In 1906, Thomas Edison released "Hawaiian Islands," a silent, black-and-white movie that portrays life in Hawaii in the early 20th century and features hard-working sugarcane laborers. They started off working in the sugar plantations but, slowly and steadily, got to the top of the social hierarchy.
The majority left the island of Madeira in search of better lives and ended up raising their families on the islands of the Pacific.
The Portuguese were probably the first haoles from the Old Continent to step on Hawaiian soil. In the past, it had simple descriptive meanings and was even used to identify the children of the European immigrants who arrived in Hawaii in the early 1820s. According to historians, the origin of the word "haole" precedes the arrival of Captain James Cook in the Hawaiian archipelago in 1778.Īlthough today it is considered mainly a pejorative word, it has not always been like that.
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