Noah Dolim

I mean, you can look at that word hospitality in two ways.

Like you mentioned, there's like the tourism version of hospitality in which I think there's some expectations for Hawaiians to act in a certain way, you know, providing for their guests and kind of being at the whim, but that's very much in the kind of touristic expectations.

But it is a value that is embedded within our culture and hospitality.

making sure that your guests have food, are safe, have culture.

The Hawaiian Kingdom was a very inclusive space for foreigners, including it's a very small population, but even there was

People who had escaped from slavery or former slaves who ended up in the Hawaiian kingdom.

The Hawaiian kingdom didn't practice slavery.

Yes, especially in the 1840s, Commandment of the Third starts allowing or chooses to involve former missionaries, new foreigners to serve in the Hawaiian government.

As ministers, as lawyers, as judges.

And so some of these effects on legislation and the way things are run in the country are definitely influenced by foreigners.

You had one major shift prior in the 1860s under Commandment V.

The Fifth saw particularly the United States as a problem.

So he actually wanted to move the Hawaiian kingdom back towards his grandfather's vision of being more aligned with the British.

But you had this influx of foreigners serving in politics and that eventually would...

lead or be a big part of the downfall of the hawaiian kingdom yeah and was that done willingly on the hawaiians part or was that a forced issue by by outside interests that people would be serving within the government that was willing uh willingly and of course that's we we benefit from the from hindsight it's 2020 right but the understanding was you know

Especially in the early part of the constitutional monarchy in the 1830s and 1840s, when you're trying to build out this system that is taking bits and pieces, or not bits and pieces, but major pieces of American and European law, they needed people who were trained in American or European law.

Yeah.

It made sense on the part of the chiefs to invite these lawyers or people who had been educated in the West to serve in these positions, even if they weren't all as qualified.

I won't get too far into it, but there's some instances where they literally were picking people who had no qualifications in a particular area, but they had got to school in the US or in Europe.

It was definitely the Hawaiian kingdom trying to put people in the right places, but it didn't always work out for the benefit of Hawaiian people in the Hawaiian kingdom.