to recognize who our true enemies are through self-examination. Why are we playing their game?Hawaii's Polynesian philosophy is to adopt, adapt, and be adept with new things that will enhance our society. That's what made us great. We are an industrious people who live in what we believe in and practice it. Contrary to what many believe, many Hawaiians have been successful in what they do and few have gone in an errant direction with their lives. You will find Hawaiians in all the various fields and careers that make up an energetic society with a rich culture and heritage to be proud of that reflect the people of the Hawaiian Kingdom.Drugs and alcohol are haole tools and weapons to bring down a nation and its people. Don't fall into that trap. Drugs alters the mind and one loses perspective in life. This is biochemical warfare that the Western world has used for centuries to overcome their foes; to subjugate the people. Why should they expose themselves when they can have the masses do the dirty work for them. Realize this and you begin to win the battle. They don't want you working on par with them; they don't like competition and need the upperhand. In the end, it's they that lack the confidence and it dispells their feeling of superiority. Show them that you can handle them on a one to one basis.Hawaiians were literate in both languages and as a people published more than 75 newpapers and journals in the mid 1800s. It's interesting to note that Hawaiians were more literate than those in the U.S.A. By the 1850s, Hawai'i's literacy rate in Hawaiian and English was upwards of 90% while within the U.S. it was around 60%. Hawaiians learned the value of education early on and used it to enhance themselves. They were quick to learn and could better define what they already knew. They learned quickly and performed well as a rule.So what are we saying? Be a positive contributor to our society and have the confidence that you can paddle your own canoe as well as help paddle the big canoe in moving it forward together. It's a matter of attitude and practicing what you've learned. You make the choices and live with them. You are the captain of your ship and it takes an armada to protect your territory. We are who we were; and that's a good thing. Personal sovereignty, domestic/internal sovereignty, and external sovereignty; it's all the same and you already have it...now live it!
I love your cultural mana'o on everything you have stated here, and agree with most of what you say. Only on a few word choice discrepancies that I find are easily correctable when it comes to defining our people as who we really are. We are not "Hawaiian's" but a people that preceded far prior to the inception of us as "Hawaiian's." We are kanaka maoli, po'e hawai'i, or na o'iwi o Hawai'i. I think when we get in the practice of describing ourselves correctly we not only give ourselves mana, but the kupuna who have stood their ground for as long as they have.
Also recognizing our cultural oppression and fear in a culturally unfriendly world in our global society also helps to push our people in a direction of engaging our oppressor's head on without the threat or fear of challenging the system that is currently in place. Recognizing the root of the oppression, which is the fear that we must be co-dependently reliant upon a system that has done nothing but reap the blood of those that are reliant upon it. And finally, making our community aware of the role we have played in allowing the U.S. oppressor to globally dominate and oppress other world cultures from a strategic Pacific region, which our kupuna recognized the importance of maintaining strict neutral international foreign relations. Whereas the U.S. Occupier saw that utilizing this area for occupancy, control, and base for war was best fit for continuing world domination and American imperialist endeavors.
"Hawaiians learned the value of education early on."
I think that Kanaka Maoli had an instilled sense of the importance of knowledge built into them even before Western "education" began here on our shores. They saw these tools of modernity as having mana with their values of thinking and assessing their changing times used them as a way to establish a wealth of everlasting mana on paper.
I don't like looking at it as though they learned quickly and performed well, but more so as they already carried the knowledge of a thousand generations of Polynesian genius, expertise, and skill; which allowed them to merely reform these tools of modernity into one of their own.
And mahalo for the last line of your paragraph. I want to put that up in my classroom so that all of my students can read that everyday. "PERSONAL SOVEREIGNTY, DOMESTIC/INTERNAL SOVEREIGNTY, AND EXTERNAL SOVEREIGNTY; IT'S ALL THE SAME AND YOU ALREADY HAVE IT. NOW LIVE IT." Maika'i ko'u mana'o. Mahalo nui loa. A hui hou
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Also recognizing our cultural oppression and fear in a culturally unfriendly world in our global society also helps to push our people in a direction of engaging our oppressor's head on without the threat or fear of challenging the system that is currently in place. Recognizing the root of the oppression, which is the fear that we must be co-dependently reliant upon a system that has done nothing but reap the blood of those that are reliant upon it. And finally, making our community aware of the role we have played in allowing the U.S. oppressor to globally dominate and oppress other world cultures from a strategic Pacific region, which our kupuna recognized the importance of maintaining strict neutral international foreign relations. Whereas the U.S. Occupier saw that utilizing this area for occupancy, control, and base for war was best fit for continuing world domination and American imperialist endeavors.
"Hawaiians learned the value of education early on."
I think that Kanaka Maoli had an instilled sense of the importance of knowledge built into them even before Western "education" began here on our shores. They saw these tools of modernity as having mana with their values of thinking and assessing their changing times used them as a way to establish a wealth of everlasting mana on paper.
I don't like looking at it as though they learned quickly and performed well, but more so as they already carried the knowledge of a thousand generations of Polynesian genius, expertise, and skill; which allowed them to merely reform these tools of modernity into one of their own.
And mahalo for the last line of your paragraph. I want to put that up in my classroom so that all of my students can read that everyday. "PERSONAL SOVEREIGNTY, DOMESTIC/INTERNAL SOVEREIGNTY, AND EXTERNAL SOVEREIGNTY; IT'S ALL THE SAME AND YOU ALREADY HAVE IT. NOW LIVE IT." Maika'i ko'u mana'o. Mahalo nui loa. A hui hou
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