we also can't compare based on the atrocities that occurred to the groups of people and say one degrees more recognition than the other or that one holds more validity over the other simply for suffering more.
And now again, this morning as I read a comment reminding us of Hawaii's bloody wars of the past. I've heard a similar analogy used on Kamehameha in the unification of the islands. If they're not using the bloody past (both figuratively and non-figuratively) justifying the US overthrow of 1893 or Occupation of 1898, they're using it to simply say, "look, your past is as bloody as ours."
But do we dare go there? Hawaiians did have wars back then, as bloody as it may have been, but that ended once Kamehameha united the islands. Why aren't they talking about that? Did Hawaiians decimate other cultures and people on foreign lands where they spoke different languages? Did Hawaiians spread diseases among those foreign people? Did Hawaiians have relationships with other countries and decided to take over their country simply for the fact that if that if it wasn't taken over by Hawaiians others would have? Did Hawaiians feel a God given right to subjugate any and all people elsewhere?
But in reality, we can't take history and begin to quantify it, seeing which part of history is worth more or which group's history deserves more recognition, or worse, try to gather the amount of violence and begin to make comparisons in order to make it seem that we're all humans. We all are the same, contrary to what Haoles would like to believe. Hate to burst your bubble but we can be like you too.
We can think for ourselves, we can voice our own opinions, we can become well educated, we can be successful and most importantly, many Hawaiians have done all that I've said. So when Haoles try to state that they are trying to be helpful, which I know sometimes they really mean it, the next thing we encounter is their modus operandi, their different perceptions are used to consult us in our affairs. But we didn't ask them for help.
Their constant need to want to help us is nothing more than a means to feed their egos making them feel useful, if it is a guilty feeling they're having, or to validate why they feel superior by consulting us in our affairs. When they're told to fuck off by any possible way, they begin to quantify things as if to say, "Your people are just as wrong as our people."
But let's look at the whole picture here. I said we can't quantify history because you can't. This isn't about quantifying history, but rather justifying why their opinions and advice are suppose to be much more valid, more credible, more successful than our own. That's what it comes down to and in order to do that, they need to point out the flaws of our people, and our history. That goes back to an important thing I learned about the Ego, and that is complaining, faultfinding and reacting are things that the Ego thrives on making it feel superior by strengthening its sense of boundary and separateness.
What does the fact that Kamehameha and before that time with the bloody wars have to do with Hawaiians voicing their opinions against injustices? What does that type of violence have to do with the Overthrow of Queen Liliuokalani in 1893, who was a devout Christian? What does that have to do with the Occupation in 1898? I should actually ask, how does that relate to the bloody wars back then? Again, nothing more than an excuse for Haoles to come in and step on our shoes and meddle in affairs they have no business being in.
Haahaa, a trait many egotiscal Haoles cannot express, because it's not in them. It's the same reason why we have these ridiculous reality shows, where these type of behaviors may be looked down in many of Hawaii's cultures for the lack of haahaa.
Enough with the meddling. Allow us to be who we are and handle things the way we'd like to. In the end, only WE can experience the outcome of our own doings. I can understand the need to enhance your ego and get off on it but seriously, do that some other way, we don't want your help.
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There's this idea in their brain that hawaiians (or whatever native culture) were these uncontrollable savages who couldn't help themselves, but to be brutal at all times. What culture would thrive under those conditions?