But again, that is not unique. With hindsight it’s easy to say that European colonialism was horrible, and that the vestiges of those practices that remain with us today need to be recognized and removed. But to put a particular blame on “white people” is disingenuous.
I would further suggest that one of the ways that “America’s obsession with hula girls wrecked Hawai’i” is to cast Hawaii as some kind of idyllic Eden before the fall, and Hawaiians as a peaceful, submissive people. This notion gives lie to the true history of Hawaii as @Kaleberg and others have pointed out.
