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queers4years · 8 months ago

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Indigenous Hawaiians really had a good system going: wake up reaaally early and do most of the days work while it's cool and by the time the sun was up and it got hot the work was done and you're free to surf and socialize. I wish the white people realized they themselves could work smarter and not harder and get time to relax. Instead of calling Hawaiians lazy (and being genocidal about it)

#Ik this happened in most if not all tropical regions that got colonized #they were so pissed that these 'lazy' people got all sorts of fruit and natural bounty 'handed to them'#when those indigenous people were just working before the colonizers woke up and felt no need to kill themselves in midday heat #Which is what's natural for an apex predator: lazing around #Like u see lions in big cuddle puddles during the hottest part of the day. And they have the privilege of laziness by being the top predato #Idk if lions have a specific time they hunt but ik they will hunt at night when people can't observe them #Also Europeans failed to recognize indigenous agriculture and the /purposeful / cultivation of helpful plants (done w/out clearing the land #And even if they were only foraging. Like. If you love the earth and care for it (and not clear it) the earth will love you back idk #Gah! It's just like we coulda eradicated capitalism in its cradle if Euroamericans werent so arrogant and sure their way of life was correc #Like what if they were explorers and not conquistadors and colonizers. And there was a true cultural exchange #Would it have been better if the Europeans never crossed the ocean (even if they weren't there to colonize)? yeah probably #Like while the disease thing wasn't on purpose (initially) Europeans did inadvertently kill a lot of people bc they had no immunity #But I also acknowledge the human desire to explore and see what's out there #But I wish it was like #Europeans: here's some horses and metal tools #Indigenous people: thanks. Here's a way of life more in harmony with nature and an understanding that we're part of the ecosystem #Europeans: oh cool let me bring these ideas back to Europe. Maybe we won't deforest all of England #(I say Europeans but eventually when Canada and America became independent entities they also were responsible for these things)#Capitalism #capitalism is hell #anti capitalism #Colonization #colonialism #colonial violence #Imperialism #conquistador #age of exploration #anti colonialism #anti colonization #hawaiʻi

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