Overthrowing a Kingdom | Hawaii

Hawaii went from a kingdom, to a republic, to a state in under 200 years. Unlike previous conquests, the series of events that lead to annexation is far more confusing than you might imagine.
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Thanks to TierZoo for explaining the mongoose:
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Vowell, S. (2011). Unfamiliar Fishes. New York: Riverhead Books.
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[@KnowingBetter]

I didn't announce this on KZbin, but Wheatley passed away from cancer 2 months ago. The Death Anxiety video was his final farewell. I'd also really like to thank TierZoo for helping me explain the rather hilarious mongoose situation in Hawaii. 😂

[@lukejennings6477]

you gained 100,000 subscribers in 1 or 2 weeks. Congrats!

[@NormanMStewart]

Knowing Better I miss that time he talked in an English accent once. RIP Wheatley.

[@handsomesquidward121]

Condolences!! Pet deaths are the worst ☹️

[@narata1541]

Oh no! I'm sorry about Wheatley's passing.

[@ilokikoval]

Press F to pay respects.

[@DSQueenie]

Hawaii, the first land mass Britain didn’t want... for some reason.

[@GFSLombardo]

Gave up Hawaii but keeps the Falklands? Go figure... ..................

[@DSQueenie]

🤷🏽‍♀️

[@jonathanwoo9829]

if the British didnt want it why does the flag have the union jack? and the hawaiians granddaughter named after Victoria, and the first hawaiian bank was started by bishop which would later be a hawaiian queens last name? hawaii is british controlled it's so obvious.

[@wiijjdog]

@@jonathanwoo9829 Did you watch the video..?

[@StevioGaming1]

Jonathan Woo someone clearly didn’t watch this video 😂

[@generalgunner]

The U.K.: Known for colonizing literally anything. Hawaii: Want to be British Protectorate. The British: No.

[@Shaw4123]

General Gunner I wonder why they didn’t accept Hawaii

[@Yanramich]

South Georgia Island: *yas* Hawaii: *nay*

[@iamhungey12345]

RUN! THE CAPTAIN's COOKED!

[@AndyJarman]

The British parliament rejected Australia too. An argument for colonising was that the Norfolk Island pine trees, would make good ship's masts and the New Zealand flax plant would make good sail cloth. Both resources (neither of which grow on the island of Australia) were seen as useful for repairing the British fleet in its attempt to move into the east Asia trade market. Eventually parliament was persuaded, but only one set of sails was ever made from New Zealand flax and the Norfolk Island pine's trunk was too weak, knotty and brittle to make masts with. There's a lot of bitter and angry rhetoric being promulgated about the conduct of successful Western nations by modern universities in the west today. It serves a far left Marxist inspired attempt to build a better world by systematically tearing down the existing system of values. Unlike old style Marxism, the new guard just assume that by 'smashing the patriarchy' something better is bound to 'come along'. News flash folks, Western liberal democracy is the best anyone has been able to come up with. Destroying it (warts and all) is just going to open the door for all the old ways to return. See Jordan Peterson's videos here on you tube.

[@Fuji808]

@@AndyJarman ok boomer

[@josephr1421]

Hawaii:gets rid of religion Missionaries: "it's free real estate"

[@sandernielsen8018]

And everything seemed to turn into shit. I would love to go to Hawaii if it had been under Hawaiian rule just like the Philippines are under Philippine rule, instead of the god damn mess that is todays Hawaii.

[@IRussian007]

I laughed. Underrated comment.

[@flowonthego]

@@sandernielsen8018 Oh boy, the Philippines are a mess and a beautiful one.

[@nicolasgodines1129]

@@sandernielsen8018 To be fair, it was the rich white people who came after the missionaries who fucked it up. The missionaries were just trying to help put. But I agree that Hawai'i needs to be under Kanaka Maoli control.

[@morgan3688]

@@sandernielsen8018 Something tells me you know little of the Phillipine state of affairs...

[@jakejustvibing5811]

Weeaboos at the bottom of the caste system was so epic lmao

[@impogi7072]

weeaboos rise up

[@jonathanwells223]

Impogi707 wait they can’t because they’re too fat

[@brupper9023]

@@jonathanwells223 nice stereotype :thumbs_up:

[@carso1500]

@@jonathanwells223 it's already too late, while you were trapped in your false sence of security thinking we could barely move from our chairs we mobilized, we formed a united front and we have already taken the means of production, the next step is to depose the goverment Weeaboos rise up

[@EmmaPie13]

Kamehameha?

[@TierZoo]

This was such a fun collab!

[@yamiyugi2894]

notice me senpai

[@ffnovice7]

TierZoo where did you get the WEARU sound effect when something takes damage?

[@rtgbrotherbert]

Ayyy!!!

[@hikingpete]

Your videos are amazing on their own, but it's almost like the format is built for colab. This was beyond amazing.

[@elmikeomysterio5496]

TierZoo holy nuts! I love your videos, great to see y'all work together.

[@markboudreault4560]

Turning into a pineapple is literally the worst power.

[@marcopohl4875]

I think he's actually switching positions with the pineapple

[@combativeThinker]

The ability to switch positions with any pineapple on earth... That's a janky, but potentially broken, power.

[@April_a26]

@@marcopohl4875 maybe he's linked with a tree or something

[@av3r3st24]

Gabe Helmy wants to know your location.

[@generalgrievous2202]

@@combativeThinker imagine you are fighting someone in a fruit market you see a pineapple switch positions with it and get them from behind, that is how that power is useful or for escaping i guess.

[@AlexanderSpear]

Went to Hawaii twice. Once as a tourist, the second as a boyfriend to a woman who grew up there. Two COMPLETELY different experiences.

