 Today's Hawaiian
>> <robefortu1@nojunk> wrote in >>message
>> There were a million Hawaiians >>flouishing in Hawaii before the
>>Europeans introduced their foreign >>diseases etc. Hawaiians would not die.
okamuraj wrote:
>I thought we were talking about the >present, not the past.
<robefortu1@nojunk> wrote
>> I thought we were talking about the >>ability of a people to survive. Our
>>best
>> estimation is past experience.
okamuraj wrote
>Past experience that ignores the present >is not a good indicator of the
>future in my opinion.
Present day Hawaiians are not dying off. They are morphing into a new Hawaiian
who is of mixed ancestry. Do you believe
present day Hawaiians are dying off? One
might say this of "pure" Hawaiians but not
for all present day Hawaiians.
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