Our ancestors were not perfect people. What is cultural "perfection" anyway? Westernized concepts of efficiency & progress do not apply to cultures. Although improvement isn't a bad thing, who gets to judge it & what do they have to gain? Is it how we want to represent ourselves?
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Replying to @Lani4Pasifika
I think Western think places emphasis on materialism and concepts of time that did not exist in indigenous Pasifika cultures.
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Replying to @adamkeawe
Yes for sure! Materialism. Time. Colorism. Racism. Prejudice. Blood quantum. Sexism. Ableism. Classism. Consumerism. Unattachment to land and traditional values. Progression towards "bigger/better" and that progress is always the goal. Dissatisfaction with what you have. Ugh
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Replying to @Lani4Pasifika
Indeed. Look at historiography. The West always centers itself on material culture i.e. buildings and linear chronologies. Hawaiian traditional histories were centered on the land, genealogies, on capturing emotions, values, and on the past revisiting the present.
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I'm imagining that ancestral passage of time being marked pre-colonization must have been so much more beautiful and culturally significant. I can't help but to idealize it.
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