[@badugm5035]

@@The.Hawaiian.Kingdom good joke lol.

[@badugm5035]

@@The.Hawaiian.Kingdom states can't leave the union according to the constitution. Even if you got the UN to recognise the kingdom of hawaii as an occupied nation (which will be pretty much impossible), the US won't voluntarily give Hawaii up.What's the UN gone do? Write the US a very stern letter 😂

[@highcouncil1302]

@@The.Hawaiian.Kingdom hey moron you realize that International law is a meaningless joke right furthermore you don't need a treaty to Annex territory the kingdom of Hawaii's dead and has been for a long time

[@mirthless5603]

@@The.Hawaiian.Kingdom I commend you in your efforts for freedom.

[@carterdc3576]

Aloha Hawaii was annexed, made a territory and then made a state. The overthrowing of the Hawaii Queen was completely illegal, but the actual process of annexation wasn’t. I’m not sure what has happened in recent years, but a large percentage of the population would want to secede, which many don’t. Being a US state is more beneficial to Hawaiians then being an independent country.

[@thevenbede767]

I'm from Washington and we had Japanese internment camps. I went to uni in Iowa and it surprised me how many students didn't know about Japanese internment camps and the history classes at uni didn't emphasize it as much as we did in Washington

[@Pretermit_Sound]

I lived in Seattle for a few years, and went to college there. I remember going to the Washington State Fair (it might even have still been called the Puyallup Fair at that time), down at the Puyallup Fairgrounds. I come from a military family on my dad’s side, which included 5 WW2 vets, so I’m very familiar with the history of that era. When I told the group of friends I was with that the Puyallup Fairgrounds had been used as a Japanese Internment Camp, they almost didn’t believe me until I found somebody who worked for the local historical society, and he was able to confirm it. Most of my friends who were with me were from the Seattle-Tacoma area of Washington originally (I’m from NE Minnesota), and had never known there was something like this in there own backyard at one time. Very troubling to know this stuff isn’t being taught as much anymore 😞

[@hippolytabaker9559]

Washington lifer here, we spent as much time learning about Japanese internment in middle school as we did about slavery and the KKK and the Holocaust. I first learned about Camp Harmony from a random Washington trivia book that the church I attended as a kid sold on a book table before services, and that was when I was in elementary school.

[@nikkiiv9259]

I live in California, I literally participated in an opera about Japanese internment camps lmao

[@user-sg8kq7ii3y]

It's because white America is ashamed of that part of history, so they don't teach it in schools. What they also don't teach in American History classes is that, out of those Japanese internment camps, came the warriors of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, aka "The Purple Heart Battalion", the most decorated unit in U.S. military history. They fought the Germans and spilled lots of blood for the United States of America, the very country that held them and their parents in prisons.

[@jthuffman513]

I seen how harsh summers & brutal winds out of nowhere hit hard.75-85mph.like turbulent at 5000 ft.here in Wyoming.The Japanese Americans that had been in these interment camp here was pure hell.

[@viperblitz11]

TierZoo took me off guard. You really don't expect some youtubers to know about each other, much less reach out to each other for a collab.

[@FeliX-TobiYahs-C]

Me too, I discovered both of these by *chance* so it's *extremely coincidental*..

[@Yanramich]

Same with Extra Credits

[@noodles5438]

Семён Маликов Literally any time a KZbinr is doing a video and they have to bring something up about animals and they don’t know anything about them they just call him a say “You want a cameo?”

[@chancerobinson5112]

As someone who played chess with the grandson of Sanford B. Dole, whose first job was picking pineapple on the island of Lanai, and who went to elementary school with a great-great grandson of the first sugar planters on the island of Kauai, the sale of that land was a SHAM. The Hawaiians didn’t understand the gravity of the contracts they were entering into. It was legal but, it was a sham.

[@Argos-xb8ek]

What gets me is that it was their own people that screwed them over.

[@bruh-zs2xp]

WhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaAAAAaaaaaAaAAaAAaaaaaAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat

[@twistedxknights]

The common Hawaiian had no concept of land ownership as they relied on the Alii to take care of them. So to go from that to private land ownership it was meant to do what it did. Take the land from the native population

[@sojourner.]

@@Argos-xb8ek It was the same for slavery in Africa until the Scramble in the 1800's. Local African countries willingly sold their own people - and those of rival tribes and countries that they warred with - into subjugation. Same with the Aztecs. And the Mongolians. And the Irish. And the Chinese. And the Arabs. And the Vikings. And the Romans. And the... you get the point.

[@mgway4661]

So take it back from them

[@silvertheelf]

Him:”WHAT AM I GOING TO DO WITH TWO PINEAPPLES!” Me:”eatem, why not?”

[@alexanderhoraitis6801]

Woudnt that mean he's eating the other...person?

[@amehak1922]

Why not Zoidberg?

[@Tengokujin]

18:14 "Sailor Jupiter was my favourite." I see that you, too, are a man of taste.

[@LordDio]

Sailor jupiter gang

[@aureumordinemprincipia9272]

Mars gang rise up

[@towada1066]

taste would be Sailor Mars,... she's a shrine maiden ... jeez!

[@weenieboi3536]

@@aureumordinemprincipia9272 MARS GANG

[@jameswitherow5149]

I've always been partial to Sailor Mercury; then again, I tend to go for the brainy types. Mars is cute too. Hell, they're all cute. Jailbait, but cute. Get it straight people; the Sailor Scouts were between the ages of 14-17 at the very least. I do believe that Jupiter was the eldest.

[@iammrbeat]

I have seen Moana 52 times. Not because I wanted to. I thought I could escape the film by coming to your channel. I thought wrong.

