Culture of Hawaii

The Polynesian Islands are a cluster of islands in the Southwestern Pacific Ocean. The secular hymns, or himene, of Tahiti and the French Polynesian Islands serve many purposes. These include storytelling, entertainment [bringue parties], celebration, and spreading cultural awareness. The music of the French Polynesia is logogenic, which means it is word oriented rather than melody oriented. The words in French Polynesian songs must be clearly annunciated, while the accompanying melody is mainly…

stereotypes. Films, posters, and songs encouraged Americans to hate the Japanese as a people, rather than to simply desire the defeat of the Japanese military, comparing them to vermin or subhuman beasts.12 Even more moderate newspapers and other popular culture outlets referred to the Japanese as less than human. “Nip”(short for Nippon, which is “Japan” in Japanese), “Jap”, and “yellow” were among the least offensive terms used by almost every American source during the war. More extreme…

scriptures. Everything she did her whole entire life was almost identical to what other Americans did as well, she just had some cultural differences that she also followed because her parents raised her to be a part of both and respect the Japanese culture as well. She thought all those characteristics would make her be an American. That seemed to be all true until the day Pearl Harbor was attacked by Japan. This is when her life slowly started falling apart and who she thought she was, wasn’t…

I believe that the colonial women picked Native Americans customs over the English because the Native Americans women had more privilege then the women in the colonial times. They were also more cherished by their adopted families and given more rights. The first reason that Mary Cole is a great example because she didn’t get the same treatment has her brothers have gotten. While her brothers were learning how to read, write, and do sums; however her and her youngest sister Elizabeth was…

Although one 's identity may seem to be a very personal and individual decision, as we shall examine, there can be many historical, socioeconomic, and sociological factors that can directly or indirectly influence this decision. Just as there is a wide range of experiences and circumstances within the Asian American population, so too can there be many different, overlapping, and simultaneous forms of ethnic identity among Asian Americans. One common example is the ethnic identity of Japanese…

Colony 1816-1898 Hawaii has became known of their sugar cultivation. Sugar became succeeded once Don Francisco de Paula Marin. He succeeded in producing sugar in 1819, which he then completed small-scale manufacture thereafter. The first plantation to hold a good size amount of sugar was laid out in 1825 in…

where we are today and that already is such a huge success because other countries do not the life we are living today. Native Americans were know as “ different” because they their lifestyle was different growing up such as: hunting, the dancing culture and the tongues. Instead of being opened and understand the different ethnicities, they…

citizenship. These Asian Pacific Americans are either the 1st generation or more of Asian Pacific Americans who 's been in America for a period of time. They have adapted to Western (American) culture because exposure to the Western culture, although they have never forgotten their own homeland and its culture, histories, environment, and traditions. Learning or becoming more aware of the early…

During the mid-1850s, a large number of Chinese traversed the Pacific Ocean to the United States for one reason: an apparent guarantee of gold deposits in the mountains of balmy California. Although the guarantee of gold allured the Chinese to California in huge numbers, they were already somewhat acquainted with the West Coast prior to the Gold Rush. Around 1600, they knew enough about the state’s territory to draw a coastal map. History proposes early Chinese pioneers may have traveled to…

From 1941 to 1990, the entire island of Kaho’olawe was used as an arena for US military bombing practice and battle training (http://kahoolawe.hawaii.gov/history.shtml). These decades of bombing practice deteriorated the entire island, rendering it uninhabitable and deprived of vegetation. Kaho’olawe, once a thriving island with a diverse ecosystem, became a desecrated mass of land that native Hawaiians continue to struggle to restore today. In response to these issues, native Hawaiian scholars…