SlicerDicer on Nostr: In the Hawaiian Disaster, lets not forget this is not just the Hawaiian people. ...
In the Hawaiian Disaster, lets not forget this is not just the Hawaiian people.
People forget there is decedents of the Chinese slaves that make up Chinatown where I lived for a while. Those are 5th+ generation now. There is the Filipino population and all the Hapas. There is many groups that have been subjugated by one group or another with those islands. There is also Tongans, Samoans and more. They are all suffering from the economic damage.
5.6 billion economy -> 1.3 billion economy
That has major consequences that harm everyone of all walks of life.
Here is a primer what things use to be like before statehood for those who are romantic about the past too. Only when there was no money was it actually Hawaiian. Here is a bit from it below.
For those contract laborers who found conditions unbearable and tried to run away, again the law permitted their employers "coercive force" to apprehend them, and their contracts on the plantation would be extended by double the period of time they had been away. If such a worker then refused to serve, he could be jailed and sentenced to hard labor until he gave in. The law, therefore, made it virtually impossible for the workers to organize labor unions or to participate in strikes. Indeed, the law was only a slight improvement over outright slavery.
https://www.hawaii.edu/uhwo/clear/home/HawaiiLaborHistory.html
People forget there is decedents of the Chinese slaves that make up Chinatown where I lived for a while. Those are 5th+ generation now. There is the Filipino population and all the Hapas. There is many groups that have been subjugated by one group or another with those islands. There is also Tongans, Samoans and more. They are all suffering from the economic damage.
5.6 billion economy -> 1.3 billion economy
That has major consequences that harm everyone of all walks of life.
Here is a primer what things use to be like before statehood for those who are romantic about the past too. Only when there was no money was it actually Hawaiian. Here is a bit from it below.
For those contract laborers who found conditions unbearable and tried to run away, again the law permitted their employers "coercive force" to apprehend them, and their contracts on the plantation would be extended by double the period of time they had been away. If such a worker then refused to serve, he could be jailed and sentenced to hard labor until he gave in. The law, therefore, made it virtually impossible for the workers to organize labor unions or to participate in strikes. Indeed, the law was only a slight improvement over outright slavery.
https://www.hawaii.edu/uhwo/clear/home/HawaiiLaborHistory.html