08-14-2017, 01:55 PM
I had thought it was Catholic missionaries that tried to remove the culture?
Attend a Mormon church sometime. How much Hawaiian culture have they incorporated into the service?
Does that mean the Mormons restored the ancient structures
When the Mormons say on their website:
help build the Polynesian Cultural Center's original 39 structures on a 12-acre site that had previously been planted in taro
they are referring to the original buildings they (the Mormons) constructed. The Polynesian Culture Center has been remodeled, refurbished, and expanded many times since their original construction. There has been no restoration of Hawaiian buildings as there were no Hawaiian buildings on the former taro field.
(It's) what the existentialists called "awful freedom" the reinvention of irrationality by marginalized people, just in order to spite science. -Elif Batuman
Attend a Mormon church sometime. How much Hawaiian culture have they incorporated into the service?
Does that mean the Mormons restored the ancient structures
When the Mormons say on their website:
help build the Polynesian Cultural Center's original 39 structures on a 12-acre site that had previously been planted in taro
they are referring to the original buildings they (the Mormons) constructed. The Polynesian Culture Center has been remodeled, refurbished, and expanded many times since their original construction. There has been no restoration of Hawaiian buildings as there were no Hawaiian buildings on the former taro field.
(It's) what the existentialists called "awful freedom" the reinvention of irrationality by marginalized people, just in order to spite science. -Elif Batuman
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