Viet Nam, Korea, and China. I say these three places because they all had one or more things to do with each other. The US was involved with all of the countries for good and bad. Fighting the soviets and the communists. The US wanted to prevent or contain communism in these three countries.
I think it all lines up with Free Market Capitalism, Communism, and Socialism. In Hawaiʻi have faced or continue to face all of these. For Free Market Capitalism, Hawaiʻi was known for our cash crops during the plantation age and that was a buy sold happenings. For Communism, the white man told us that our land does not belong to us and took that and distributed it and made us work for pay. And lastly for Socialism, Hawaiian are still rising up and reversing the system fighting for the production, distribution, and exchange here in Hawaiʻi to be run by our community.
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In ending World War II, it was the U.S. that began a race to construct nuclear weaponry. The U.S. then dropped the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in hopes to end the war. The war ended and Japan surrendered. Allies helped also in ending the war. They accepted Germany’s surrender as well.
All in all there is a big concern for our kahiau project topic. To Hawaiians our water is the most important resource of all because it sustains life. In World War II the Japanese bombed Puʻuloa as well as many other places around the island of Oʻahu. During that time there was a fear that they would target our watersheds, with that happening it would have poisoned all of our drinking water leaving it too toxic for consumption. Why were we targeted in the first place? Well that was because we are illegally an American territory where a mass amount of U.S military testing occurs and continues to occur. America will go out of their way to do anything possible to sustain power. They will use and manipulate indigenous people, strip them of their identity, and take away all their possessions. I am of an indigenous peoples. They gave my people disease, then they brainwashed us with their education, and then they took our land. In which brought Hawaiʻi in the middle of a world war only to be targeted and attacked with a nuclear bomb. The Treaty of Versailles was the most important political document of the century because negotiated rights amongst everyone at the time. They recognized that it was Germany’s fault for the War and blamed it all on Germany. Germany then became angry and basically said not fair and blamed everyone else. With everyone fighting over the first war, it only left room for more conflict. Then everyone started to bring more war into the conversation. From all of this talking created trauma again between everyone. And there was little miss America sitting on the sidelines watching their economy thrive because everyone else was buying and trading goods from them because they were in need after the war. Then everyone wanted to point fingers and bring America into the situation. Hawaiʻi being a “U.S. territory” at the time made us vulnerable to attack. So when World War II came along Japan took it out on Hawaiʻi.
Artificial waterways exist all over the world, most of the world is artificial anyways. I think it will take a lot to stop development of artificial waters ways but never say never. I feel that what will make the best leader is someone who this issue affects personally. Maybe they are connected to that land or lose benefit from these artificial waterways. Someone with great passion to protect and fight for this purpose with all they can give. A great example would be our protectors on Mauna Kea. They give everything they have to protect our mauna and they stand alo to alo with adversity. Those are the kinds of leaders we need in communities internationally.
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