[@e-towncoz9897]

Dude I’ve seen it 4 times in one class alone last year

[@e-towncoz9897]

(Spanish 1)

[@SECONDQUEST]

Good to see you Mr. Beat.

[@myca.]

Hey! Funny seeing you here; I just discovered your channel. Keep it tip top, cowboy

[@JonatasAdoM]

Mr. Beat Never seen it. I'm scared now

[@6ucket]

I fell asleep roughly 10 videos ago, to my recollection to the Armenian genocide, and when I woke up Tier zoo was talking but I was still on this channel. I refreshed the page like 3 times before I realized it was a collab.

[@KysonChannell]

Gotta turn off that autoplay boi

[@heronimousbrapson863]

Captain Cook also landed on the west coast of Vancouver Island at Nootka Sound. He also helped navigate the British troops up the Saint Lawrence River in Quebec on their way to defeating the French at the Battle of the Plains of Abraham in 1759. He really got around.

[@iammrbeat]

Haha, nice Tier Zoo cameo!

[@DragonCity2videoaula]

How has no one replied

[@samalamadingdong9775]

I love your videos Mr. Beat!!

[@piguyalamode164]

Ah yes, the state of the Humuhumunukunukuapua'a. It is very interesting how the anglicized versions of native languages without writing tend to have a lot of vowels. Like the Haudenosaunee confederacy(aka the Iroquois confederacy). This is probably because the people who first tried to make a written version of the language were like "screw it, just spell it how it sounds. I am sure that it won't be confusing in a hundred years."

[@ffc1a28c7]

That's objectively the best way to make an alphabet.

[@MikeJones-ye6li]

​@@ffc1a28c7 There is no objectively best way to make a language. Get out of here with that ethnocentrist-ass take.

[@antboy9252]

Tfw you realize Hawaii could have warned the rest of us about anime, hentai, and waifus but didn't

[@HBKnowItAll]

Antboy 925 those things were invented by the US by annexing Japan.

[@TheRealFiveName]

Anime isn’t that bad, but the side affects that come with it are horrible

[@youcanthandlethetruth8873]

A war crime if there ever was one.

[@timothymclean]

@@TheRealFiveName Let's be honest about what we mean. Anime isn't that bad, it's just a cool aesthetic adopted by assholes. (And other people.)

[@bookmew1081]

What's wrong with anime? I watched it for my entire life & turned out fine, I watched plenty of Pokemon & Sailor Moon possibly before I can remember. I added several more series to the list of what I watched when I was still a young girl & even would wear sailor uniforms when I was in early grade levels. What were the side effects other than addiction? Not sure who the people Timothy McLean is referring to are, although I practically identify as though I were a generic anime background character even now that I'm 25.

[@RobD-jq7ry]

I love that this channel gives an accurate depiction of history. Most channels are either excusing evil deeds or condemning them with zero context.

[@legendre007]

Mr KnowingBetter, the corporation Sega was founded not in Japan, but in Honolulu by three white men. Its name, "SeGa," was short for "Service Games," because the company made slot machines for military bases. When gambling was outlawed on Hawaiian military bases, the three founders relocated the company to Japan, where they merged their own company with that of pachinko entrepreneur David Rosen. Executives who were brought to the company by Rosen were the ones who made Sega invest in video games.

[@GnuReligion]

That is all very interesting. Strange pachinko doesn't replace slots entirely, as it is much more visually interesting ... and addictive.

[@diegodankquixote-wry3242]

What a twist!

[@Odinsday]

These videogame companies have really weird histories. Like a how Nintendo was an adult playing card company before the 60’s hit.

[@alohadubs7683]

legendre007 really? I knew Service Games was based in Hawaii, but I never made the connection between SErvice GAmes and SEGA.

[@HsienKoMeiLingFormerYANG]

I Imagine SEGA only release their title as pachinko game just like Konami did simply.

[@qui9]

This channel is getting better and better. That Tier Zoo collab though! Ah! Love it!

[@johnjamesbaldridge867]

Completely agree. Was going to say the exact same thing.

[@eNodeTG]

+1

[@thederpyblockthedb522]

The "apostrophe" is called an 'okina

[@AvrahamYairStern]

It's a glottal stop as well, and the `ōkina also isn't actually an apostrophe, the symbol is more upside down than an apostrophe.

[@tomasrosser3433]

Yah Hawaiian! Das what I saying! Something as simple as that!

[@tomasrosser3433]

@@AvrahamYairStern dis guy smart!

[@ShaneDocPuff]

Navy brat myself and grew up in Ewa Beach from 1980 when I was 5 till 92 at 17. It is still due to my own servicer in the Army the longest place I have ever lived. My brother and I are going back for the first time since 92 this November 2021. You did a great job at breaking down the history. It really is the only state that I myself know so much about.

[@RealBradMiller]

Did you live on base? We lived on Eono Way in 2000. I loved exploring the mostly empty neighborhoods and seeing the parasitic vines and plants taking over, and the old bunker they tried to fence off. Have a safe trip!

[@ShaneDocPuff]

@@RealBradMiller We lived in Iroquois point, Which is basically a naval housing development. It does have a small marine base on it which is kept separate from the housing development.

[@TheDurentator2000]

“My previous ferret, Wheatley...” noooooooooo D:

[@fuzzydunlop7928]

No no, it's okay. He just went back to his home planet. :/

[@Scott_Raynor]

Polynesian history and culture is so under appreciated

[@Terestrasz]

This is why Moana was such a big thing. Aside from that it had ACTUAL Polynesian people doing the voicework, they treated the source material (tbqh it's not an adaptation of any particular story) with respect and made absolutely sure to conduct their research. Polynesian-americans are probably treated the best out of any native group in the US... and even then they don't have a lot of presence in popular culture because Hawai'i is so far away from where all the films are. (And even the stuff filmed in Hawai'i tends to... well, mostly focus on the white people or is obviously **NOT** filmed there.)

