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contrast to the stratified social
system that existed in Hawaii at the
time. As late as 1920, the bulk of
Hawaii's teachers were haole (40
percent), Hawaiian or part-Hawaiian
(25 percent), and Portuguese (12 percent).
21/ After the Normal School
was expanded, however, more Oriental
and Hawaii-trained teachers began
teaching.
C. CRITICISMS OF THE SYSTEM
Critics of the American educational
system point out that native
Hawaiians have been forced into a mold
that does not fit them and that their
identity has been taken from them. 22/
The Native Hawaiians Study Commission
heard much testimony in January
1982 about the need for greater
attention to native Hawaiian
education. One native Hawaiian
criticized the present system in the
following way:
The Americans educational system
has used the schooling process
historically and contemporaneously
as a means to inculcate
American values on Native American
communities, thereby altering
native ways of life.
...The American Protestant
Mission, the plantation system and
industrialism, all are factors
that have combined to establish
American socio-economic order in
these islands with little or no
regard for Native Hawaiian
identity. The school has become
an instrument for the advancement
of American ideology: its
objectives are to deculturate
Native Hawaiians rather than to
acculturate them.
...most Americans understand
what happened in Hawaii history as
a process of acculturation as an
equal two-way sharing process
between Native Hawaiian and
American culture. In [other]
words, the process of cultural
change in Hawaiian American communities
is present in society an
through the educational media a
distorted point of view, the
schools teach "white-American
history" not "native-American
history." As a consequence of
this perspective, acculturation
processes have always been
perceived as a problem for Native
Americans. They are not viewed ir
their proper perspective as
problems which have been imposed
on Hawaiians by Euro-American
culture which has stripped them of
their capacity to control their
own life ways. 23/
In response to these criticisms of
the educational system in Hawaii, the
Commission received comments from the
Superintendent of the State of Hawaii
Department of Education. The Superintendent
states that:
It is intimated that the
educational system in Hawaii
selectively destroyed the Hawaiian
culture as it Americanized the
children of Hawaii. If the
culture were indeed destroyed,
which we do not believe to be
true, the causes have to be so
much more complex than that the
dominant haole or western-oriented
school system did a total brain
wash of the native population.
The churches played a large part
in this as did the centers of
power in mercantilism, commerce
and agribusiness. The other
established ethnic groups could
also complain that the culture of
their respective ancestor
generations who came to Hawaii
were also "destroyed" by the
western-oriented school system of
this Territory which had, rightly
or wrongly, been taken over by the
United States.
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 system that existed in Hawaii at the
 time. As late as 1920, the bulk of
-Hawaii's teachers were haole (40
+Hawaii's teachers were <u>haole</u> (40
 percent), Hawaiian or part-Hawaiian
 (25 percent), and Portuguese (12 percent).
-/ After the Normal School
+<u>21</u>/ After the Normal School
 was expanded, however, more Oriental
 and Hawaii-trained teachers began
 teaching.
 C. CRITICISMS OF THE SYSTEM
 Critics of the American educational
 system point out that native
 Hawaiians have been forced into a mold
 that does not fit them and that their
-identity has been taken from them. 22/
+identity has been taken from them. <u>22</u>/
 The Native Hawaiians Study Commission
 heard much testimony in January
@@ Line 22: / Line 25: @@
 criticized the present system in the
 following way:
 The Americans educational system
-has used the schooling process
+:The Americans educational system has used the schooling process historically and contemporaneously as a means to inculcate American values on Native American communities, thereby altering native ways of life.
 historically and contemporaneously
-as a means to inculcate
+:...The American Protestant Mission, the plantation system and industrialism, all are factors that have combined to establish American socio-economic order in these islands with little or no regard for Native Hawaiian identity. The school has become an instrument for the advancement of American ideology: its objectives are to deculturate Native Hawaiians rather than to acculturate them.
 American values on Native American
-communities, thereby altering
+:...most Americans understand what happened in Hawaii history as a process of acculturation as an equal two-way sharing process between Native Hawaiian and American culture. In [other] words, the process of cultural change in Hawaiian American communities is present in society an through the educational media a distorted point of view, the schools teach "white-American history" not "native-American history." As a consequence of this perspective, acculturation processes have always been perceived as a problem for Native Americans. They are not viewed in their proper perspective as problems which have been imposed on Hawaiians by Euro-American culture which has stripped them of their capacity to control their own life ways. <u>23</u>/
 native ways of life.
 In response to these criticisms of
 the educational system in Hawaii, the
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 Department of Education. The Superintendent
 states that:
 It is intimated that the
-educational system in Hawaii
+:It is intimated that the educational system in Hawaii selectively destroyed the Hawaiian culture as it Americanized the children of Hawaii. If the culture were indeed destroyed, which we do not believe to be true, the causes have to be so much more complex than that the dominant <u>haole</u> or western-oriented school system did a total brain wash of the native population. The churches played a large part in this as did the centers of power in mercantilism, commerce and agribusiness. The other established ethnic groups could also complain that the culture of their respective ancestor generations who came to Hawaii were also "destroyed" by the western-oriented school system of this Territory which had, rightly or wrongly, been taken over by the United States.
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