Colonization impacts my Kahiau Project Topic, Poverty, as we see it globally and throughout our study of history. The very definition of colonization is taking control over indigineous people of an area. Meaning that because people are taking control over other people it also affects how the economy will now work, and the social ranks will rise. The new government who took control over the people may raise taxes in that area, or demand more produce. However there were some benefits that came with the demand of more produce. The people had more trading opportunities with bigger countries. But this wasn’t the case with the Portugal colonization of Brazil. Brazilian people sold themselves to survive. They were slaves, later on they fled from their masters to America. This caused a labor crisis to occur, and the Portugese began to bring African people for slavery. As we can see colonization affects every aspect in history, and the effects still take place up to today. Meyer, A. (1970, January 01). Brazil.org.za. Retrieved May 05, 2021, from https://www.brazil.org.za/portuguese-colonisation-of-brazil.html Newsroom, T., & Newsroom, T. (2019, May 27). Brazil's colonial Period (1500-1822). Retrieved May 05, 2021, from https://brazilian.report/guide-to-brazil/2017/09/25/colonial-brazil/ Imperialism changes our understanding of these things through the lens of our cultural history of language, culture, and activism in the community, and helps us to navigate for a solution to these problems here in Hawai’i. The reason for this is because we can learn from the past mistakes that we’ve made, and learn from them. Making the solutions better piece by piece. Understanding the history of our culture can open our eyes to how wrongly the US treated the people of Hawaii. Our Kupuna suffered a great amount of loss, including their homes, money, food, land, and pieces of their native traditions. Including the language. The reason they lost so much is due to the imperialism of Hawaii. And from there we can understand that Hawaii didn’t just give up their land to foreigners, but that the land and more was taken from them. From the losses Hawaii has suffered as a community we can work together as one to make a greater standing and let them hear our voices. We can see this happening in history through the annexation of Hawaii that happened on July 12, 1898. Hawaii was discovered by Captain Cook in 1778, from there Queen Liliuokalani was forced to surrender to the United States. The queen objected to the annexation, and tried to defend the islands. She was forced into a corner where she would die and the US would continue the annexation or she would surrender and let the annexation continue. We can understand that there was really no changing the outcome of this event. Soon afterward, Hawaii became the 50th state of the nation. And native Hawaiians lost their culture and land to the Americans who took over. Imperialism: Annexation of hawaii - history for dummies. (n.d.). Retrieved May 06, 2021, from https://sites.google.com/site/historyfordummies2/unit-7/imperialism-annexation-of-hawaii
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The Industrial Age and the revolutions it caused, for example the French Revolution, set up my Kahiau Project as we see it globally throughout our study of history. In the Industrial Age we can see that it evolved the economies that were based on agriculture and handicrafts into economies that were based on a larger scale industry. Many factories were built, along with new ways of organizing work. Factories paid low wages, working conditions were dangerous. With so many people looking for jobs, they came into the city and spread diseases. The cities became overcrowded. Disease became common, and children could no longer afford to go to school. Instead they needed to work with their parents, to put food on the table, and to survive. The Industrial revolution caused poverty, which led to the French Revolution. People had less foods to sell, and with less food to sell they wouldn’t need to pay taxes, and people got hungrier. As a result people began to revolt with the government for not being able to provide enough for the people. (n.d.). Retrieved April 28, 2021, from https://www.britannica.com/event/Industrial-RevolutionIndustrial-Revolution French revolution. (n.d.). Retrieved April 28, 2021, from https://www.britannica.com/event/French-Revolution Industrial revolution. (n.d.). Retrieved April 28, 2021, from https://www.britannica.com/event/Industrial-Revolution The understanding of these things in history as well as knowing our culture history through language, culture, and activism in the community, helps us to navigate for a solution for these problems here in Hawai’i… Knowing the cultural history through the language and culture lets us know the change Hawaiians brought throughout history. In 1896 after the U.S government illegally overthrew the Hawaiian government, Hawaiians needed to fight for their rights. Including the right of their native language, Hawaiian. Traditions and cultures were also taken from them, but they managed to salvage what they could. This helps us navigate to a solution for problems here in Hawai’i, because we can learn from the history of what happened, and how the U.S government was able to overthrow the Hawaiian government, and we now understand why and how that happened, and we can take that information and learn from it. French revolution. (n.d.). Retrieved April 28, 2021, from https://www.britannica.com/event/French-Revolution Goo, S. (2019, June 22). The Hawaiian language nearly DIED. a radio Show Sparked its revival. Retrieved April 28, 2021, from https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2019/06/22/452551172/the-hawaiian-language-nearly-died-a-radio-show-sparked-its-revival#:~:text=The%20Hawaiian%20language%20had%20been,illegally%20overthrew%20the%20Hawaiian%20government. Industrial revolution. (n.d.). Retrieved April 28, 2021, from https://www.britannica.com/event/Industrial-Revolution Living in a land where food is scarce, and the only thought on your mind is how you will find food and water for the day. A land where it’s eat or be eaten. People who did not live in Agricultural societies have been through this, and people are still going through this today. More commonly around the 1500’s Native Americans gathered food in any way possible. This included hunting, fishing, and gathering roots with other edible plants. In agricultural societies where food wasn’t scarce people generally thought about money, and shelter. People had plentiful food, and some people didn’t need to hunt, or gather food. In fact if they had enough money all they needed to do was pay for it. However this may not have been as comfortable as it seemed. People became dependent on their profitable lands, and when fields and crops did not produce enough product chaos would be abrupt, and people would starve. And as people grew greedy for money, chaos was caused. And power was thrown around to whoever had the most money. And people who didn’t have much money were looked down on and frowned upon. My Kahiau topic is Poverty. The idea of traditional foraging/hunter-gathering and modern Agricultural societies have major impacts on my Kahiau topic. For one, the two titles in general almost represent the people of the higher and lower class in general. People from Agricultural societies looked down on people who didn't’ come from lands where food could be bought. Foraging and hunter-gatherers also had a higher and lower class, but this was usually determined by physical features, like how big and old you were, the amount of anything you had didn’t really matter. Unlike how the Agricultural societies operated. The more money you had, the more power and advantage you had over anyone else in society. The general fact is that poverty revolves around the classes of society. The lower your class is the more likely to be part of the poverty class. This includes not being able to afford things, or have enough of what you need to survive (food, water, shelter, etc.).
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