How the US Conquered Hawaii & Made it 91% Empty 

That’ll be a good Half As Interesting video

Have you realised how he always places emphasis on certain words to make it seem bigger. like he doesnt just use the word "vastly' he uses the word a GIGANTIC ENOURMOUS AMOUNT of times more than other channels

Very clickbaity, imo

he loves making vast videos too

Maybe there are vastly reasons for that.

I think the people of Nunavut would like that a lot, because we all know they have a lot of people and the population density is obviously very high

im in canada

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@@alphamanticore2344I’d like to see a video of Nunavut. It’s probably the least popular state/province/territory in North America.

Thanks for sharing from the Island. I am always interested in people living authentic lives

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I understand what you mean for I love the same type of natural environment... In fact, I'd love to go back to those islands... and stay for long there!! I've written a couple of "stories" from my visit by 1980 and both of them tell of the beautiful hawaiian people I met there because they were HUMBLE and GENTLE! That is what really matters about "places". One of the situations took place in Kauai - visiting the fern-grotto cave - and the other near Hanauma Bay - entering the Devil's Eye - 👍🤣

I WISH YOU AND YOUR THE VERY BEST!

I used to live in Pahoa and went to school in Hilo, I thought exactly the same thing. It’s not packed but it is certainly not empty.

Also, food. Malasadas became an icon in Hawaiian cuisine and Portuguese sausage.

And gave us the word podagee also 😂

Ukulele the Hawaiian word reflects the type of music it produced when they listened to it. Comes from the Hawaiian word.. Uku-- flea Lele-- jump,hop,skip,fly. Yup- produced music sounding or movement like a jumping, skipping ,hopping, or flying flea.🤣😅👍 Must of and still is alot of fun to listen to what kind of music they produced.😁

@@LeKo-wo7bv The fingers "jumping around" on the strings and fret board made them think of fleas.

So I guess the Americans are the villains because? The natives killed in slaughtered each other for years as Noble warriors. So tired of the one-sided. Mostly friendly. Natives virtuous

It's actually underpopulated in terms of land area. (Not that Kauai could support a larger population, it really can't without serious infrastructure changes which would hurt the character of the island). I do projects on Kauai and most of the pushing out of the locals are because people are building homes they aren't even living in over there... It's kinda infuriating to watch. :/

Ugh, I'd hate for Kauai to end up covered in a concrete jungle like Oahu. It's such a beautiful place. I lived on Oahu for 3 years, and it felt way too crowded and somewhat artificial. I'd take weekend trips any chance I could to get out to the other islands, and I tell people to this day that you haven't really seen Hawaii unless you've gotten away from Oahu. All that said. Kauai is my favorite island by far. I have some good memories at Barking Sands.

73,000 is small in comparison to Oahu is the point he was making in the video. Pretty much all of the islands have been experiencing big population bursts from ppl in the mainland unfortunately which he wouldn't be able to really cover in the video. Even Molokai has been having a lot of haoles coming to the island.

What about the rich landowners in Kauai? Don't they disproportionately own a lot of the land?

It's all about WHERE the people are. Japan has crazy dense populations in certain areas, while there are massive swaths of untouched land. He's just speaking in terms of overall density based on land area

At that point I think it's just spite- "This native people can have their sovereign nation on these islands, but we'll be damned if we let the Spanish Bastards take an inch of land!"

I mean, the same thing happened with the British American Civil war, where the British "wanted" to allow American Indians to keep land whereas America wanted to well, do a colonialism and take all of the land for themselves, massacres be damned.

The problem is Hawaii has a geographical isolation (the Pacific Ocean), the Falklands were still in the sphere of influence of the naval empire that was the British Empire (the Atlantic Ocean). Also Britain could not really take advantage of this strategic location, at this point, Britain didnt really have much going for it. The American west coast is mainly occupied their rival, the U.S.; British Columbia was not so important of a trade hub when the French has locked them in from much Atlantic trade with Quebec, and Australia was a penal colony that did most of their trade through the Cape. The Hawaiian crown also emulated everything about the British royal court and visited the Queen in London in a grand worldwide journey, an endeavor most monarchs would not go about doing. The British admired that an exotic kingdom on the other side of the world would do so and also Victoria felt humbled by meeting these royals that looked up to them for civilization rather than the other way around when a larger empire would have to forcefully impose civilization to foreign barbarians.

