Colonization has a huge impact on my Kahiau Project topic. My Kahiau Project topic was focused on the UN sustainability goal, no poverty. More specifically, we focused on homelessness through poverty. Colonization impacts poverty in many ways. Our ancestors, along with many more native communities were colonized by the white community. While being colonized, we were all stripped of our culture and rights. They took away everything we had that made us who we are. Not caring about how it would affect us, they became greedy and began to take advantage of their power. They stole things that were valuable to us and made us wealthy, such as our land. This hurts our modern efforts to meet these challenges because the government is still run by the white community. A lot of the minority population is made up of the native communities who were colonized. So when we try to do something about it, it does not get too far. Imperialism changes our understanding of these things in history through the lens of our cultural history of language, culture, and activism in the community because there will always be a competition for power and dominance. The fight for power and dominance is the root cause of the many problems we have today in the world. We live in a world where wealth is the reason why you have status. The wealthier you are, the more power you have. This deters us from navigating for a solution to these problems here in Hawaiʻi and globally. If we were to focus on fixing the many problems we have, it would allow us to understand how much there is to fix. We need to do better at working to uplift the lāhui and we can start by helping to reduce the poverty and homelessness rates. References: Aggarwal, S. (2018, April 19). British Colonialism and Social Change in the Metropole. Medium. https://medium.com/sunnya97/british-colonialism-and-social-change-in-the-metropole-4bd87996aeec Akana, M. H. (2020a). Colonization & Imperialism, Modern Warfare & Identity Crisis [Slides]. Google Slides. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kn7DaWeO8KI2kblnAQXYfbFRYyLCUg0B/view R. (2020, October 20). The Real History of Imperialism: A Comment on Recent Debates. ROAPE. https://roape.net/2019/02/28/the-real-history-of-imperialism-a-comment-on-recent-debates/
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The Industrial age and the Revolutions that occur impacts my Kahiau Project topic, poverty, greatly through the study of history. In the France, it was seen that lower classes were treated more harsh and poorly than the higher classes. This is a major factor in the starting of the French Revolution. The king put taxes on everything the poor had and paid for. There is also a mentality that the Europeans had which was they are better than everyone else, therefore they deserve more. We can see this globally today because those who live in poverty are highly frowned upon, especially those whom are homeless. Those of the higher class usually do not feel like they need to help because it is not their problem. I feel like these ideas are still alive today and will take a long time to diminish. Understanding these things as well as knowing or cultural history can help us to navigate for a solution of these problems here in Hawaiʻi. When we are able to understand the root causes of these problems that have occurred within our cultural history, we can use that information to create solutions to prevent it from occurring again. For example, a lot of poverty that has happened to us in Hawaiʻi was caused by the introduction of the missionaries. Slowly, they took away our land, our culture, our language, and our traditions. We as kānaka were poor in spirit and culture. References: Akana, H. M. (2020b). FL (4) French Revolution [Slides]. Google Slides. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qlVdBZgA5w_2e7o3dO5ESj2ihFB5gp9f/view Sai, K. (2018, October 1). The U.S. Occupation of the Hawaiian Kingdom | NEA. NEA. https://www.nea.org/advocating-for-change/new-from-nea/us-occupation-hawaiian-kingdom Ramos, F. M. (2019, June 4). Uncertainty in ending extreme poverty. Brookings. https://www.brookings.edu/blog/future-development/2019/06/04/uncertainty-in-ending-extreme-poverty/ Akana, H. M. (2020). FL (2) - Impacts of the Industrial Revolution . . . Revolutionary Technology [Slides]. Google Slides. https://drive.google.com/file/d/15xgWVzJ1bYQdc6eHwo0TSiRQhoZzrtDc/view Nguyen, F. (2020, August 7). Mauna Kea: Native Hawaiians are still fighting to save the sacred mountain. Vox. https://www.vox.com/2020/8/7/21354619/mauna-kea-tmt-telescope-native-hawaiian With all of our guest speakers, I have learned a lot about how art can be used to showcase past and modern concerns within society. There are many different types of art that can be used to display social concerns. It all depends on how you put it together and choose to display it to the world. You need to be passionate about what you are trying to raise awareness about. If you are not, your art piece will not impact anyone. You need to understand what it is you are trying to fight for as well. If you donʻt understand, your art piece will be hard for others to comprehend. Overall, your art piece depends on how you choose to put it together and display it.
References: Suwito, K. A. (2020, September 25). Art and online activism amid the pandemic: lessons from around the world. The Conversation. https://theconversation.com/art-and-online-activism-amid-the-pandemic-lessons-from-around-the-world-140161 The most important connection between World History and current event advocacy is to help prevent history from repeating itself. As we all know, history tends to repeat itself over and over and over again. Whether or not the events that happened were severe or minor, there are many cases where the same events have occurred. If we are able to advocate for current events that are happening today and make a change. We can prevent history from repeating either a severe or minor tragedy. The most important and impactful idea I have gained from our guest speakers would be to take a stand and fight for what you believe in. When you have a strong feeling about something in this world that can be changed, fight for your beliefs. What good would we be doing if we just sat back and let all the unjust things in this world occur? If you decide to fight you could be changing the lives of millions of people. Solving and creating solutions for global/worldwide issues for people who cannot be their own voice. Refernces: B, J. (2021). Advocate Guest Speakers. Lecture. Guess, A. (2017, June 8). Still Here! Advocating for Senior HIV Health. POZ. https://www.poz.com/blog/still-advocating-senior-hiv-health. Hollingsworth, S. (2019, January 22). Top 9 Benefits of Social Media for Your Business. Search Engine Journal. https://www.searchenginejournal.com/social-media-business-benefits/286139/. The Silk Road events had a positive impact on our UN goal, no poverty. The Silk Road was a route that allowed for trade to happen. Through the Silk Road you were able to trade resources such as cash crops, valuables, and agriculture. The Silk Road also provided a sense of collective learning as well. With collective learning, it would allow our ancestors and descendants to evolve their knowledge. Collective learning and trade through the Silk Road helped to prevent poverty from expanding and happening for a while. On the other hand, colonization had a negative impact on our UN goal, no poverty. Colonization is the act of establishing control over the indigenous people of an area. Europeans colonized many different indigenous people and cultures. They brought things such as diseases which destroyed the indigenous populations. Colonization was harsh on the ecosystem as well. Before, the amount of resources you could provide, the wealthier you were. With colonization happening, it made the ecosystem and economy suffer causing indigenous people to start living in poverty. References:
Akana, M. H. (2020). FL Summer 20 (3) - Exploration, Exchange, Expansion, Enlightenment & Colonization - Google Slides.webm [Slides]. Google Slides. https://drive.google.com/file/d/10a0GNZzoGN4TreZC_WyVQR6O2d4sVvKw/view Barter in Prehistoric Times. (2012, February 15). Mises Institute. https://mises.org/library/barter-prehistoric-times Green, J. (Director). (2012, March 22). The Silk Road and Ancient Trade: Crash Course World History #9 [Video file]. Retrieved November 01, 2020, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfe-eNq-Qyg Savat, S. (2020, December 7). Rewriting history: New evidence challenges Euro-centric narrative of early colonization | The Source | Washington University in St. Louis. The Source. https://source.wustl.edu/2020/07/rewriting-history-new-evidence-challenges-euro-centric-narrative-of-early-colonization/ |
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