tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7875069982976812251.post4346580274901131235..comments2023-10-17T04:51:08.765-10:00Comments on KauaiEclectic: Musings: And MeanderingsJoan Conrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00172330100788007499noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7875069982976812251.post-30913001318599125312010-09-27T07:22:53.774-10:002010-09-27T07:22:53.774-10:00Yet more evidence of the ongoing genocide that ste...<i>Yet more evidence of the ongoing genocide that stems directly from colonization and the imposition of a Western diet, values and culture. </i><br /><br />Except that elites in Native Hawaiian society were obese, it being a symbol of their social status.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7875069982976812251.post-19922011956676785532010-09-27T04:57:37.681-10:002010-09-27T04:57:37.681-10:00fish and poi? your readers or dumb commenters just...fish and poi? your readers or dumb commenters just don't get it, fish and poi are healthy foods, spam and sugar, ummm genocide...shouldn't we feed people healthy food? that is the food of choice for hawaiian people as well as what is naturally available here, much better than inported foods, not really a radical idea, just good common senseAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7875069982976812251.post-91316054786035390112010-09-26T21:30:24.511-10:002010-09-26T21:30:24.511-10:00And I got to thinking, what would it take to distr...<i>And I got to thinking, what would it take to distribute fish and poi to Hawaiians through the food pantries?</i><br /><br />And chicken and watermelon to Negroes...<br /><br />what the?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7875069982976812251.post-12269857173765732782010-09-26T20:28:22.346-10:002010-09-26T20:28:22.346-10:00"Native Hawaiians are at greater risk than wh..."Native Hawaiians are at greater risk than whites of dying early.... Yet more evidence of the ongoing genocide that stems directly from colonization and the imposition of a Western diet, values and culture."<br /> An interesting thought and certainly much could be done to improve the health of Hawaiians, but hardly "ongoing genocide." The reality is that Hawaiians, on average, are living more than twice as long as they were before they came into contact with outsiders. Check out Patrick Kirch, "Feather Gods and Fishhooks," graph on p.244.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7875069982976812251.post-34629776211131009952010-09-26T12:56:38.978-10:002010-09-26T12:56:38.978-10:00It's not that "we’ve lost our ability to ...It's not that "we’ve lost our ability to survive in self-contained habitats" so much as we figured out way smarter ways to exist than subsisting off a patch of land. The trick wouldn't be teaching people how to subsist on plots of land. It would be convincing anyone to even want to do so.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7875069982976812251.post-54002647164654459472010-09-26T11:55:53.529-10:002010-09-26T11:55:53.529-10:00we’ve lost our ability to survive in self-containe...<i>we’ve lost our ability to survive in self-contained habitats. A kolea stakes out a patch of grass that’s big enough to provide the food it needs, and it stays there, minding its own business unless another bird intrudes on its territory </i><br /><br />Really? We should stake out a territory big enough to provide the food we need and fight off intruders? That would be an improvement over what, exactly?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7875069982976812251.post-76733572013076786062010-09-26T09:35:25.590-10:002010-09-26T09:35:25.590-10:00I'm not voting for Duke but I like the idea of...I'm not voting for Duke but I like the idea of auditing the DOE, something that should have been done before Lingle performed her cost cutting measures with a meat cleaver instead of a surgeon's scalpel.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com