We would have gone to war with Spain or France over a gust of wind. And rightly so

Great Britain and Hawaii have historically very close ties. Britain was Hawaiis closest ally. Their relationship is reflected in the Hawaiian flag as it closely resembles the British flag.

we had 2 battery groups just off of Lahaina as my friends and neighbors were murdered...the Navy stood down. and I'm a 12 year Naval combat vet.. GO NAVY

@@MisterClear-yc3on Aloha Shipmate.

Is that the origin of the khamahamaha power blast from DBZ that Goku does

@@cool_gabe I don’t think it’s a direct reference to this man, no. “Kame” means turtle in Japan and it’s supposed to be a reference to the Turtle Hermit (Roshi)

​@@1in6winthat's the pun

​​@@1in6winactually kame house was a random Island 🏝️

yooooooooooooooooooooooooo i get it now @@markgutierez9922

I guess, but the balkans already get enough attention. That’s not a bad thing, but I would like to learn abt more history about stuff outside the western/ European sphere

@@Dynamic241 balkans are the unknown of europe lol

@@Dynamic241 The balkans aren't part of the western world

@@nickmacinic4869 but there European, that’s why I said western/European

@@pey850 I guess, most of Eastern Europe is unknown but I’ll prefer learning abt a actual under represented part of history

Divest all the land of the billionaires in Hawaii

Too late. Holds property on Maui.

All those scumbags colonizing hawaii and youre worried about oprah?

Why? Oprah is a good woman.

Racist

Maybe planes, trains, and automobiles made people not rely on the Mississippi River too much?

when i lived in louisiana i remember hearing about how the state makes LOTS of money off of natural resources, which confused me considering the roads were terrible, the public places were poorly funded, and everyone around me was poor. going to school you would see houses in various stages of decomposition as they sunk into the ground or the roofs fell into themselves. almost everyone lived in a trailer too and lived off of food stamps ☹

Id bet the Jones act has a lot to do with it. It requires all cargo between two US ports to be sailed on US made ship and majority US crew. There are almost no ships that meet that actually meet those requirements these days. It has basically cratered our domestic shipping industry.

The Mississippi River was only really relevant during the advance westwards and the various booms that occurred. It's no longer a booming area, mostly rural with people deep set in their ways, therefore the economy doesn't grow. So the river which is also their greatest asset, is also their greatest curse.

@@soliloquy5995there is a lot of river transport on the Mississippi. It is mostly farm products being exported from the Midwest.

There was zero reason to 'start from the beginning'.. Kinda annoying. The title should represent the video.

​@vincentmansell5374 Eh, I think in order to understand "how" the US conquered hawaii it would require an explanation of how it all started. Which is the beginning. Minus the mispronouciations of various hawaiian words it was a well informed video.

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Way to much history

​@@user-iz7ky7vx1utrue but it's still interesting to hear about

and the massive geoengineering operations. ionospheric heaters..and the weapons platforms..then there's the attack on Lahaina....which has ruined Maui forever.

It feels like his name should be shouted slowly and ending in a world shaking shout.

Dragon Ball Flashbacks 😎

Funnily enough, that's what Akira Toriyama named the move after; the name of Hawaii's king

🤣 hardy hardy ha!

​@@Z3t487Literally what came to mind lol. DBZ creator heard this dude's name and was like "this shall be the name of the ultimate power move" 😅

It's the algoritm chasing you! Just kidding 😂

Heck yeah, same here

I was thinking about a movie I hadn’t watched in years and it appeared on my feed 😂

RU-vid *is* owned by Google, too. That is no coincidence lmao.

You know Google owns RU-vid so Google looks at everything you do and search and they recommend other things so you will consume them and also ads. We are all being watched all the time.

