Kaleo Patterson Speech Analysis

Tourism is one of the largest industries in America today. Tourism is a great way to visit other countries and cultures. We get to visit foreign countries and stay in the nicest hotels while eating the best food the place has to offer. We even get to practice some of their traditions and visit some their interesting attractions. But what we don’t see as visitors is that that nice hotel we’re staying in use to be where someone’s home once was or where a special burial site was located. While were eating their best dishes, those could have been used to feed the native women men and children, who are now homeless because we wanted a nice hotel. While we practice their traditions as entertainment they are practicing it because a lifestyle and …show more content…
Speaker, Rev. Kaleo Patterson, speech Tourism’s Negative Impact on Native Hawaiians, explains what is truly going on behind the influence f the big businesses. He goes into detail of how Hawaiians are facing many troubles that include taking and destroying of their land, culture, and economy. The overall audience that Patterson is trying to reach is feauture and current travelers. The purpose of this speech is to inform the audience of the harsh reality of native Hawaiian. Patterson makes the claim that tourism ruins the quality of life for the natives and he makes readers understand a native Hawaiian’s perspective and what they are feeling, through his use of pathos and logos. He uses pathos and logos in each major part of his speech but his whole argument is held together because of …show more content…
Pattersons seems as if he goes on a rant while speaking on this topic. Although his argument is valid, he goes off on a tangent. PAttersons starts this section off with many great facts and evidence to support the idea that tourismd is ruining the environment, but then he starts to repeat things that were already discuusesed in the perivious sections. “The Hawaiians are truly a people forcibly removed from the land generation after generation. In the community that I am from, this past summer over nineteen families were evicted to restore a beach park for visitor and community use.”( Patterson). Perhaps it is an attempt to reiterate to vistrors that the overall problem is that hawaiina are being mistreated and America is repeasting mistakes made long ago and the other comntries are following in our foot