[@jamess3417]

Terestrasz which Moana movie?

[@iccherrypiez]

one of my favorite thing about this channel is how you bring in collabs. its never widely announced in the video then it hits like a great surprise.

[@CelticVictory]

What I like about this video is that it takes a rational approach to discussing history. It dispenses with a particular narrative and just informs on what we actually know.

[@hughgreentree]

My wife could probably make you that lunch...but hands off. I am glad I found her first. She says she loves Hawaii because it was the first place she went where she looks like just about everyone else.

[@hexx2211]

D-did they really call it *_Japanimation?_*

[@coffeestainedwreck]

my, my, how the times have changed

[@FeliX-TobiYahs-C]

Nani?

[@alexernst9448]

It was Japanese animation, and they didn't have another name for it yet. Contractions were inevitable.

[@April_a26]

I still call it that lol

[@75aces97]

That was just a colloquial term for animated features, as distinct from US, Canadian, or European studios.

[@milascave2]

I did some of my growing up in Hawaii too. Just a couple of points. Kamehamaha is said to have "united the Hawaiian Islands." This uniting was done in much the same way as the United Kingdoms and the United States were United, with a little diplomacy and a lot of brute force. I've heard the story of how Hawaii lost it's religion more than once, and I never heard that Kamahamha did it. Rather, it was his widow and another powerful woman who did it, by eating with the men, which was Kabu (Taboo) before that. There were likely two religions. First, Hawaiian women were forbidden to eat the best stuff they had, Banana, Coconuts, and pork. Making them eat separately made it easier to enforce that. Second, Hawaain's were not expected to be monogamous. Evan Kamehameha wives could fool around, and his first wife took full advantage of that. So he created his own Kapu, not against adultery in general, but against any other man touching his first wife in particular. Presumably, this Kaapu lasted after his death. So, deprived of sex and of the best foods, they ended this system and tried to eradicate the religion, tearing down the temples except for the stones, which were to hard lift. This can be compared to what was done after the French Revolution (happening at about the same time) and under Communism. But as in those cases, it didn't totally work. The religion went underground, turned into a more decentralized pagan system called "Kahunaism" which survives to this day. Also, in Jr, High, I noticed that the girls and boys ate separately, which they did not do in California. I'm told that in Bar-b-ques it is the same way. I can't help but suspect that this is a remnant of the old kapu. Finally, whatever it meant at first, in modern times, "Howli" is definitely a derogatory term for white people. It doesn't apply to Hawaii's many Asians. I cut the last day of school because everybody knew that the last day of every semester was "Kill Howli day." A smaller, less well-known holiday called "Slap Jap" day was celebrated on the next to the last day of the semester. Hawaii's paradise is not free of racial tension.

[@Amazatastic]

Hawaiian pidgin sounds so interesting and nice wow

[@andreawalker8343]

RIP Wheatley. Him swimming in the river is one of the cutest things I've ever seen.

[@KhAnubis]

Everyone‘s pointing out the Moana references. I‘m grinning at the unexpected Star Trek reference. EDIT: Okay, you‘re basically becoming the reference channel (still great video)

[@melvinlinderoth7108]

James Tiberius Kirk :)

[@KhAnubis]

Maybe, we'll see...

[@gearandalthefirst7027]

Bling Boy Moana is from a fictional combination of all the pacific islands but most of the voice actors are from Hawai'i

[@Giganfan2k1]

As long as the references land I can't com-plan. I was doing a phonetic thing, it worked.

[@X-Kid_Z]

Great video. I was a Navy brat too and grew up in Hawaii. I'm Filipino though so people just assumed I was local. I miss KIKU TV, I used to watch DBZ, Crayon Shin Chan, and this Japanese show that had a panel of people talking about things like croquettes. Half the time in my Hawaiian history classes were spend telling ghost stories, lol.

[@SmartVideosJarkaWatched]

CONSPIRACY THEORY: 'Knowing Better'-guy is actually a phantom-personality of Howie Mandel (not 'a secret identity'---one falls asleep (or totally blanks out or something) before the other emerges, and neither knows about the other ... have you ever seen them both in the same room? case closed)

[@herkles1]

Considering you said you like to talk at length about Hawaiian History, I am a bit surprised that you didn't talk about the abuses under the plantation system and how much power was concentrated in the hands of the big five during the territorial period or how workers fought back through strikes and direct action against these unjust conditions(see the Hawaiian Suger Strike of 1946) which often led to their deaths, see the Hilo Massacre or the Hanapepe massacre. All of this plus the New Deal, ww2 and its victory lead to the Democratic Revolution of 1954 that brought about its end; which is why Hawaii often votes democratic today. .

[@cambs0181]

US history cannot be seen as doing anything bad.

[@quadeevans6484]

@@cambs0181 at least to him

[@moistmeter3634]

@@cambs0181 um what school did u go to.

[@legendre007]

That was very accurate pidgin. 😊

[@djdjsjfishing4380]

Ikr

[@Odinsday]

You betta respec ina o you get a fals crac.

[@biasedconfirmations]

Too bad that won't stop idiots who have never been to Hawaii (or could even point it out on a map of the fifty stares) and dishonest race hustlers from decrying that character as cultural appropriation and brown face. :(

[@thegondola9877]

>pepe derivative avatar >persona based on unfunny meme >echo parentheses in about section of channel >decrying modern social movements yep, this sure ticks all the boxes of someone arguing in good faith and interested in a productive discussion, better take em seriously!