I haven’t been to Hawaii, but I thought about this several times throughout the video based on some of the history presented here. I’m sure you are gorgeous and just know you are special!

44:05 race mixing is "a historic tragedy". Apparently RLL is a ethno-nationalist now. 😅

You sound really ignorant and liberal educated with your nonsense. The west are not the only ones to see things by race. Asians very much divide people by ethnicity which is the same difference. Even africans do. South americans do. In fact these days black people have a new word, colorism. It means to divide people by skin tone, Which they claim black people do a lot. As for his population stats, The last population stats he gave was a hundred years ago or longer And no, the populations were mixing to such a degree that it's irrelevant to keep the stats divided. The population would have still been very much segregated because of culture With little mixing. For sure, there would be some mixing because guys will screw any girl that they think is pretty. But you are overplaying it. Especially where the plantation and therefore, the plantation workers would be compared to the population of natives. Mixing would have sped up more decades later as the workers settled and had children that expanded beyond the plantations. He didn't give the stats that late in the history because it wasn't relevant. Not that your point is relevant at all because the only point of the stats is the relevance to the conflict between America, Hawaii, and Japan. Japan would see their people as different from the natives, even with mixing, because ethnicity is very important to Asians. And the Japanese aren't Anglo, so don't have an Anglo informed view of race. I get it you've been raised under a liberal school system. So you're not very educated. But you've been lied to. Japan is not a race by the way. It is an ethnicity, so your diatribe that just needed to mention that we invented race was irrelevant because it wouldn't apply here.

Thank you for educating us on this I didn't know this

U do realize that on the "anglo" islands alone there are different ethnicities that can be mixed right? Or do u just see "white" as one race, like most dumb americans?

Just to piggyback for anyone curious: It should be pronounced closer to “kuh-MAY-huh-MAY-huh”

​@@johnkeefer8760AMEN!

@@johnkeefer8760 That's more fun to say

Nah if he was pronouncing it like a Saiyan would, it would have taken three RU-vid videos to say it.

Yeah but people in Hilo pronounced it that way long before DBZ existed...same way most locals say "Hawaii" and not "Hava'ii"

That’s vastly on full display..

Why sadder for them than for most of the rest of us, also priced out of living in Hawaii?

@@user-nt5gh2kh1e yes there is… Europe, Africa, Asia has native people just like the Americas had and has with the Native Americans.

​@@user-nt5gh2kh1ewoke lies.

@@Michelle-rdz17 So basically nonwhite inhabitants of a place by the time Europeans arrived. Google has this definition marked as offensive you know. Do better

They have mosquitos galore now. It's not exactly paradise anymore.

I just don't get how he comes with that 91% figure. Seems like a random number just for the title of the video.

@@soundscape26 video title got changed for clickbait. I don't have an accurate figure for that either.

@@deykuzor Thanks. And labelling all other islands as being empty as well. It's a bit sad that a guy with 7M+ subs still have to resort to clickbait.

crazy seeing this comment here! I went to UH for archaeology but don't work in archaeology anymore. do you work CRM? with who if so?

@@TheWooka20 I do work with CRMs but I am independent. I take contract work as a writer or a field guy with CRMs who need extra bodies by way of signing a contract. I used to work for several CRMs over the years or do federal work though so I've worked with the military, the national parks, public utilities and transit, and the private sector now.

Same!!!!

Guam as well.

No thanks. I can imagine a bunch of Chinese bots coming to that video saying "free Okinawa" "Okinawa should be independent" or something like that.

​@@tsdfghjklthat's no reason to avoid making the video.

@@tsdfghjkl I mean.... a free Okinawa is probably the only way they could hope of salvaging some of their culture from total assimilation.

Hey, are you doing alright? I hope you and your family are safe and sound, and same with your friends. Much love from Kauai 🩷

And you know of its accuracy by the way they grossly mispronounce Hawaiian words.

Thanks!

Molokai-ee

​@@RayzeR_RayESome people from Molokai argue that historically there was no okina at the end of the word and the dictionary entry was a mistake. So he gets a pass on that one.

