“So it happens that, overawed by the power of the United States to the extent that they can neither themselves throw off the usurpers, nor obtain assistance from other friendly states, the people of the Islands have no voice in determining their future, but are virtually relegated to the condition of the aborigines of the American continent.”
This sentence from Hawaii’s story by Hawaii’s Queen I felt was important because it focuses on an idea that we have discussed all semester. Let me explain, as we have looked into the early settlements of America we saw that the Native Americans were forced to learn a new way of life and as a result the natives to lost their identity as a culture. On Tuesday we discussed the concept of Imperialism and the connection with America. We saw the picture of the Philippine boy being washed who is resisting this bath. America never gave any of these cultures a decision in whether or not to accept the American way of life instead it was forced upon them. “The people of the Islands have no voice in determining their future.” There is not only one right answer. Early America believed that the only correct way to live life was their own and I believe that is incorrect.
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