[@jw4277]

@@The.Hawaiian.Kingdom it was accurate enough for someone who hasn't been in hawaii for a long time

[@madcat789]

"Japanimation?" That's something I've never heard of. Jupiter? Good pick. Mars is my favorite.

[@amehak1922]

Anime, same thing

[@kittykittybangbang9367]

@@amehak1922 Anime is just Japanese for animation. There for anything that is animated is anime. Japanimation is just Japanese animation.

[@amehak1922]

@@kittykittybangbang9367 I know

[@amehak1922]

@@ThexDynastxQueen I grew up in the 80s

[@ThexDynastxQueen]

@@amehak1922 Oh cool, usually fans I meet are younger than me as I grew up in the 90s. Been wondering about something tho, did some consider Japanimation as strictly adult? I remember a video store and maybe FYE having a section for it where everything was borderline if not outright hentai lol.

[@konohasaiyajin]

Sailor Jupiter? A true man of culture here.

[@JYip-tt9oc]

You’re forgetting to mention that foreign advisors are the ones who convinced the king to split land that way for the great mahele. It is the haoles who played the policies in their favor

[@mojojoji5493]

J. Yip yep committee of safety too all white male politicians that wanted Hawaii

[@kealiiballao]

Not an apostrophe, it’s called a glottal stop. In Hawaiian, ‘okina.

[@despaahana]

Mahalo for using them correctly in your comment! 🤙

[@despaahana]

@@kjh4112 both of the characters you used look the same. Apostrophes, if you zoom in on them are shake like a 9, the okina is shaped like a 6. Usually called a "left single quotation mark"

[@tacosmexicanstyle7846]

Kealii Ballao Isn't the glottal stop the name of the sound itself rather than the punctuation? Cockney English speakers use the glottal stop but it's not written, for example when they say 'water' (war-er)

[@zachariahjonahmaldonado5897]

An apostrophe merely indicates an omited sound. Such as contractions, did not becomes didn't. A glottal stop is a specific mechanism of speach and sound, such as the t (or abscense thereof) the way a cockney says 'Battle'. More over, a glottal stop is written like a funny question mark without the dot.

[@PixelBytesPixelArtist]

*The linguists joined the game*

[@salenamarie8492]

I’m in Maui now and I’m so sad I didn’t know this before I arrived!! Thank you so much for the knowledge!!!

[@eliegbert8121]

5:05 Rank F: Weeaboos. this dude is awesome

[@UltraNyan]

REEEEEEEEEE

[@iceberg4240]

Did anyone else see the thing about Weeaboos

[@salokin3087]

When I first watched ya, you had maybe 6k, now it’s over 100k, insanely impressive and welll deserved

[@mattgreen5800]

Awesome and unexpected collab, love seeing tierzoo teaming up with other youtubers for short skits

[@davidkim6542]

you forgot to mention US marines surrounding the palace and imprisoned the Queen. And then US claimed that Hawaii "JOINED" the US.

[@godblessamerica8117]

David Kim at least we let you keep the ugly useless part of “your” island. White man comes to conquer. Let the past speak for itself. We took your queen and you were to stupid or weak to even try and fight.

[@davidkim6542]

@@godblessamerica8117 you will be the minority on the mainland as well in the next 20 yrs :) conquer that

[@godblessamerica8117]

David Kim check to see who is running the country local bradah it ain’t hawaiians it white men. No matter if we outnumbered

[@davidkim6542]

Running the country ? Haoles are the majority there.. No worries haole, the mainland will look just like hawaii very soon. You will be immigrating back to europe

[@davidkim6542]

@@godblessamerica8117 i have nothing against haoles. Individual person has nothing to do with the past history. I dont even know why you took this so personally. Did you personally imprison the queen and annex hawaii ?

[@JomasterTheSecond]

Now I'm hungry for Spam. Thanks, Hawaii.

[@KiraSlith]

I eat it every day. It's expensive, but good stuff.

[@dar-nakkallig]

Kira Slith yes, Spam is good...

[@23mxk]

@@KiraSlith Do you live in Hawaii? A can of spam is like two to three dollars in most parts of the continental USA.

[@KiraSlith]

@@23mxk $3 a can normally here in Northern California, that's no small a cost for something that lasts only as parts of 2 meals.

[@23mxk]

@@KiraSlith Yeah, I guess if you don't eat meat with all of your meals it might bump up the overall cost, but few others meats would cost less for 3/4 lb. I have trouble spending less than $10 on a decently sized dinner, so I always felt like I was saving a buck when I just grilled a whole can of spam lol.

[@ObtwB]

Everything you said was really great and I'm really glad you made this video. That being said, I have a few issues with what was said: 1) Personally I learned about the unification by studying the battles Kamehameha and his men fought during that time. No one I've ever met here in Hawaii was under the impression that the process was peaceful. 2) Western religions weren't forced upon the Alii (physical abuse of the Makaainana by missionaries, however, is well documented) and land wasn't illegally 'stolen' from the Native Hawaiian people. That being said, the Makaainana had no choice in either matter due to their lack of western education and experience compared to the Alii. It is also worth mentioning that the Makaainana had lived under the feudal/caste system for all of their history and a sudden change in those systems was not an easy adjustment for many to make. 3) The purpose of the Bayonet Constitution was not to curb corruption. Yes, Kalakaua was extremely corrupt and the monarchy--for the most part--was plagued by mediocre leadership. But what you didn't mention is that Kalakaua was also forced to appoint members of the Hawaiian League--rich foreign businessmen--to his now much more politically powerful cabinet. The Bayonet Constitution was about granting political power to foreign businessmen who had their own economic interest in mind.