Kamay-hamay-ha

@@paula889not trying to sound rude but isn’t it taught that all double vowels are separated by an okina

Are you one of those fvckers that keep making all the noises on the weekends in Chinatown? Keep it down!!! I'm trying to get my beauty sleep.

Yeah, I’ve heard the island’s name pronounced many MANY weird ways in my life, but this was a first. Generally the emphasis is also on the “law” syllable.

@@BlueSunHiredGun Bra! and he said it so many times! cringed every time haha

It was a really funny (painful) tick that would pop up now and then. But, eh, can't blame him too much.

King Kamehameha was pronounced funny as well...

Interesting, Hawaiians pronounce W's the same way German's do

They sent 'em to *Molokai* too.

Not many governments. It was only Hawaii residents with leprosy who were sent there. And it was only one town on Molokai, which was low ground isolated from the rest of the island by high cliffs.

The leper colony was on a flat peninsula named Kalaupapa and isolated from the rest of the island of Moloka'i by high cliffs negotiated on mule back.

Makes sense. It's fun for 3 weeks. but gets old..

It works if you LOVE the ocean. Island life gets old for people who are used to life on the mainland. Instead of being able to hop in a car and travel to 100's of destinations you really only have a few options no matter which Hawaiin island you are on. Also there aren't really seasonal changes, which again makes things a bit more monotonous. Had one set of relatives though move to Nevada where the summers are 90f and the winter high averages is low 40's. Curious how long before they are back.

Yes, very true.

@@WCSmith-vr3fx Laughing Out Loud!

It is always the case; paradise, anywhere, is a place to visit not to lived on it.

Cracked

Guess you only watched the first 2 minutes of the video and extrapolated from there

​@@Fourside__man's gotta pay his bills and this his job

Not even the interesting part

You left out the other major TLDW: The fact that Oahu has Pearl Harbour, which is the perfect location to set up a major naval base in the middle of the Pacific, which brought all sorts of activity and development, especially in the nearby city of Honolulu.

Read the rest of American history tf😂

For real lol. Which part was not heartbreaking and tragic?

A majority of your country’s history into the present is literally appalling lol

Happens all over actually. Any place where money starts to flow in will displace the local residents. You see it in many ski towns, resort destinations, and anywhere ex-Californians migrate.

@@NONO-hz4vo Yeah that’s literally capitalism btw.

Thanks

according to Wikipedia, it only has about ~160 people living there, with no power lines (only solar) or sewage. All fresh water comes from rain fall and its even evacuated when not enough water has fallen.

@@jaer.6540 yeah I know. It’s got way more people than Kahoolawe. I don’t want others to think it’s a private island without people.

As of last year, it is less than 60 something. These people leave to work, and they do not come back. The population WILL disappear within a decade or 2 at most.

@@prst99 and WAY WAY more than Kaho'oalawe wich... doesn't even exist lol

@@pdraggy Niihau is an actual community and not like Jeffrey Epstein’s private island.

That is why a bridge will never be built between them. It would be physically impossible.

Question though, did you only measure the eight main islands (Big Island to Ni’ihau) or did you measure the entire Hawaiian archipelago including the over 100 smaller islands down the line?

the islands themselves are very small compared to most western states. i can go out my front door and literally see 600sqmi of land. the equivalent to oahu.

@@____Carnage____ It did only use the islands pictured in the video, so Ni'ihau to Hawai'i (I think?)

I literally thought Hawaii is about the size of Canary islands

I imagine the popularity of a certain anime is to blame for this

@@Flaming_Pulsar The problem is sometimes Goku will say it in a long dramatic way to indicate building up a big blast. KAaa Meeh .... Ha Meeeeeh.... HAAAAAAAA! If a great king has to have a namesake in pop culture ... an epic world shattering attack sounds about right.

