Colonization has set up and impacted my Kahiau project topic of ocean pollution as we see it globally in various ways. Through this process, networks of ideas, inventions, and lifestyles have been engendered. Many of these effects such as the rise of industries worldwide have and still are contributing to ocean pollution and, thus, hurt our modern efforts to meet these challenges. However, there are some effects of colonization such as the invention of various technology that aid in cleansing and preserving our oceans. Overall, while colonization lead to many negative things that contribute to ocean pollution, it has also lead to such inventions that help us restore oceans and marine life. Imperialism played and continues to play a role in changing our understanding of certain events in history. Many of these events have been recorded and documented in a bias manner that expresses partiality towards a side. Typically, the "winners" of those occurrences are the ones who write their history, including the details they want to consider while emitting those they donʻt. An example of this can be found after WW1 when the "winners" (France, Britain, Russia, etc.) wrote the history of the war in their favor while scapegoating the Germans as the so-called "antagonists." Moreover, in relation to Hawaiʻi, this concept deters us from navigating for solutions to solve the problems here in Hawaiʻi because it misleads people in believing prejudice information which, thus, prevents them from understanding all facets of the issues and from making accurate assessments. Succinctly, imperialism promoted/promotes bias in historical documents/records which caused people from knowing the true details of events and resulted in the making of false conceptions. References
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