[@TheItoogami]

This is exactly what I'm trying to express, "Basic Fact - THOSE WHO WEILD POWERFUL AND INFLUENTIAL POSITIONS... SHALL FOREVER ENDEAVOR TO EMPOWER THEIR POSITION AT THE COST OF THOSE WHOM THEY SERVE, AND SUBJUGATE THOSE BY WHICH THEY CONSIDER SUB-PAR RELATING TO THEIR AGENDA i.e. SUBJUGATE THE ORIGINAL PEOPLE OF SAID TERRITORY/KINGDOM. OCCUPY SAID TERRITORY FOR AN UNDISCLOSED NUMBER OF YEARS, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, WITHHOLDING COMPOUNDED GAINS, FINANCIAL BENEFITS TO SAID SUBJUGATED TERRITORY." That's the European Way. Where do you think all these White Folk came from? Fairy Tales? Seriously.

[@sojourner.]

In response to point one, mainlander Americans are definitely under that impression, not local Hawaiians. I was until this video, let me tell you why: in California, that's what is currently taught in US history: peaceful coexistence and kumbaya until the evil white dudes showed up and ruined everything illegally, when in fact it didn't have anything to do with race or illegality, and everything to do with profit and friendship, or at least, profit and cordiality (i.e. British and Hawaiian families being besties, Britain not conquering Hawaii like they normally did to island nations, Kamehameha adopting a variant of the British flag as a token of gratitude and trust, the Hawaiian League forming from anyone who wanted to join to overthrow the corrupt king who lined his pockets with cash, Queen Lili'uokalani trusting the US gov't, etc.)

[@piguyalamode164]

Also, the formation of the cabinet was an absolutely ridiculous moment. I did a research paper and found out that the cabinet gained power by locking themselves in the palace and not letting anyone in. And america was like "Hmm... who do we help? The sovereign or this random group of people with questionable interests? the random group of people of course." Then Hawaii was a republic

[@bashpr0mpt244]

He's a racist bigot, so he always pushes his subversive agenda into all his videos unfortunately, at a cost of accuracy.

[@samos343guiltyspark]

@@TheItoogami Not just Europeans, also all foreigners regardless of skin colour.

[@UTubeGlennAR]

I too grew up in HI do to my 22 year long career Navy Dad that spent 15 of those years at Pearl. I was even hatched at Tripler in 1949 and raised in Waianae and Pearl City Peninsula. I live in PA now since both my Mum n Dad wanted to go back to there roots when he retired. Actually the two cats you see in my channel's picture are named Kuuipo n Kalah..... My first years out of my parents house of influance were in Waianae, thus I spoke pigon and had to be taught English as a second language as a forth grader..... Aloha, Glennnnn

[@thedukeofchutney468]

Ay my family is from Waianae! I grew up on the main land, but my mother, grandmother, and great grandmother all lived there!

[@Demon88061]

That Hawaiian stereotype at the beginning seems like a genuine and respectful portrayal of an aggressive Hawaiian, and that it is why it was funny, thanks for the laugh KB!

[@brycevo]

Thank you so much for covering this. I'm glad you're helping spread Hawaiian culture and History. All with a touch of Local kine Humor and Tier Zoo. Thank you.

[@bobby8012]

i hope he spreads american culture next

[@KINGSTONSPRIDE]

Bobby just turn the tv on.

[@KINGSTONSPRIDE]

A lot of it is wrong.

[@sfrealestatedealmaker6001]

Bobby - Obesity, war & McDonalds 😂👍🏼

[@KINGSTONSPRIDE]

R B yes it's a problem in america.

[@carlosspencer5369]

I'm a native Chamorro and I love Hawaii so much, it's a mix of my home of Guam and the states. Hawaii has such a rich culture and such amazing wildlife and hiking, it's really one of the best places in the world. Also the Ukulele is Hawaii's instrument and the Ukulele is my love, great video. Aloha!

[@Gerardo4K]

Take Hawaii and "upwards hand gesture"... I'm dead hahaha great video !!

[@LOSTONITALL]

I live in Hilo! We have a beautiful house just a couple hundred feet from the cliffs of Hilo Bay. Great video!

[@legendre007]

Since you used _Adam Ruins Everything_ as a foil to your points in your Columbus video, did you also see Adam Conover's video about the overthrow? I was disappointed by how shallow Adam Conover's segment on it was. One would get the impression from _Adam Ruins Everything_ that the same movement that lobbied for statehood was the same people who favored annexation to the US and having Hawaii remain a US territory, rather than those being rival political factions.

[@Idontwantyourcookie]

Yeah I was surprised by the lack of acknowledgement to the ARE vid about this, especially since you had already made the Columbus parallel.

[@moviechic07]

It is a complex topic and it is not easily explainable in a short segment.

[@biasedconfirmations]

Once you realize how dishonest Adam/his writers are, it's hard to watch other episodes and not start to wonder what else he is lying or being purposefully deceitful about. Never take anybody's word as fact. Even with Knowing Better, take his gun video for instance (tons of strawmanning, lots of opinion stated as fact, demonizing one side of the debate, and even some straight up bunk) and you know he tries his best to be as unbiased as one man can be. Unfortunately our minds don't think objectively, we are subjective beings and confirmation bias (even amongst experts) is ubiquitous. The difference is that Adam and his team are purposefully deceitful to push an agenda or ideology while Knowing Better is trying his best to be unbiased. (even if being unbiased is impossible)

[@melodyclark1944]

Adam is entertaining and does teach facts, but do not take anything it says too seriously. For example when the man says, "What gold?" while wearing a necklace the looks suspiciously like gold.

