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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