Limiting number of tourists to help environment

[mgeary]

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Originally posted by Sharlee...I think the point is to preserve a culture that the "white man" has consistently shown no respect for...

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Prejudice comes in many forms. Many "white men" have shown lots of respect for a variety of different cultures. Many haven't, and that's a shame. Just because my skin is pink doesn't mean that you should put me, or anybody who looks like me, in a certain pigeonhole. As you said, maybe you do have the right to think that way, but it doesn't make it right.

I understand and acknowledge what you say, Sharlee. There have been atrocities in the past perpetrated by "white men". It is also a caricature, a simplistic view, to blame all "white men" for the sins of some "white men". For example, slavery existed in America for centuries, but was rejected by "white men" like Abraham Lincoln. The "white men" of Congress and the Supreme Court continued to correct the wrongs of slavery by passing the Civil Rights Act. And progress continues to be made.

In Hawaii, the Hawaiians themselves had slavery, a caste culture, and hideously barbaric "kapu" laws. The white missionaries brought smallpox, a narrow viewpoint, and other negatives. but they made the Hawaiians end their own slavery.

Please don't paint me with the same brush that you paint all "white men", Sharlee, because maybe, just maybe, we're not all the same.

How do I know?