@HontasFarmer80 That's exactly what I mean. Although when the attack is referenced rather than used, it is pronounced correctly. Still, naming am attack after a great king is pretty cool

Blame DBZ lol

Glad someone answered this. I wasn’t sure if I was wrong and he did his research or I was right

While your basic point is true, I think you need to temper that (I can't tell for I mentally caused a pun there) with the overall risk of volcanic activity on the Big Island.

I live in Kona 😂 and love it.

The big island is my favorite. The locals, both native and non- native are not so overwhelmed by crowds that it seems they as a whole are more friendly and easy going. I certainly would not claim that the big island is desolate.

@@BlisterBang Not much volcanic risk on most of the Big Island of Hawaii. Mostly just the SE corner of the huge island or near the active volcano there.

For the price of 300 houses :D

It’s a lot of work though

I have a small patio

I hope it stays in the family. However, if there’s valuable resources on that island, someone will find a way to take it .

@@GMAMEC If the USA wants the resources on those privately owned islands, it's going to get them.

Note: Hawai'i was never legally annexed. There are no signed treaties of annexation between the Kingdom of Hawai'i and the United States.

​@@kalaiolele8796it's called conquest. No papers needed when u have a military multiple times in strength to the "other" military. It's a sad fact that the native people on Hawai'i have been used (sometimes brutally), but we should focused on healing and treating the native people's.

@@kalaiolele8796usa not subject to global law and the oppressive warring and caste nature of the indigenous was exposed and taken advantage of. No land was “stolen”.

@@DASBIGUN “it’s called”________ Anytime you see this written or spoken ; everything that follows is from a poorly educated person - trying to grapple with concepts that are far outside their comprehension.

@@vincentsnow8436 look who's talkin

* Both are popular tourisr destination. * On both some of the largest telescopes in the world are located.

Employment also brings people to live nearby, for example US Military and Pearl Harbor.

Flagstaff is wetter because it snows. Living in the snow requires a different lifestyle. From keeping a shovel and snow tires to a simple window scraper. It’s easier to not deal with that, it shows with the population demographic leaning to higher than average retired or near retiring ages.

Flagstaff has a lot of forests surrounding it. I don't see it being a geographically viable option. I mean, neither is Phoenix, because of the drought of the Colorado River and hotter summers. But I think there are more reasons than Phoenix having an airport

@@Sthasn your comment is totally invalidated by the fact that many, many people live in the northeast, including some of the most populous cities in the US. Ever been to Chicago in the winter? Boston? NYC?

@@DragonCaptain before the airport and the military bases were established, Phoenix was a three-stoplight town with dirt roads. There’s a reason the whole dirty looks like it was built in the last 30 years, it actually was.

I came here to say this. It was painful listening to the multiple Hawaiian words that were mispronounced.

OMG, WTF? How can anyone know nothing about where they live? How incredibly insulting to Hawai'i's history, our culture, our religion, our kanaka maoli. I only hope your a snow bird, that doesnt truly "live" in Hawaii. You have no business living in Hawai'i without understanding what's going on around you. This is not the resource btw- read! Learn about the place you "claim" you live in. There's no excuse for stupidity. You are a guest at best, even those of us who's relative's bones are buried here are guests. DO you even live by the state motto? Doubtful.

KA*-ho-O-la-vey

also pretty sure it's King Ka-MEHA-meha, not KA-me-hame-ha

@@SeeJayPlayGames More like ka MAY ha MAY ha from what I've been told. These videos meant to inform us should inform themselves first!

Woah, that’s cool.

Go to bed

Real words 😅

lol. U mean the conquerors came after the natives slaughters each other and created a kingdom.

@@sheevhernandez3869dude no. Educate urself. They slaughtered each other then. A strong empire came and made them effective. Hawaiian Kingdom was a joke, and only existed for five seconds.

How many title edits happened? When I first clicked this video, I swear it was called something like "Why Hawaii is 91% empty."

Pack any as many people into the smallest area possible so they politically can't stop you from stealing land.

What do you mean by "Nevada population" , "Illinois population" , ect.?

