Hawaii was colonized by the Spanish because, in a four-year period, there were over 8,000 farmworkers, immigrated from Spain. They all came to work in the Sugar Cane industry in Hawaii between 1907 and 1913, with the promise of gold coins for wages, free housing and acreage of land, health care, and education. These ships were cargo ships, and not fit for human cargo.
A lot of research has been done on tourism in Hawaii and commodities and racial tolerance. Hawaii wants tourists to have a particular image of how luaus and hula girls are viewed and how they are the main entertainment in Hawaii. Hawaii also wanted to make sure tourists are able to travel to Hawaii and not be exposed to the troubled racial history and American conquest over Native Hawaiians. Many Native Americans hate Americans because they believe that Americans are trying to separate the past events that make up Hawaii to fake the idea of what Hawaii really is and where it came from. Hawaii is being looked at differently so it can attract tourists to the state.
In 1946 there was a sugar strike and many of the people who worked were employed from all over the world. It was a massive labor enterprise and it depended on cheap workers when the owners were making over $160 million on annual sugar and pineapple crops. Each worker made 24 cents an hour and the owners knew a strike would happen so they decided to gather more workers to replace the others. A 79-day strike happened to help end racial and ethnic discrimination. Eventually, they were able to become a part of the union and receive a raise.