[@mattjohnston2]

Pickle Rick refresh my memory...what did he get so wrong in the gun regulation video? I thought it was a pretty well done presentation. Each of these style shows is for entertainment, with the added benefit of getting to learn something. None should be taken completely at face value (there are plenty of things that I don't agree with on this channel), but you're right...I have a hard time watching Adam now as well. For here, a better example might be the 4k resolution video. THAT one, he missed the mark pretty wide.

[@george5954]

Dude congrats on 100k! That totally came outta nowhere. Been following you a long while man, always hoped you'd take off (didn't think it would happen so rapidly though lol)

[@tedarcher9120]

Jorgino yeah, that was sicc

[@squarerootof2]

Too many sjws these days. Easy to capture that audience if you can string two sentences together.

[@kimmimcknight3417]

As i was born in the Territory of Hawaii (that's actually on the envelope with my birth certificate inside, cool, eh?!) in March 1958, i found this absolutely fascinating. I was born in Queen Kapiolani's Maternity & Gynecological Hospital.. i hear they've shortened that name considerably since then. Lol. I had a duplicate with the Queen's picture on the outside with the Hawaiian phrase which in English means, "To Save and Increase The Race". I've since lost that duplicate. :'( I was an Air Force brat and we lived at Hickam AF Base before we moved to Yigo, Guam when i was about a year and a half old; came to the States when i was two and a half. I've always wanted to return to my birthplace but can't now due to health issues, so i'll be living vicariously through you as well as other people who have videos about Hawaii. SUBBED ya!! This was a very impressive and informative vid. Mahalo! Btw, i'm very sorry about Wheatley. I also adore ferrets.

[@moviemaestro800]

Nostalgic chills for the use of the main title music from the Eyewitness nature series, during the TierZoo segment.

[@hotuorbit]

Thank you for revealing the name of the nature series! I saw those back in grade school and loved them. I always remembered the intro tune, but could never remember the title of the show. Thank you so much!

[@Kevin_Tapia]

5:04 Oh cool that looks like a TierZoo thing 10:14 oooooOOOOOOHHHHH

[@mcpaasec420]

Thank you so much. I wasnt gonna go through 20m of some random dude talking about hawai

[@MonanzaFTW]

Your videos remind me of my most important belief. The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance; it is the illusion of knowledge. Thanks for doing what you do and keeping it unbiased.

[@nobodyjr6463]

I love your videos. Ice rewatched this several times and it's still informative and hilarious.

[@trestonmalone5072]

I think that you’re doing a great job in getting people to become interested in the topics you talk about. I do respectfully want to correct you on some of what you said! 1. Many Kānaka(Native Hawaiians) & Kama‘āina pronounced Hawai‘i as Huh-Vai-‘-i. I’ve been told the W can be interchangeable in Hawai‘i so I go between pronouncing as as V or W. 2. The “apostrophe” is called an ‘okina and is a glottal stop just as you described. 3. You forgot to mention the kahakō, a macron that indicates what letter to elongate. That is an official letter in written ‘Ōlelo Hawai‘i. 4. Kalākaua was forced AT GUN POINT to sign the bayonet constitution in the wee hours of the morning. 5. I think it’s important to mention that Iolani Palace actually had running electricity in it before the White House. Lastly… 6. HAOLE is a word to describe those not born in Hawai‘i, you are absolutely correct. However, it was NEVER meant to be a derogatory term used towards white people. The only way it could be used in a negative connotation is when there is an adjective like, “dumb” “stupid” “fucking” in front of it. Also, yeah I used to watch Sailor Moon before heading off to school in the morning. Much like Usagi, I’d be late almost all the time. LOL Mahalo Nui Loa for taking the time to generate interest.

[@jakej3939]

Just wanted to say I’m so happy for u dude been watching for so long and it’s genuinely like made me so surprised and kinda sad to see how few subscribers you had like how you make such high quality and amazing educational videos that but it’s nice to see the growth your channel has gotten recently. Keep up the good work

[@adamatari]

Having worked in real estate... The history of real estate is savvy, rick jerks taking land from desperate, poor suckers. The catch is that the rich, savvy jerks turn into suckers sometimes. This goes back to the very beginning of states and hierarchy, where societies went from having everyone/no-one being landowners to having the king or nobles be the owner. That said, the great mahele may not have gone down exactly that way - I remember a guy from one of the Kingdom groups giving a lecture in one of my classes (UH alum) where he put up slides of land claimants from actual documents of the time. It was actually quite a list of Hawaiian names. So there is argument of whether the great mahele was actually the key moment... But whether it happened at that moment or shortly afterward when sugar plantation owners showed up with a combination of money and intimidation power to separate people from land, the effect was the same - the poor everyman was separated from the land, which fell into a few hands. In a sense, the ali'i change but the system doesn't. Parts of Europe such as Scotland also had similar events, called "enclosures". Marx wrote the half of Capital nobody talks about explaining how this process went down.

[@tianwang1630]

I learn more about hawaii in this 20 mins than my three trips to hawaii before, glad i watched this before my fourth trip.

[@lukewind13]

Just found this channel and its so informative, I love it!

[@Junedude433]

Last time I was this early, Hawai'i was still a kingdom.

[@jakobodachocobo]

In around 4 months you gained over 120k subs got sponsor ships and are doing collabs with large youtubers, Im impressed

[@1grizzlyrizzo]

The town I'm from has little pineapples on the posts of its fences, so I wanted to know more about the pineapple plantations of old. As with more English towns like Bournemouth, we have a questionable previous source of revenue. So I landed on your very informative and well presented video, and I now know alot of cool facts and where at least two pineapples came from.

