The Pacific Island of Hawaii is summer all year round, because of its beautiful natural scenery has become a famous tourist attraction in the United States, but the overdeveloped tourism industry has long been intolerable to the natives of Hawaii, especially in the past two years, and more local natives directly shouted to tourists on the Internet: "Don't come here!" ”
Local Hawaiian residents reported that tourists were treated as aristocrats here, and they were treated as second-class citizens. Tourists crowded in front of restaurants, queuing for a meal for 90 minutes, but asking local people to maintain social distancing. Hawaii's Island of Maui requires local residents to conserve water, and car washes, lawn watering and other "non-essential" water use will face a fine of 500 euros, but there is no restriction on water for tourism.
MSN posted on August 24 that the annual influx of tourists and the occupation of land by tourist real estate squeeze the living space of Hawaiian locals, which can be called "new immigrantism", housing costs remain high, and the dilemma of homelessness has not been properly resolved.
Hawaii has the second-highest rate of homelessness in the United States, and while this segment makes up only 10 percent of Hawaii's population, 51 percent of them are Native Hawaiians. This is not only a problem left over from history, but also a problem that needs to be solved urgently for the overdevelopment of modern tourism.
In 1778, the Englishman James Cook discovered this beautiful island in the Pacific Ocean, and since then, Europeans and Americans have set foot on this land, followed by smallpox, tuberculosis, syphilis... These diseases were a disaster for the indigenous people of the isolated island. By 1890, there were fewer than 40,000 Native Hawaiians left. Before the arrival of these colonists, their population size was between 300,000 and 1 million.
The influx of colonists frantically squeezed the living spaces of the indigenous people, condescending to treat the local natives as second-class citizens. Even in modern times, this influence seems to be still there.
In 1893, the United States overthrew the Kingdom of Hawaii, forced the return of the native queen, and merged Hawaii in 1898. In 1959, Hawaii became the 50th state in the United States.
The United States introduced a bill in 1921 to provide cheap housing for Native Americans, for which about 809 square kilometers of land were planned, accounting for less than 3% of the total area of Hawaii. This move seems to be a sincere solution to the housing problem of indigenous residents. However, the bill provides for a precondition that those eligible to apply for housing must prove that they are of pure ancestry ... At least half of the aboriginal ancestry.
Since the mid-19th century, groups of workers from the Philippines, Japan, South Korea and other Asian countries and regions have come to Hawaii to work. Between 1885 and 1924, more than 200,000 people came to Hawaii from Japan alone, which shows the size of the foreign population. The alien population has long since integrated with the indigenous population, and the number of "pure-blooded" indigenous people has been greatly reduced.
Yijun especially wanted to know how to prove that in that era, how to prove that their blood was pure, and the indigenous people of the isolated islands with simple folk customs could have a tradition of registration. After collecting information, it was found that around 1850, that is, after European and American colonists arrived here, colonists gradually incorporated written records into the social system, such as birth certificates, court records, will records, and census records. Therefore, it seems that it can really be found.
Hawaii is tropical and fertile, and agricultural exports once dominated the island's economy. After being annexed by the United States, military fortresses were established here and tourism developed into "neocolonialism".
In 2021, after the United States relaxed its epidemic control measures, a large number of Native Americans came to Hawaii to release their nature (international tourists accounted for less than 2%, and this article is temporarily ignored). In 2021, 6.657 million tourists poured into Hawaii, an increase of 222% year-on-year, approaching pre-pandemic levels. In the first half of this year, 4.08 million people poured in, an increase of 49% over the same period last year, far exceeding pre-epidemic levels.
With the rise of tourism, a large amount of land in Hawaii has been developed into holiday apartments. Airbnb, a U.S. housing short-term rental site, hung up 10,000 such apartments for tourists to rent as early as 2016, and the number is growing every year. The boom in tourism has attracted many non-local residents to invest in and buy houses here, and the real estate market here is hot, and house prices and rents remain high. Statistics show that Hawaii's housing cost index is 2.7 times the U.S. average.
In Maui, most of the houses are non-native investments, and these houses are left uninhabited for most of the year. Some people don't live in empty houses, some people don't have a house to live in.
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