>>99336328Because the US, and by that I mean Dole Pineapple, C+H sugar, and the US millitary came in, overthrew the monarchy, destroyed the entire society, and took all the choice property.
It's one of the reasons why Japan felt justified in attacking in it's "fuck colonialisim" WW2 phase.
>>99336373Because expanding into asia, both for economic reasons, and for white man burden reasons was all the rage. See also, UK in India and SE asia, Europe in China, US in Philipines, and Admrial Perry
Also, Hawaii is the single most important point to control asia to america sea traffic. Russia owning Hawaii would have made a fucking HUGE difference in the cold war.
The more interesting thing is that they made it a state instead of say like Puerto Rico.
>>99340387Because Hawaiian culture isn't oriented precisely to the standard anti colonial
fuck america and fuck white people marxist/lenninist script you see elsewhere. They recognize the importance of all that shit in the economy, and there's a very strong hospitality culture. The form in which the hate shows up is more "fuck the non locals" rather than "fuck the haloes".
There's still no trust that the government and big corps will ever do right by them. Not that that's necessarily a bad thing.
>>99336768I would however expect to see random black people, just because of Hollywood.