[@billc.4584]

Informative and clever as per usual. Thank you.

[@Mars_junior]

The Tier Zoo bit was great. I actually learned of your channel as I was watching his. You were in the recommended videos section.

[@legendre007]

Mr. KnowingBetter, I appreciate your approaching this topic with much more objectivity than I usually see. But Sanford Dole wasn't the founder of Hawaiian Pineapple Co. (now Dole Foods); that was his Harvard-educated cousin, James D. Dole. Although James Dole was Sanford's cousin, he wasn't very popular among the missionary families that controlled the Big Five; he was still considered an unwelcome interloper. The company's name was changed to Dole only _after_ James Dole's creditors (from the Big Five landholding companies) took control of the company and stripped him of his managerial authority.

[@aaronwilson9261]

what does this have to do with the basics to Economics?

[@nykcarnsew2238]

Aaron Wilson who said it did?

[@miker6452]

Glad I discovered your video, learned a whole lot. Good work dude!

[@anna-laurahocker5570]

Awesome video, both educational and entertaining. Not an easy feat.

[@wholelifeahead]

Kamehameha 1 was the first Teaboo

[@alexn.2901]

Tea is Chinese so.....

[@qv8281]

Alex N. Teawithmilkboo then

[@brycevo]

I Love that Pidgin Braddah. That was beyond Amazing! Thanks, Ah. And stay cool Local boy!

[@lonoperry9993]

Your pidgin sucks, not funny, only shows your weak attempt to cope with inner trauma and drama of being confused about who you are... Drowning in an identity of a wannabe white history-buff is good way to deal with your struggle... U know da kine

[@Da808Legend]

NOT LOCAL! jus a wanabe. “eh brah jus because u wen grow up in hawaii, no make you local!”

[@777hobo777]

I discovered your channel because of the Christopher Columbus video. Then in your Veteran's video you mentioned going to high school in Hawaii and I was like that's so cool since I still live in Hawaii. You know how Hawaii people are...they get excited when they find out someone else is from or lived in Hawaii for a time. I know you didn't go to my school because we didn't have ROTC but I think you were in high school the same time I was (early 2000s). Anyway, I'm going to continue our parasocial relationship from behind my computer screen. In all seriousness, your videos are really interesting and entertaining and you've got yourself a new subscriber. EDIT: Now at 8:33 I know we most definitely did not go to the same high school! Your alma mater was "Hawaii far." Not far when you think about it in terms of Mainland driving but far for Hawaii standards XD

[@jaymata1218]

so glad i found this channel, i learn cool stuff all the time :)

[@grimtheghastly8878]

The linguistic term for the apostrophe is called the gluttal stop. You're welcome.

[@SpruceOaks]

Holy moly - you're channel is blowing up! I subscribed like two weeks ago when I found you looking for some references for a WWII Pacific Theater discussion I was having and you had like 80k. I had no idea you only had 15k only 1 month ago. Great job!

[@diabeticalien3584]

Very informative, love your vids!

[@jerobriggs6861]

I didn't really know anything about Hawaiian history so I really enjoyed your video. Thanks.

[@dark_fire_ice]

Could you do a video (or series) about the Partition of Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth, because it's kind of sad

[@ShakaP7]

I’m a military wife currently living in Hawaii! I loved this video and I learned a lot of Hawaiian history. The highways make so much sense now!😄

[@ichinii808]

This is a great video on Hawaii and Hawaiian history! It's super interesting!

[@chelseaoocandy]

I love your content, just found your channel. Fellow haole here, I grew up in Laie on Oahu and now live in Haleiwa. The north shore of Oahu is very "country" so you don't nessasarily need to go to the outer islands to experience that. I've been to other islands but Oahu will always be where my heart is, plenty of beautiful nature and waterfalls here too. We might be close to the same age, I remember Pokemon coming out and loving it until it blew up in popularity. Sailor Moon stuck, loved it. Kalua pig was my favorite school lunch too (although as a child I thought it was called Kailua pig 😂)

[@cmarin9109]

-Kamehameha: I Love You Britain! -British Empire: Do we know each other?

[@SlackKeyMinecraft]

Please do a video on the modern Hawaiian independence movement. Also I went to a very Hawaiian school so it's good to hear the not so nice side of the monarchs

[@TheMactearz]

One of my favorite KZbin Pages. Thanks

[@sandrojones8068]

The British constitutional monarchy is hardly confusing.

[@chrissmith635]

Love the channel. You should do a series debunking Adam ruins everything episodes

[@nnamdi8775]

0:44 Take a shot every time you hear that sentence on KZbin

[@Nakubb]

there is not this many alcohol in my house) ...and i'm Russian

[@gligurr]

Nakubb lmao

[@richardgallagher61]

The Bu' La'ia reference makes me chuckle so much. Haaa-waii! I love Hawaii so much. Lived there for 8 years.

[@andrewxc1335]

The pineapple bits made me laugh WAY too hard.

[@FatErgosCureCancer]

Loool that's the DK eyewitness theme around 10:00 at the mongoose part

[@beetlejuicejohn6905]

Theres a long list of impact non-native species introductions that you miss. It goes back to the first Polynesians/Hawaiians continuing to current day. Intentional or not, there have been numerous impact introductions throughout Hawaii's history.

[@OssoryOverSeas]

This is so well done.

[@petersdotter1]

have lived on O'ahu for 50 years and even taught some Hawn History at King Inter in Kane'ohe, and yet, I learned something new from you. Mahalo