One of the stupidest things anyone can tell us Pasifika is "Be grateful". The only ppl that can tell me this are those who provided me with life, my parents, AND THEY WOULDN'T. I didn't ask to be colonized. I didn't ask for citizenship. Nobody asked for that opinion either.
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What they are telling us to be grateful for: -no healthcare -no free college -student loans galore -crippling debt -minimum wage FAR below cost of living -a HIGH cost of living -historical erasure -cultural erasure -desecrated ancestral sites -CAPITALISM -guns -systemic racism
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-eminent domain that is basically theft -bombing FDM and Pågan -high rates of poverty among locals -few community building programs -a wasteful unsustainable lifestyle -pimping out our islands to cheap tourists who leave their trash behind, cause accidents, & damage reefs
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