​@@celiabrickell2500Nevada, Illinois's state's population. Duh

In Europe, the divide between city and country was even more extreme. Due to constant wars, farm land near cities was prized. Hawaii and other cities like New York should do the same. Supply lines sometimes fail. The ability to grow food on land or have clean fresh drinking water close at hand should be paramount in importance. Im living in a two acre sprawl development mess outside of NYC. Yes, the natives have been mostly displaced. The farm land mostly developed. More toxic pestacides per acre than farm land are spread for lawns in an area supplying drinking water to others and that gets its water largely from wells. We could use a few high rise buildings here , take down the sprawling ranch homes and put the land in conservation for passive forest farming/organic farming and watershed, tourism use. Our zoning wont allow buildings over 40 feet. Hawaii should do the same. Natives should start building up in their communities creating green high rise communities and restore or conserve the land around the buildings as green spaces. By renting the top floors for tourism, they can recoup the cost and buy up more land to build and conserve. In Greece, the landowners work with builders who raise their single family homes on to the top of the high rise buildings. Its a bit comical to see! -but they dont have to sell out and own rentable appartments out of the deal. The builder gets to build without first buying the land so has a better financial picture for the actual building to be built. They don't require so much borrowing then and can get the loan to build without capital. Its been a win win for land owner and builder. If natives work together, pool rescources, they could do the same. Maybe create native only investment corporations whose goal is to create housing ownership for all native families involved. The trick is to gain control of a large contiguous piece of land so voting on local laws for projects to move forward will be easier. Drafting petitions to United States government and the UN to have areas returned or protected as native lands might be possible due to history of misappropriation. Drafting a plan for conservation and development of areas that would be feasible might ve a first stem. I would also hope that the huge holdings by a few ultra wealthy individuals might be passed for reasons like tax incentives back to the natives, at least in part. The rest being held for conservation and farming purposes. Having a single owner of a large estate as it is now, has held many areas free of sprawl and destructive development. There are other natives concerned here too, the wild life. Things can change very rapidly upon death of an individual large land owner. The time to act is now.

Obviously, Goku was here.... And Master Roshi before him, here he learned unique KAMEHAMEHA

pronounced... yokooska... usn 89-91...cv41

update..Blackrock just bought it and are turning it into a shopping district..I worked there as a boy

Kaho’olawe had me dying 😂

​@@dariussoohoo For real! Had to stop the video a couple of times to collect myself. Even had to skip ahead only to hear it a second later! Would help a little bit if they included the okina to know where it breaks. Again, no shame! It's like when folks say Likelike as "like like". Just need a local or a native speaker on how it's correctly pronounced.

Sounds like a issue the state government could address

I’d love for him to say Humuhumunukunukapua’a

lol the hawaii state government dont give a shit, they profit off of local kama'aina moving, they get kickbacks from foreign and mainland land developers building new subdivisions to attract even more mainlanders to move out to hawaii into high cost houses that locals wont be able to afford@@AL-lh2ht

*Kaua'i. But I'm glad you think the Garden Isle is kawaii!

HAWAIIAN BREAKFAST FOR 4 4 1lb. bags of poi. $40 1 lb. dried aku/ahi $35 1 lb. lomi salmon $ 9 Drink water. __0_ $84. Hawaiians had one of the healthiest diets b4 McDonald's 😂👍 Good for breakfast and snax at the beach. No foam cooler needed. 👍😅

@@LeKo-wo7bv we went to IHOP

4 Buffet Breakfast at all of the larger Hotels is going to cost $40 per person and is a very good selection of food. Same costs in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Everything is expensive here, don’t even get us started on gas or house prices

Indigenous people of Alaska also . What the US govt did to Natives of Hawaii and Alaska and the early white European immigrants did to Indigenous people of North America is egregious at best. Sickening .

They would have been poorer without us

@@home_def That's their choice to make not ours. Also come visit Hawaii and tell me that it's not poor. Highest homeless rate per capita, an economy dependent on tourism, the 2nd most expensive state to live in and we're constantly hit with natural disasters from hurricanes to volcanos. Very weak argument you have here.

🤡@@home_def

He uses the oil icon as well, which I always enjoy seeing as well (: