This winter break I wasnʻt on Oahu, I was on Maui, so I couldnʻt do anything to help the homeless in my community or on the island of Oahu. Even though I wasnʻt on Oahu, I still helped out the homeless that I saw by giving a little money or spare food I had. During winter break my mom and I talked and called around a few churches and food drives. We are still working on a date because my mom is trying to see when she will be here or not. A way that Globalization relates to my topic is that there are some many people coming into Hawaii and don’t get jobs which leads them into becoming homeless. Or they are ex-veterans that end up living on the streets because they can’t get another job. I feel that this is something to think about because there are so many people coming to Hawaii for a fresh start, but they end up on the streets because they either canʻt find a job, or they canʻt afford to live here since the cost of living in Hawaiʻi is so high. This affects Hawaii because we are seen as “Paradise” but when you actually come here you see a bunch of homeless people all over and mainly in the places where there are many tourists. Globalization and Colonization also affects Hawaiʻi because those people that do come here and end up getting jobs are taking away from locals. That is a big reason why there are a lot of locals living in poverty. They are forced to take dead end jobs that pay minimum wage. Colonization and Globalization has given me a different and better understanding of our topic as it relates to homelessness. It made me see that many of these people coming into Hawaii is because of colonization and globalization because they came here to work on the sugarcane and pineapple fields. And they brought in Filipinos, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Chinese, etc. And they weren’t working at a high paying job which left them living together and eventually being homeless over the years because prices went up and they were still getting a low amount of pay. This is a problem to our groups project because it means that there are still going to be more people coming in and they are going to have anywhere to live or have any jobs which are going to lead them into becoming homeless.
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