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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